Rosário Durão

Curriculum Vitae
Rosário Durão
Education
PhD in Translation Studies (US equivalent degree)
Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal (Open University, Lisbon, Portugal) (Jun. 4, 2008).
Dissertation: Tradução científica e técnica: Proposta para a formação de tradutores pluricompetentes
especializados na produção de documentação científica e técnica do inglês para o português [Technical and
scientific translation: Proposal for the education of multicompetent translators specialized in producing
scientific and technical documentation from English into European Portuguese]. Universidade Aberta
(Open University, Lisbon), 2007. Available at https://repositorioaberto.uab.pt/handle/10400.2/776
MA in Anglo-American Studies
University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters, Lisbon, Portugal (May 2, 1996).
Thesis: O gótico como estratégia de subversão feminista radical em Zofloya: Or, The Moor, de Charlotte
Dacre [The Gothic as radical feminist subversion strategy in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya: Or, The Moor]
Licentiate in Modern Languages and Literatures. Concentration: English and Portuguese Studies
University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters, Lisbon, Portugal (Jul. 26, 1990).
Certification
Protecting Human Research Participants training course
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research. Certification Number: 389600 (Feb. 10,
2010).
Research history
Research collaborator: MOV. Moving Bodies: Itineraries and Narratives in Translation research project –
CITCOM - Citizenship, Critical Cosmopolitanism, Modernity/ies, (Post)Colonialism research group,
University of Lisbon Center for Comparative Studies, Portugal (May 2015−to date).
Coordinator: Humanizing Tech/nology research project (May 2014−to date).
Director: Visualizing STEM Research Synergy Cluster of the Humanizing Tech/nology research project (Aug.
2013−to date).
Co-coordinator: Humanizing Tech/nology research project (Aug. 2013−May 2014).
Research scholar: Iowa State University, Department of English, Ames, IA, US (2009−2010).
Postdoctoral fellow: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal (Oct. 2008−Jul. 2012).
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Employment history
Assistant professor: Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, and Social Sciences, NMT, Socorro, NM
(Jul. 2012−to date).
Postdoctoral researcher in Communication Sciences: University of Lisbon, Center for Comparative Studies,
Lisbon, Portugal (Oct. 2008−Jul. 2012).
Tutor: Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal (Oct. 2007−Jun. 2008).
Assistant professor: Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal (Oct. 1997−Sep.
2002 and Oct. 1996−Sep. 1997).
Instructor: Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciência, Lisbon, Portugal (Oct. 1996−Jan. 1999).
Instructor: Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Estoril, Portugal (Oct. 1996−Jul. 1997).
Replacement secondary school teacher: Escola Secundária de D. Pedro V, Lisbon, Portugal (1995−1996);
Escola Secundária de Telheiras, Lisbon, Portugal (1992−1993).
Full-time secondary school teacher: Escola Secundária de Dona Filipa de Lencastre, Lisbon, Portugal
(1994−1995); Escola Técnica de Profissionais de Bailado da Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Lisbon,
Portugal (1990−1991); Externato Apolo, Lisbon, Portugal (1989−1990); Escola Secundária de Dona Luísa de
Gusmão, Lisbon, Portugal (1988−1989).
Freelance translator (1987−2002).
Correspondent in Foreign Languages: Construções Metalomecânicas Mague, SA (1979−1987).
Clerk: A+P (1979).
Articles under development
“Visualizing science and technology across cultures: A literature review.” Co-authored by the Visualizing
STEM Research Synergy Cluster researchers.
Articles in press and under review
Journal articles (refereed)
López-León, Ricardo, and Rosário Durão. “La visualización y su rol en la formación de científicos y
tecnólogos. | The role of visualization in the education of scientists, engineers, health professionals, and
university educators.”
Conference proceedings (refereed)
Kramer-Simpson, Elisabeth, Rosário Durão, and Steve Simpson. “Building strategic partnerships:
Experiential learning and the technical and scientific communication curriculum.”
