Biography
House received a degree in English and Spanish Translation and International Law from the University of Heidelberg,Germany. Later,she worked as a translator and researcher. She earned her BEd,MA and PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (1976) at the University of Toronto,Canada. [3]
She is a senior member of the German Science Foundation’s Research Centre on Multilingualism [2] at the University of Hamburg, [3] where she held a position from 1979 until her retirement in 2008. [4] While there she directed several projects on translation and interpreting.
She was one of the founding members of IATIS and one of its former presidents. [2] [5]
Since 2008,she has been the Chair of Linguistics Programs and Director of the PhD in Applied Linguistics:Discourse in English Language Teaching,Testing or Translation/Interpreting Program at Hellenic American University. [6] [7]
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