Keiran J. Dunne

Keiran J. Dunne is an American translation scholar and has been a professor at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University (Ohio) since 2006 .

Life

Keiran Dunne earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Rochester (New York) before graduating from the University of Rennes 2 with a maîtrise and from the University of Strasbourg with a French university degree. He wrote his doctoral thesis in French Studies at Pennsylvania State University .

As a university lecturer and translation scholar, Dunne is primarily concerned with the field of software localization and the use of project, quality and terminology management solutions in the processing of corresponding translation projects. His goal is to develop pragmatic approaches for everyday translators. Dunne also includes machine translation and translation memories in his research and links them with his practical work as a freelance (software) translator for various American companies.

Memberships

Member of the American Translators Association ATA (since 2003)
Member of the Society for Technical Communication , since 2007
Member of the Institute of Localization Professionals
Member of the project management association Project Management Institute

Awards

Terminologist of the Year, SDL Flagman Award, 2005

Research priorities

Software localization , website localization and multimedia products
Machine translation , computer-aided translation
Project management for translation projects
Quality management in translation projects
Business and technical translations

Publications

(Ed.): Perspectives on Localization . John Benjamin, Amsterdam [u. a.] 2006 ISBN 90-272-3189-3
Together with Elena S. Dunne (Ed.): Translation and Localization Project Management: The Art of the Possible . John Benjamin, Amsterdam [u. a.] 2011 ISBN 90-272-3192-3

Web links

Kent State University Institute of Applied Linguistics: http://www.kent.edu/mcls/appling/index.cfm
Institute of Localization Professionals: http://www.tilponline.net/
Project Management Institute: http://www.pmi.org/

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Dunne, Keiran J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American translation scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

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