Publications
Book chapters
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Ford, Julie Dyke, Julianne Newmark, and Rosário Durão (2015). “Writers among engineers and scientists.”
In Undergraduate Writing Majors: Nineteen Program Profiles, edited by Jim Nugent, Greg Giberson, & Lori
Ostergaard (Boulder, CO: Utah State University Press), 2015: 106−118.
Durão, Rosário (2004). “Construction sites: The male, masculinity, and kindred selves.” In Culture and
Power: Music, Media and Visual Arts, edited by Fernando Galván Ruela, Julio Cañero Serrano and José
Santiago Fernández Vázquez (Alcalá de Henares: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá de
Henares), 2004: 49–58.
Journal articles (refereed)
Durão, Rosário, Marta Pacheco Pinto, Kristina Henneke, and Karen M. Balch (2014). “Visualizing science
and technology across cultures: Results of a pilot study.” Information Design Journal, 21(2), 2014: 99–114.
doi:10.1075/idj.21.2.03dur
Durão, Rosário, Tie Wei, Kristina Henneke, Karen M. Balch, Maxwell Hill, and Rachel Rayl (2014).
“Visualizing the data visualization network: The DVMap project.” European Scientific Journal, September
2014, Special issue edition, Vol. 1: 232−241, 2014. Available at
http://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/4094/3928
Durão, Rosário (2011). “The design of online complaint forms: a comparison of American and Portuguese
examples.” Information Design Journal, 19(2), 2011: 120−139. doi:10.1075/idj.19.2.04dur
Durão, Rosário (2005). “Primeiro relatório de um inquérito a fornecedores de serviços de tradução
científica e técnica de inglês para português europeu” [First Report on a Survey to English to European
Portuguese Scientific and Technical Translation Service Providers]. Confluências – Revista de Tradução
Científica e Técnica: A Tradução Científica e Técnica em Língua Portuguesa no Mundo, 3, 2005: 29−61.
Journal articles (non-refereed)
Durão, Rosário (2014). “connexions interview with Kit Brown-Hoekstra [Vimeo video].” connexions •
international professional communication journal, 2(1) 2014: 137–146. Transcript available at
http://tinyurl.com/ly4vtc4
Durão, Rosário (2014). “connexions interview with Ricardo Muñoz Martín [Vimeo video].” connexions •
international professional communication journal, 2(1) 2014: 147–155. Transcript available at
http://tinyurl.com/llqjhbj
Durão, Rosário, and Kyle Mattson (2014). “A more complete experience: Revisiting digital production at
connexions.” connexions • international professional communication journal, 2(1) 2014: 3−4. Available at
https://connexionsj.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/durao-mattson.pdf
Durão, Rosário (2013). “International professional communication: An overview.” connexions •
international professional communication journal, 1(1) 2013: 1−24. Available at
http://connexionsj.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/durao_.pdf
Durão, Rosário (2003). “Traduzir do inglês (1): Chest Pain” [Translating from English (1): Chest pain]. O
Língua: Revista Digital sobre Tradução, 2, 2003. Available at http://cvc.institutocamoes.pt/olingua/02/lingua02.html
Durão, Rosário (2001/2002). “New Orleans e o cinema” [New Orleans and/in film]. Revista de
Humanidades e Tecnologias – Dossier Línguas e Culturas, 6/7/8, 2001/2002: 215−220. Available
at http://hdl.handle.net/10437/2508
Conference proceedings
Costa, Carlos J., Daniel Bofill, Joaquim Baptista, Marco Neves, and Rosário Durão (2014). “Perspectives on
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design of communication.” ISDOC '14, pp. 177−177, 2014, Proceedings of the International Conference on
Information Systems and Design of Communication. doi: 10.1145/2618168.2618199. Transcript available at
http://pxquim.com/files/2014-05-twl-report.pdf
Durão, Rosário (2009). “Global visions: Promoting excellence in the education of professional
communicators and translators.” ipcc, pp. 1−7, 2009, 2009, IEEE International Professional Communication
Conference. doi:10.1109/IPCC.2009.5208717
Durão, Rosário (2003). “O ensino da tradução e o desafio europeu” [Teaching translation and the
European challenge]. Actas do 2º Colóquio Internacional Anual da Lusofonia, SLP – Norte. Lusofonia:
Diversidades Culturais, Sociedade da Língua Portuguesa – Norte, Bragança, 2003 [CD-ROM].
