Executive Committee

The association is managed by an elected Executive Committee of no more than twelve honorary officers and members.
Mary Phelan
Chair

Mary Phelan lectures in Spanish and translation at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University (DCU) where she is the Chairperson of the MA in Translation Studies and the MSc in Translation Technology. From 2004 to 2009 she ran the Graduate Certificate in Community Interpreting programme at DCU. Mary is particularly interested in the lack of regulation of interpreters who work in garda stations and courts and the lack of provision of interpreters to work with GPs and in hospitals and other medical settings in Ireland. Mary has carried out extensive research on the historical provision of interpreters in the courts, particularly for the Irish language, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Trish Van Bolderen
Secretary

Trish Van Bolderen holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance (York University) and a master’s and PhD in Translation Studies (University of Ottawa). She has over 20 years’ experience as a language professional with expertise in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, and she currently works as an English-language reviser and a translator (French and Spanish into English). Trish is also an active Translation Studies scholar, whose research focuses on literary self-translation, primarily within Canada. In addition to being a member of the ATII, she is affiliated with organisations such as the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) and the Canadian Association for Translation Studies (CATS).

Graziano Ciulli
Treasurer

Graziano Ciulli is a freelance translator from English into Italian and a Professional Member of the ATII. He holds a postgraduate Diploma in Technical and Specialised Translation and an MA in Linguistics and Translation Studies from the University of Westminster (London), where he also taught technical translation as a visiting lecturer for several years.

Annette Schiller

Annette Schiller is an ATII Certified Legal Translator (Ge to En). She has a B.A. (Mod) in French and Spanish (TCD), an MA in Translation Studies (German) (DCU) and a Diploma in Legal Studies (TU Dublin). She holds a PhD in Translation Studies from DCU. She teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate translation studies programmes at DCU. Annette is a member of BDÜ/Landesverband Bayern e.V. She is a former Chairperson of the ATII and former Chairperson of FIT Europe, the Regional Centre for Europe of the International Federation of Translators (FIT). She is currently Vice President of FIT.

Anne Larchet

Anne Larchet has been working as a freelance interpreter of Spanish and English since 2008. She interprets in the courts, police stations, hospitals, prisons as well as the immigration offices of ORAC and RAT. She has interpreting experience in diverse private enterprise areas such as civil engineering, book publishing and litigation. She has a BA (Hons) in Arabic and Spanish from UCD, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies from DCU and a Certificate in Spanish law from The Law Society of Ireland. She was a scholarship student at the American University Cairo, Egypt. Anne is Editor of the ATII Bulletin.

Sarah Jane Aberasturi

Sarah Jane Aberasturi is a Professional Member of the ATII and an ATII Certified Legal Translator (German and Spanish to English), and holds a B.A. (First Class Honours) in Applied Languages from Dublin City University. She launched her freelance career in Barcelona some 30 years ago, and translates largely on science and medicine, the arts and humanities. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate translation modules in DCU’s School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, and delivers ATII workshops on Certified Legal Translation. She is a practicing member (English<>Spanish) of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC). Other memberships include the German Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ) and the International Association of Translators and Writers in Medicine and Related Sciences (TREMÉDICA).

Miriam Watchorn

Miriam Watchorn MA, CLT, MATII, MCIL is a graduate of Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France and Dublin City University, Ireland. She also holds the Diploma in Translation awarded by the Chartered Institute of Linguists, UK. She has over 27 years’ experience in translation, specialising in legal and financial translation but also has a broad and diverse range of translation experience and interests. She teaches as a university lecturer in translation studies at Dublin City University, Ireland.

Victoria Moroz

Victoria Moroz has been working as an interpreter of Ukrainian, Spanish and English since 2005, first as an in-house interpreter and translator at large industrial companies in Donetsk, Ukraine, and UAE, and then as a freelance translator and interpreter (simultaneous and consecutive), with expertise in the public, private, not-for-profit and international media sectors in Kyiv, Ukraine, and the EU since 2014. Since spring 2020 she predominantly works online. She holds a Specialist Diploma in Translation and Interpreting from the Donetsk Open University (Ukraine). She was a scholarship student at the University of Cadiz, Spain. She was initiator and moderator of the Interpreting Track of the Ukrainian Translation Industry Conference in 2019-2021. Since April 2022 she is based in Naas, Ireland.

Cristina Barroso

Cristina Barroso is a graduate of Political Science (University of Granada/Science Po Bordeaux) and holds an MPhil in Literary Translation from Trinity College Dublin, where she is currently a PhD candidate in Translation Studies. Cristina’s research explores the possibilities of bridging the gap between the localisation industry and the literary translation market, through the study of story-rich video games, and electronic literature. Her interests include collaborative translation, translation quality and translation workflows. Cristina is a student member of the ITIA and works as a reviewer of literary translations, from English into Spanish.

Bríd Ní Fhlathúin

Bríd Ní Fhlathúin holds a BA in Irish Language and Literature (University of Galway), and an MA and PhD in Pure Mathematics (University of Galway and the University of East Anglia). In her time she has been a mathematics lecturer, a technical architect/strategist in the early days of internet banking, a restaurant owner and a linguist. She holds the Séala Fhoras na Gaeilge translation accreditation and is a professional member of ATII, focusing on legal and legislative translation and texts for teenagers and children. Bríd lives in the Conamara Gaeltacht.