Interview with Professor Donald C. Kiraly

This interview was carried out in September 2019, via e-mail, with Donald C. Kiraly, Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität School of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, located in Mainz, Germany. Donald C. Kiraly studied Political Science at Cleveland State University in Ohio, obtained his M.A. in International Relations at Florida State University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, in the United States. He was a visiting professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, and from September 2008 to August 2012, he held a visiting professor's position at the Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes et Traducteurs of the University of Paris III, in France, where he taught French-English, Spanish-English and German-English translation. Among his main works dedicated to translator education are Pathways to translation (1995), Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education (2000) and Towards Authentic Experiential Learning in Translator Education (2016). Professor Don Kiraly provides several important contributions in the following interview on the topic "evaluation of translations".