Book reviews
Durão, Rosário (2009). Book review: Technical Translation: Usability Strategies for Translating Technical
Documentation, Jody Byrne. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (ITT): Volume 3, Number 1, 2009:
Special Issue. Training for Doctoral Research (St. Jerome Publishing): 177−180.
Durão, Rosário (2002). Book review: Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge through Cultures and
Time by Scott L. Montgomery. Discursos – Série Estudos de Tradução, 2, 2002: 153−155.
Interview
APCOMTEC (2014). “Os nossos associados: Entrevista a Rosário Durão” [“Our members: An interview
with Rosário Durão”] APCOMTEC newsletter (APCOMTEC - Portuguese Association of Technical
Communication), 2014. Available at http://issuu.com/apcomt/docs/os_nossos_associados_-_entrevista_r/1
Presentations
Keynote addresses
Durão, Rosário (2014). “Visualizing science and technology across cultures: Results of a pilot study.”
2nd Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference AIIC 2014, by invitation of Dejan Marolov. AIIC
2014, 8−12 Jul. 2014, Ponta Delgada, Azores (Jul. 8, 2014).
Durão, Rosário (2014). “Keynote address: Communicating science and technology visually.” International
Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, by invitation of the conference chairs,
Carlos Costa and Manuela Aparício. SIGDOC 2014, May 16−17, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal (May 16, 2014).
Presentations at professional meetings as a result of peer-reviewed proposals
Durão, Rosário (2015), Yvonne Eriksson, Kyle Mattson, and Tatiana Batova. “Engineers’ design practices:
An international ethnographic pilot study.” 2015 meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science,
Denver, CO (Nov. 11−14, 2015) [Presenter: Rosário Durão].
López-León, Ricardo, and Rosário Durão (2015). “Visuals in Action: Proyecto de colaboración
internacional que busca conocer la visualización de la ciencia y la tecnología.” 3er Foro Internacional
Imagen Tecnológica, Interpretación y Investigación, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico (Nov. 4−5, 2015).
[Presenter: Ricardo López−León].
Durão, Rosário, and Anastasia Parianou (2015). “Inquiring into the visual practices and representations of
engineers from different parts of the world (Inquirindo as práticas e representações visuais de engenheiros
em diferentes países)” 6º ESOCITE.BR TECSOC (VI Simpósio de Tecnologia e Sociedade), Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil (Oct. 14−16, 2015). [Presenter: Rosário Durão].
Durão, Rosário, Yvonne Eriksson, Kyle Mattson, Tatiana Batova, Yvan Yenda Illunga, and Anastasia
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Parianou (2015). “Conveying meaning through shapes and lines: What practicing engineers can teach
Higher Education (HE) about information literacy in g/local worksites.” Georgia International Conference
on Information Literacy, Sep. 25−26, 2015, Savannah, GA (Sep. 25−26, 2015). [Presenters: Rosário Durão
and Kyle Mattson]. Slides available at http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2015/2015/76/
Durão, Rosário (2014). “Visualizing the data visualization network: The DVMap project.” 2nd Annual
International Interdisciplinary Conference, AIIC 2014, 8−12 Jul. Azores, Portugal, Vol. I, 232−241 (Jul. 11,
2014). doi: 10.13140/2.1.1427.3929.
Durão, Rosário (2014). “Data visualization across cultures.” Presentation for the Data Visualization in a
STEM-Focused Institution panel at the 17th Annual Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Conference (Mar. 19, 2014).
