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• Survey of the FIT Committee for Information on the Status of the Translation & Interpretation Profession. 93 pages. Published by Fédération internationale des traducteurs (International Federation of Translators) in 2005. » Download the entire publication in pdf format.
• International Certification Study. 110 pages. Published by the American Translators Association in 2003.

Articles

"From the President." Monthly column in ATA Chronicle:

• Looking Back, Looking Ahead (November-December 2007) (View in pdf format)
• Who We Are, Who We Are Not (January 2008) (View in pdf format)
• On Statistics and Competition (February 2008) (View in pdf format)
• Strictly Strategy (March 2008) (View in pdf format)
• Public Relations (April 2008) (View in pdf format)
• Republic of Letters (May 2008) (View in pdf format)
• Regulation Vel Non (June 2008) (View in pdf format)
• Ornament in Prosperity and Refuge in Adversity (July 2008) (View in pdf format)
• ATA on the Hill (August 2008) (View in pdf format)
• ATA to Host XIX FIT World Congress (September 2008) (View in pdf format)
• It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows You (October 2008) (View in pdf format)
• I Can No Other Answer Make But Thanks (November-December 2008) (View in pdf format)
• Translate Server Error (January 2009) (View in pdf format)
• SWOT - What’s Hot and What’s Not (February 2009) (View in pdf format)
• Our Strengths (March 2009) (View in pdf format)
•  What We Are Lacking (April 2009) (View in pdf format)
• Opportunity Is Knocking (May 2009) (View in pdf format)
• Our Challenges (June 2009) (View in pdf format)
• Client Outreach (July 2009) (View in pdf format)
• Ask Not What the Crowd Can Do for You (August 2009) (View in pdf format)
• American Translators Association 1959-2009 (September 2009) (View in pdf format)
• First Person Singular (October 2009) (View in pdf format)

• “Stir-fried Wikipedia with Pimientos.” Alert! Magazine (May 2009), 22-23. View in pdf format
• “Tripping over Foreign Tongues.” The Deal: The Australian Business Magazine (March 2009), 39.
• “Lost in Translation .” Leicester and Rutland Life (March 2009), 28-30. View in pdf format
• “Non-English Qualitative Research .” Alert! Magazine (February 2009), 28-30. View in pdf format
• “Save money and face: Hire a professional translator.” Direct Marketing (January 2009), 25. View in pdf format
• “Quality Assessment in Translation.” CIUTI-Forum 2008. Enhancing Translation Quality: Ways, Means, Methods. Ed. Martin Forstner, Hannelore Lee-Jahnke, and Peter Schmitt. (2008), 291-300.
• “7,299 Languages And Counting.” Alert! Magazine (November 2008), 34-35 and 40. View in pdf format
• “Divided By A Common Language.” Alert! Magazine (August 2008), 30, 44 and 46. View in pdf format
•  “Salve! Navigating the Intricacies of Greeting in Different Cultures.” Alert! Magazine (July 2008), 28-29 and 46; also in MRA eNews (July 2008), online publication.
• “How Many Spanishes Do You Speak? ” Alert! Magazine (May 2008), 14-15 and 42. View in pdf format
• “Translation Services: Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say. ” TechNews (April 2008), 14-15. View in pdf format.
• “Tips for Buying Translation Services . ” Vistage View (April 2008). View in pdf format.
• “Translation: the Funny, the Not-So-Funy, and the Deadly. ” Alert! Magazine (December 2007), 18-19 and 44. View in pdf format.
• “Machine Translation: Friend or Foe? ” Alert! Magazine (November 2007), 39-41. View in pdf format.
• “Internationalization and Localization: What Does It Mean?.” Co-authored with Beth Podrovitz and Angèle Surault. Alert! Magazine (August 2007), 18-20 and 22. View in pdf format.
• “Quality Assessment in Translation.” Alert! Magazine (May 2007), 18-22. View in pdf format
• “ATA Certification: View of the Corporate Members.” ATA Chronicle 4 (2007), 15-18. View in pdf format.
• “Holidays Around the World.” Alert! Magazine (December 2006), 8, 16-18. View in pdf format.
• “Quality Assessment in Translation.” ATA Chronicle 10 (2006), 12-16; revised reprint from MultiLingual (June 2006), 41-44. View in pdf format.
• “Chinese Join the Global Travel Market: Do You Know How to Talk to Them?.” Alert! Magazine (August 2006), 26-28. View in pdf format.
• “Quality Assessment in Translation.” MultiLingual (June 2006), 41-44. View in pdf format.
• “Avoiding the Traps of Multilingual Online Research.” Co-authored with Beth Podrovitz. Alert! Magazine (April 2006), 18-19 and 21. View in pdf format.
• "Resume Writing for Freelancers." Co-authored with Beth Podrovitz. ATA Chronicle 2 (2006), 16-18. View in pdf format.
• “Writing Translation-Friendly Surveys.” Co-authored with Beth Podrovitz. Alert! Magazine (February 2006), 18-20 and 24. View in pdf format.
• “Success in Any Language: Tips for Buying Translation Services.” Co-authored with Beth Podrovitz. Quirk’s Marketing Research Review (November 2005), 38-42. View in pdf format.
• "Certification Worldwide: Survey of the FIT Status Committee." ATA Chronicle 10 (2005), 10-12, 15. View in pdf format.
• "Survey of Corporate and Freelance Members Regarding Payment Practices." Co-authored with Dorothee Racette. ATA Chronicle 6 (2005), 11-17. View in pdf format.
• "How do you say “Muggle” in Norwegian?" Bulletin of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (United Kingdom) 1/2 (2004), 9-10.
• "Credentialing of Translators and Interpreters: An International Perspective." The regulation, vel non, of the translation and interpretation professions within the context of European Union expansion. Conference materials collected from a conference organized by the Centre of Modern Translation and Interpretation Studies, University of Lodz, Poland (2003), 29-36.
• "International Certification Study: Germany." ADÜ Nord Infoblatt (Germany) 2 (2003), 6.
• "International Certification Study." Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the American Translators Association (2002). 69-75.
• "International Certification: The ATA Perspective." Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Federation of Translators (2002), 349-53.

