Joanna Waller

Joanna Waller
80 Tankerton Road
Whitstable, Kent
CT5 2AQ
UK

Tel: +44 1227 274710
Fax: +44 1227 771329
Mobile: 0468 964 257
E-mail: joannawaller@compuserve.com

Date of birth.: 15 October 1955
Married, four children.

Translation services provided:

French, Spanish and Italian into English.
Normal translation rates: £55.00 per thousand words, plus VAT.

Relevant qualifications:

Spanish and Italian "A" levels, L.S.U. Convent, Herne Bay, Kent
B.A. Hons in French and English, University of Kent at Canterbury
Postgraduate Certificate of Education, Christ Church College, Canterbury
Catholic Certificate in Religious Studies, Franciscan International Study Centre, Canterbury.
B.A. in Theology, Franciscan International Study Centre, Canterbury – currently studying part-time.
Member of Institute of Translation and Interpreting.

Experience:

Full-time freelance translator since 1986, specialising in technical subjects – I.T., telecommunications, electronics. Work for agencies in UK and Europe.

Also provide translation services to various charitable and justice and peace groups – including Minewatch, Africa News Bulletin and recently Housetop and John Wijngaards’ womenpriests web page.

Other interests and experience:

Member of St. Vincent de Paul society for 26 years, acting as conference secretary, and currently District Council secretary.
Member of parish catechists’ team – confirmation group.
Secretary to parish Liturgy committee
Formerly secretary to local Victim Support Scheme committee for ten years, and Chair of local Citizens’ Advice Bureau committee for five years.

We gratefully acknowledge Joanna’s voluntary, professional service to this website!

For examples of her translation see:

‘Male discourse about God in the liturgy and its effects on women’, by Ida Raming;
‘A woman’s priestly vocation’, La Croix 15 December 1999;
‘Human rights in the Church’, by Marie-Thérèse Van Lunen Chenu;
Marie-Thérèse Van Lunen Chénu and Louise Wentholt, ‘The Status of Women in the Code of Canon Law and in the United Nations Convention’;
Marie-Thérèse Van Lunen Chenu, “Human rights in the Church: a non-right for women in the Church?”.
‘Women Priests?’, by Jean-Marie Aubert, from La femme: antiféminisme et christianisme, Cerf - Desclée, Paris 1975.
‘The exclusion of women from the priesthood according to Thomas Aquinas’, by Umberto Eco.

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