Durão, Rosário (2013). “Visualizing science and technology across cultures.” Presentation for Panel 1:
International Professional Communication at the Partnerships for Professionalism Pre-Conference cosponsored by the STC Academic SIG and CPTSC, Cincinnati, OH (Oct. 11, 2013).
Durão, Rosário (2013). “For people out there: Creating a user manual for the national radio astronomy
observatory and elsewhere.” Panel: “Building strategic partnerships: Experiential learning and the technical
and scientific communication curriculum.” 2013 Annual CPTSC Conference, Cincinnati, OH (Oct. 11,
2013).
Durão, Rosário (2010). “Relating to dissatisfied customers: Comparing the verbal-visual features of online
complaint forms of North American and Portuguese companies.” ABC 75th Annual Convention, Chicago,
IL (Oct. 28, 2010).
Durão, Rosário (2009). “Global visions: Promoting excellence in the education of professional
communicators and translators.” IPCC 2009 – International Professional Communication Conference, Jul.
19−22, Honolulu, HI (Jul. 21, 2009).
Durão, Rosário (2003). “O ensino da tradução e o desafio europeu” [Translator teaching and the European
challenge]. 2.º Colóquio Internacional Anual da Lusofonia, SLP – Norte. Lusofonia: Diversidades Culturais,
Bragança, Portugal (Nov. 8, 2003).
Durão, Rosário (2002). “Translators: Bridging the gap between ‘The Two Cultures’.” Translation (Studies):
A Crossroads of Disciplines, Lisbon, Portugal (Nov. 14, 2002).
Durão, Rosário (2001). “Da diversidade à especificidade: Um modelo para a formação de tradutores”
[From diversity to specificity: A model for training translators]. I Congresso Ibérico sobre Tradução: O
Ensino/Aprendizagem da Tradução, Lisbon, Portugal (Nov. 28, 2001).
Durão, Rosário (2001). “Construction sites: The male, masculinity, and kindred selves.” Seventh Seminar
on Culture and Power: (Mis)representations, Alcalá, Spain (Oct. 4, 2001).
Other speaking engagements
Durão, Rosário (2015). “O “Visualizing STEM Research Synergy Cluster”: Um aglomerado de investigação
interdisciplinar, intersetorial e internacional" [The Visualizing STEM Research Synergy Cluster: An
international, interdisciplinary and intersector cluster] lightning talk. VI ESOCITE.BR TECSOC – 6º
Simpósio Nacional de Tecnologia e Sociedade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Oct. 14−16, 2015).
Durão, Rosário (2015).RReframing, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love putting students at the
helm” talk/workshop. Formal meeting of ISTAR-IUL, APCOMTEC, EuroSIGDOC, and Technical Writers
@ Lisbon, held at ISCTE−IUL in Lisbon, Portugal (May 23, 2015). Slides available
at http://eurosigdoc.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-05-twl-report3.pdf
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Costa, Carlos J., Daniel Bofill, Joaquim Baptista, Marco Neves, Rosário Durão (2014). “Perspectives on
design of communication” panel. International Conference on Information Systems and Design of
Communication (ISDOC 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, by invitation of the conference chairs, Carlos Costa and
Manuela Aparício (May 17, 2014). doi:10.1145/2618168.2618199. Transcript available at
http://pxquim.com/files/2014-05-twl-report.pdf
Durão, Rosário (2013). “Data visualization workshop” for professors at NMT. Humanizing Tech/nology
research project. NMT (Nov. 6, 2013).
Albers, Michael J., Tracy Bridgeford, Rosário Durão, Donna Kain, Miles Kimball, Melinda Knight, Charles
Kostelnick, Liz Pohland (2013). “Editors’ forum: Conversations with editors in the field: An opportunity to
hear from and meet with editors in the field.” 2013 Annual CPTSC Conference, Cincinnati, OH (Oct. 11,
2013).
Durão, Rosário (2013). “From visual communication to data visualization.” NMT, by invitation of Julie
Dyke Ford (Oct. 30, 2013).
Durão, Rosário (2012). “Writing and creating visual displays for global audiences.” NMT, by invitation of
Maggie Griffin−Taylor (Dec. 5, 2012).