"International Certification Study." Monthly column in ATA Chronicle:

• Accreditation Program in Brazil (July 2001) (View in pdf format)
• Accreditation by the South African Translators’ Institute (August 2001) (View in pdf format)
• Non-Degree Professional Certificates for Arabic (September 2001) (View in pdf format)
• Accreditation in Australia (October 2001) (View in pdf format)
• Czech Republic (November/December 2001) (View in pdf format)
• OTTIAQ (January 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Finland and Sweden (February 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Canada Revisited (March 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Austria (April 2002) (View in pdf format)
• UK and Ireland (May 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Argentina (June 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Norway (July 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Denmark (August 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Japan (September 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Spain and Portugal (October 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Ukraine (November/December 2002) (View in pdf format)
• Germany (January 2003) (View in pdf format)
• Mexico (February 2003) (View in pdf format)
• South America Revisited ( March 2003) (View in pdf format)
• Belgium and the Netherlands (April 2003) (View in pdf format)
• The Arab Countries (May 2003) (View in pdf format)
• The United States (June 2003) (View in pdf format)
• ATA’s Credential (July 2003) (View in pdf format)
• Lessons Learned (August 2003) (View in pdf format)

• "A Brief History of Czech Literary Translating." ATA Chronicle 4 (1999), 23-26.
• "Strange Characters: Diacriticals in Czech and Other East European Languages." ATA Chronicle 4 (1998), 34-36.
• "The Renaissance of the Czech Language." ATA Chronicle 3 (1997), 35-41.
• "Nepravděpodobná setkání: Kafka, Hašek, Klíma." Světová literárněvědná bohemistika II (1995), 623-29.
• "Czech Characters in the DOS Environment." Czech Language News 1 (1993), 8-9.
•  "Český jazyk na amerických univerzitách." Český jazyk a literatura 43 (1993), 139-40.
• "Výuka češtiny na amerických univerzitách." K problematice výuky češtiny jako cizího jazyka. Poděbrady: ÚJOP, 1992. 26-32.

Unpublished Materials

• Dissertation: Prague Literature: the Germans and the Czechs, 1880-1930. University of Pennsylvania, 1998. 214 pages. Available at the University of Pennsylvania library.
• Research study: "The Figure of Golem in Central European Literature." Selected by the Research Committee of the Central European University for an Individual Research Support Scheme Grant for the academic year 1993/1994. 85 pages. Available at the Central European University library.