Wallace Chen is associate professor and program coordinator of Chinese translation and interpretation of the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, USA. Professor Chen specializes in English-Chinese conference interpreting, translation, and using corpus methodology in translation teaching and research.
His published translations cover a wide range of topics, including biology, patent and intellectual property, computing, environmental protection, psychology, Internet, online commerce, history, anthropology, and science and technology. Professor Chen taught translation and interpreting at Taiwan Normal University and Soochow University.
He also taught interpreting to staff interpreters of state-owned enterprises in China, as well as holding workshops on corpus-assisted translation teaching and studies in Training-of-Trainers programs in Beijing. Professor Chen is a permanent member of Taiwan Association of Translation and Interpretation (TATI). He has given keynote speeches and presentations on Corpus-based Translation Studies in conferences and seminars held in Taiwan, Beijing and the United Kingdom. He has been building a number of translation corpora for use in text selection and T&I teaching.