Durão, Rosário (2012). “International professional communication: How I got to it. Why I believe in it.”
NMT, by invitation of Elisabeth Kramer−Simpson (Nov. 20, 2012).
Durão, Rosário (2012). “connexions • international professional communication journal: The new NMT
journal.” NMT (Oct. 30, 2012).
Durão, Rosário (2012). “Communication: The human factor.” University of Lisbon, Center for
Comparative Studies, by invitation of Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa (May 24, 2012).
Durão, Rosário (2012). “World-people-ready: Designing online information today.” NMT, Department of
Communication, Liberal Arts, and Social Sciences (Feb. 20, 2012).
Durão, Rosário (2011). “Professional communication and information design.” University of Lisbon,
Faculty of Letters, by invitation of Manuela Carvalho (Nov. 30−Dec. 7, 2011).
Durão, Rosário (2011). “Professional communication and information design, today.” University of Aveiro,
Department of Languages and Cultures, Aveiro, Portugal, by invitation of the Portuguese Association for
Technical Communication, APCOMTEC (May 31, 2011).
Durão, Rosário (2011). “Professional communication and information design.” University of Lisbon,
Faculty of Letters, by invitation of Manuela Carvalho (May 2−4, 2011).
Durão, Rosário (2011). “Designing information for online users. Numbers. Profiles. Techniques.”
University of Lisbon, Center for Comparative Studies, and Center for English Studies of the University of
Lisbon (Mar. 3, 2011).
Durão, Rosário (2010). “International perspectives on visual information design in professional
communication.” Iowa State University, Department of English (Oct. 18, 2010).
Durão, Rosário (2010). Postdoctoral research project presentations. INTERFACES: Encontros e Debates
(INTERFACES: Encounters and Debates) project (May 19, 2010), and Modern Differences research group
(May 22, 2010).
Durão, Rosário (2009). “Information design: A functional interaction.” University of Lisbon, Faculty of
Letters (Sep. 29, 2009).
Durão, Rosário (2009). Guided students from two Visual Culture classes in the Communication Sciences
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undergraduate program to develop posters announcing two talks. University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters,
by invitation of the course instructor, Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa (Sep. 16−29, 2009).
Durão, Rosário (2009). “The translator as author/communicator.” Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade
de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon, Portugal, by invitation of Maria Zulmira Castanheira (Jan. 22,
2009).
Durão, Rosário (2008). “Translation as a communication act.” University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters, by
invitation of Margarita Correia (Nov. 27, 2008).
Durão, Rosário (2001). “New Orleans e o cinema” [New Orleans and/in film]. Ciclo de Conferências
Interculturalidades: Comunicação, Globalidade e Diversidade (May, 2001).
Durão, Rosário (1999). “A metáfora gótica n’O Segundo Sexo” [The gothic metaphor in The Second Sex]. O
Segundo Sexo, de Simone de Beauvoir – O Estado das Coisas, Lisbon, Portugal (May 4, 1999).
Contracts and grants
Pending
Visualizing Science and Technology Across Cultures International Research Coordination Network
(VISTAC-INet-RCN) grant proposal submission to NSF (Submitted on Jan. 6, 2016).
Funded contracts and grants
Postdoctoral research fellowship, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal. Grant funded |
Oct. 2008−Jul. 2012.
Grant to participate in the Seventh Seminar on Culture and Power: (Mis)representations, Universidad de
Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal. 2001. Grant funded.
Service to the research community
Video editing and production of interviews with Scott Abel, Kit Brown-Hoekstra, Ricardo Muñoz Martín,
and Kim Yangsook for issue 2(1), 2014 of connexions • international professional communication journal.
Available at https://vimeo.com/user35577107/videos [Coeditors and coproducers: Rosário Durão and
Quan Zhou]
Founding editor and current co-editor of connexions • international professional communication journal, a
peer-reviewed e-journal housed at the Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, NMT,
and the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas (2012−to date).
