Hello!  I am a German > English translator with a Bachelor of Arts in German from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri.  My studies included courses in German > English and English > German translation, German Dialectology, and my capstone project was an English > German translation of a chapter from Robert Gutman’s Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind, and his Music.  

From 2017 – 2019 I had the opportunity to be the head translator on a project to translate several texts from Ohio Amish communities, which were later published in The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies.  This project lasted several semesters and required  constant contact with the client to ensure that I was translating this unique dialect of German correctly and that the tone of the texts remained the same. Aside from my years of studying German I have also honed my German skills through spending a considerable amount of time living in Germany. I studied abroad on two separate occasions, once at Walram Gymnasium in Menden and once at the Collegium Palatinum in Heidelberg. I also was awarded a Fulbright Grant to spend a year living in Dortmund and assisting with the English lessons at Leibniz Gymnasium.

I have also worked to specialize in translating texts relating to classical music.  I have played the violin since I was 11 and have played with orchestras both in the United States and Germany.  While I was on my Fulbright Grant I had the privilege of playing with the Universitätsorchester of the Technische Universität Dortmund.  I also have attended concerts throughout the German-speaking world.  My passion for and experience with classical music give me extra expertise for translating texts on classical music.