Julia Isaac Professorial Lecturer Department of World Languages and Cultures
- Additional Positions at AU
- Director, Graduate Certificate in Spanish Translation
- Degrees
- BA-ESL Teaching (ISP no. 8, Argentina)
BA-English-Spanish Translation (ISP no. 8, Argentina)
MA-Foreign Languages (West Virginia University)
MA-SFL Teaching (UIMP, Spain) - Bio
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Julia obtained two BA's in her home country, Argentina; Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and English<>Spanish Translation at the Instituto Superior del Profesorado No. 8 in the city of Santa Fe.
She held an English for Specific Purposes teaching position at the Red Cross School of Higher Education in Esperanza (Argentina) for three years, and has been a freelance translator since 2007.
In 2013, she came to the US to pursue a MA in Foreign Languages (Spanish/Linguistics) in West Virginia University, after which she worked as an Interpreter, Translator & Cultural Mediator at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, and then as the Translation Project Manager of the Translation & Interpreting Office at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Since August 2017, she serves as a Professorial Lecturer of Spanish and Translation at American University and, since Fall 2018, Julia is also the Director of the Graduate Certificate in Spanish Translation.
In 2020 she obtained her second MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Spain, and in 2021, she obtained a Graduate Certificate in Translation Teaching at the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She was a board member of the NGO Centro Argentino (CEGA) 2018-2020, and since 2020, she serves as a Bilingual Coordinator for the non-profit Gaithersburg Help, in addition to being deeply engaged with multiple non-profits focused on aiding the Latino population in the US through continuous partnerships established by way of AU.
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Teaching
Spring 2022
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SPAN-458 Intro to Spanish Translation
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SPAN-458 Intro to Spanish Translation
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SPAN-459 Advanced Spanish Translation
Summer 2022
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SPAN-153 Spanish, Elementary II
Fall 2022
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SPAN-352 Adv Spanish I: Spain
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SPAN-458 Intro to Spanish Translation
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SPAN-459 Advanced Spanish Translation