Teaching
Courses
Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, and Social Sciences, NMT, Socorro, NM (Fall 2012−to date).
Graduate courses
TC 589 International Professional Communication (Spring 2013, Fall 2014).
TC 561 Data Visualization (Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016).
Undergraduate courses
TC 491 Data Visualization Project Experience (directed study) (Fall 2015).
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TC 491 International Crisis and Humanitarian Aid Communication (directed study) (Fall 2013).
TC 491 Web Management (directed study) (Summer 2013).
TC 491 Professional Communication Project Experience (directed study) (Spring 2013).
TC 411 Persuasive Communication (Fall 2012).
TC 389 International Professional Communication (Spring 2013, Fall 2014).
TC 361 (previously TC 389) Advanced Visual Communication: Data Visualization (Fall 2013, Spring
2015, Spring 2016).
TC 351 Web Design (Spring 2013, Spring 2014).
ENGL 341 Technical Writing (Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014).
TC 321 Internship (Fall 2015).
TC 211 Media Studies (Spring 2015, Spring 2016).
TC 151 Visual Communication (Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016).
TC 101 Orientation to Technical Communication (Fall 2015).
Center for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Intensive Course in Information Design Intensive (May 18−Jun. 8, 2009).
Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal
Writing and Communication Techniques, I and II (Oct. 2007−Jun. 2008).
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal
English and Anglophone Cultures I (2001−2002); English Language I, II (1999−2000, 2001−2002);
English to Portuguese Translation, I, II, III and IV (1998−2002); English for Specific Purposes
(1997−2002); English Language and Culture I, II (1996−1997, 1996−1999).
Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciência, Lisbon, Portugal
English Language, II, III (Oct. 1996−Jan. 1999).
Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Estoril, Portugal
English Language, III, IV (Oct. 1996−Jul. 1997).
Program development
Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, and Social Sciences, NMT, Socorro, NM (Fall, 2012−to date)
Graduate courses
TC 589 International Professional Communication
TC 561 Data Visualization
Undergraduate courses
TC 491 Data Visualization Project Experience (directed study)
TC 491 International Crisis and Humanitarian Aid Communication (directed study)
TC 491 Website Management (directed study)
TC 491 Professional Communication Project Experience (directed study)
TC 411 Persuasive Communication
TC 389 International Professional Communication
TC 361 (formerly TC 389) Advanced Visual Communication: Data Visualization
TC 351 Web Design
ENGL 341 Technical Writing
TC 321 Internship
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TC 211 Media Studies
TC 151 Visual Communication
TC 101 Orientation to Technical Communication
Center for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Oct. 2008−Jul. 2012).
Certificate program in Professional Communication (Jun.−Sep. 2009).
Intensive course in Information Design (May−Jun. 2009).
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal (Oct. 1997−Sep. 2002 and Oct.
1996−Sep. 1997).
Developed certificate programs in audiovisual translation, scientific and technical translation, biomedical
and biopharmaceutical translation.
Developed courses in North-American culture, North-American literature, Women’s writing, Gender,
sex and family, Writing the Revolution (1790–1825), Elizabethan drama, Media, culture and society, The
gothic, History of the United States, Literary culture and scientific culture, The comic, Culture and
popular music, and Minority writing for the Modern Languages and Literatures: Portuguese and English
studies program.
Developed English I and II courses for the Geography and Regional Development program.
Professional development
“iPad workshops,” NMT (Sep. 16−17, 2013).
“Both sides of the equation: Learning and teaching – A workshop focused on best practices for engaging
STEM students in their learning,” NMT (Aug. 15−16, Sep. 20, 2013).
“Fall 2013 new student advisor program,” NMT (May 20−24, 2013).
“Formação de tutores em E-learning” [“E-learning tutor training”], Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal
(Sep.−Oct. 2007).
“Tradução e Internet – A tradução de conteúdos para a Internet” [“Translation and the internet –
Translating content for the internet”], Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal (Sep. 20−24, 2004).
