Dr Jessica Macauley


BMus, BA (Hons), PhD.
Affiliate of the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters (NZSTI)
Languages: English (native speaker), German.

Qualifications

University qualifications

  • PhD in German — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Graduate Diploma in Teaching — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Bachelor of Arts in German (first-class Honours) — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Bachelor of Music in Performance Piano — Victoria University of Wellington & Canterbury University, New Zealand
  • Diploma in Performing Arts — New Zealand College of Performing Arts, Dunedin, New Zealand

Academic awards

  • VUW PhD Scholarship — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • GWW Secondary Teaching Award — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Gerda Bell Prize — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Oesterlitz Prize — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • DAAD Semester Scholarship to Karl-Eberhard Universität, Germany — German Academic Exchange Service
  • Eichelbaum Prize — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Alabaster Knowles Prize in Music — Canterbury University, New Zealand
  • Leslie Atkinson Memorial Prize in Music — Canterbury University, New Zealand
  • German Embassy Prize — Canterbury University, New Zealand

Translation experience

A few examples of my translation work to date:
  • Personal correspondence from the early 20th century on leprosy in Samoa
  • Academic lectures, workshops and abstracts on Classical music
  • A journal article abstract on linguistics
  • Papers on the work of the German author Thomas Mann
  • Articles on the German-speaking Israeli poet Manfred Winkler
  • (In collaboration) A funding proposal for an edition of the correspondence between the Viennese philosophers Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath
  • Newspaper, magazine and journal articles

Professional development

Business School for Translators (Marta Stelmaszak)