“Curso de capacitação pedagógica para o ensino superior” [“Higher Education teacher training course”],
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal (Nov. 20−24, 2000).
Service
Departmental
Assisted in organizing a talk by Bernadette Longo and David Kmiek, from the New Jersey Institute of
Technology, on Oct. 12, 2015. Title of the talk: “Using project workflow to teach engineering
communication.” (Oct. 2015).
Organization: videoconferences and in-person guest talks by Angelica Perry (Grant writer/fundraiser at
Glade Run Lutheran Services), Deborah Bosley (owner and principal in The Plain Language Group), Matt
Osielski (senior marketing manager and information developer at CenturyLink), Cindy Veitch
(cybersecurity research and development at Sandia National Laboratories), and Jon Byrne (proposal
sponsor at Kiewit Infrastructure Engineers Co.) for the TC 102 Orientation to Technical Communication
class at NMT (Aug. −Nov. 2015).
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Organization: videoconference by Kit Brown-Hoekstra, STC President, for the International Professional
Communication class at NMT. Conference title: “5 things you need to know about global-ready content.”
(Nov. 18, 2014).
Coordinator: Humanizing Tech/nology research project (May 2014−to date).
Search committee member: Social Science search committee (Sep. 2014−Jan. 2015).
Director: Visualizing STEM Research Synergy Cluster of the Humanizing Tech/nology research project
(Aug. 2013−to date).
Co-director: Humanizing Tech/nology research project (Aug. 2013−May 2014).
Student advisor: Technical Communication students (May 2013−to date).
Organization: talk by Bernadette Longo, from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, on April 29, 2013.
Title of the talk: “Trust” (Apr. 2013).
Oversaw TC 589, TC 389 – International Professional Communication students’ preparation and
production of a manual for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Spring 2013).
Advising walk-in students (2012−to date).
Oversaw students’ design of the new Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, and Social Sciences
website (Fall 2012−Fall 2013).
Oversaw TC411 – Persuasive Communication students’ 1) design of Animal Shelter posters, 2) production
of the TC@Tech – STC Trinitite student facebook page (Spring 2012).
Invited Barbara Bonnekessen to speak to the TC 411 class, on Oct. 10, 2012. Title of the talk: “From
technisch to ‘mechanical’: Of words and their meanings, and Europe in the 1930s–40s” (2012).
Institutional
Member of the Nominating Committee (2014−2016).
Member of the ADA (American Disability Act) committee (2014−2016).
High Priestess Champion, NMT Miniatures Club (2014 to date).
“Data visualization clinic” for professors at the NMT (Coordinator; Conducted together with Abigail
Smoake, a TC 389 Advanced Visual Communication: Data Visualization student). Humanizing
Tech/nology research project (Nov. 20, 2013).
Member of the Computer on Campus Committee (2012−2014).
Professional
Reviewer: Manuscript for Translation Spaces (Dec. 2015).
Review manager: Proposals for the 2013 and 2014 annual conferences of the Council for Programs in
Technical and Scientific Communication (2013, 2014).
Member-at-large: Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Executive Committee
(2012−2014).
Reviewer: Proposals for the 6th International Conference of the Iberian Association of Translation and
Interpreting Studies (AIETI) (Sep. 2012).
Consultant: Design of the research center’s newsletter. University of Lisbon, Center for Comparative
Studies, Lisbon, Portugal (Jun. 2012).
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Organizer: Karen Schriver’s talk “Hot Topics in Information Design: Nurturing Your Expertise.” University
of Lisbon, Center for Comparative Studies, Lisbon, Portugal (Jun. 25, 2009).
Reviewer: Panace@: Boletín de Medicina y Traducción, Spain (2004−to date).
Editor: Confluências – Revista de Tradução Científica e Técnica, peer-reviewed e-journal. Lisbon, Portugal
(2003−2006).
Current professional affiliations
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
Associação Portuguesa para a Comunicação Técnica (APCOMTEC)
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
Society for Social Studies of Science (4s)
February 5, 2016
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