1. MELISSA MCMAHON
Professional French to English translator
melissamcmahon@iinet.net.au
0431 843 939
1/109 Mount Street, Coogee NSW 2034 (AUSTRALIA GMT + 9)
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PROFESSIONAL AND TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS
2000
2005
1992
1991
NAATI Translator Accreditation (Level 3/Professional) French to English, no. 19837
PhD (Philosophy), The University of Sydney
BA (Hons) Monash University: Philosophy & Comparative Literature
BA (Pass) The University of Sydney: French, Philosophy, Linguistics
PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE
I have been self-employed full time as a freelance translator since 2007. I work in a variety of fields: commercial
publications, business/legal, creative and academic translation. Client details available on request.
- Commercial publications (full list of published commercial translations attached)
Over 30 titles translated for Murdoch Books and Larousse, mostly in the fields of cooking and lifestyle, and
provided consultation services for French language content in English-language books.
- Media translation: film, television, magazines
Subtitling features, documentaries and current affairs footage for the local multicultural broadcaster, SBS.
Fashion features for magazines such as Elle, Marie Claire, GQ and Vogue.
- Corporate and government (see list of recent substantial projects below)
Articles of association, mining conventions, employment and sales contracts, legal correspondence, tender
documents, court files.
- Academic Translation (full list of academic translations attached)
Over 20 published articles and 2 monographs in the fields of the humanities and social sciences, as well as
translations in these fields for conference presentations and private research.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Tutor, Media Translation Course MODL5103 Semester 1, 2016, University of New South Wales. Contact:
s.doherty@unsw.edu.au
- Convenor, workshop on WordFast translation software for Macquarie University postgraduate translation
class, April 2011. Contact Helen Slatyer
- Invigilator, paraprofessional interpreting tests for NAATI NSW since 2012.
TECHNICAL SKILLS/RESOURCES
- Platform: Macintosh OSX El Capitan 10.11.1 with Parallels installed for Windows applications
- Software: CAT Tools (MemoQ, Wordfast Classic); DTP applications (InDesign), Subtitling/Captioning
Software (Swift)
INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT
- Member of the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators (AUSIT) since 2009
o Chair, Editorial Committee for quarterly AUSIT magazine In Touch
o Book Review Editor, Editorial Committee for quarterly AUSIT magazine In Touch
o AUSIT NSW representative on NAATI Regional Advisory Committee (RAC), 2010-2012
o AUSIT NSW Committee member (Marketing & Events), 2009-2011
- Member of proz.com since 2006, 649 Pro-level Kudoz points (http://www.proz.com/profile/585450).
o No. 1 Finalist, First Annual ProZ.com Translation Contest: “Awakening”
- Presenter, “Machine Translation from the Practitioner Perspective”, forum on human versus machine
translation organised by the Multicultural Health Communication Service, Wednesday 3 December 2015.
Contact: nidia.rayamartinez@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au
- Pro-bono translation, Community Health Presentation for Foreign Aid NGO (1200wds for Traducteurs
Sans Frontiers/Translators Without Borders, March 2010)

2. MELISSA MCMAHON Curriculum Vitae
melissamcmahon@iinet.net.au
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RECENT CORPORATE-GOVERNMENT-LEGAL PROJECTS
- Expatriate Employee Policy document (8663 wds, November 2014)
- Burkina Faso Mining company Memorandum and Articles of Association (7200 wds, August 2014)
- Corporate-State Mining agreement (section, 18,000 words, June 2014)
- Academic article on reportage of climate change in the Pacific (9860 wds, December 2013:)
- Section of CHAD National Development Report (8710 wds, July 2013)
- Section of OECD report on corporate governance in Tunisia (10,320 wds, July 2013)
- Part of environmental impact statement for Moroccan power plant development (10,750 wds, April 2011)
- Power Supply Tender (Tunisia) (15000wds,September 2009)
- Works Council Framework Agreement (6500wds, December 2008)
Government Report (France) on Internet Policy in relation to Child Protection (34,200wds, April 2008)
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL TRANSLATIONS
2016
2015
Dolce: 80 authentic Italian sweet treats, cakes and desserts, by Laura Zavan (Murdoch Books)
Paris Style Guide, by Elodie Rambaud (Murdoch Books)
5:2 Lifestyle, by Delphine De Montalier and Charlotte Debeugny, (Murdoch Books)
2014 Good Without Gluten, by Frederique Jules, Jennifer Lepoutre and Mitsuru Yanase (Murdoch Books)
Frozen Yoghurt, by Constance Lorenzi and Mathilde Lorenzi (Murdoch Books)
Argentinian Street Food: Empanadas, helados and dulce de leche, by Enrique Zanoni and Gaston
Stivelmaher (Murdoch Books)
The Book of Tripe by Stéphane Reynaud (Murdoch Books)
Pies & Tarts by Stéphane Reynaud (Murdoch Books)
2013 Hamburger Gourmet, by David Japy, Elodie Rambaud and Victor Garnier (Murdoch Books)
New York Cult Recipes by Marc Grossman (Murdoch Books)
À La Mere De Famille: Artisanal Recipes by Julian Merceron and Jean Cazals (Hardie Grant)
2012 Secrets of Éclairs by Marianne Magnier-Moreno (Murdoch Books)
2011 Made in France: Cross-Stitch and Embroidery for Babies, Toddlers and Children, by Isabelle Leloup
(Murdoch Books)
Made in France: Everything Patchwork by Corinne Crasbercu (Murdoch Books)
Made in France: Baby Booties by Caroline De Hugo (Murdoch Books)
Made in France: Sweet Treats in cross-stitch by Tinou Le Joly Sénoville (Murdoch Books)
Barbecue by Stéphane Reynaud (Murdoch Books)
2010 Soft Toys to Knit and Crochet by Marie Claire (Murdoch Books)
Made in France: Knitting by Hikaru Noguchi (Murdoch Books)
Secrets of Macarons by José Maréchal (Murdoch Books)
Enigma 3 (brainteasers) by Sylvain Lhullier (Murdoch Books)
Enigmas Medieval by Maguy Ly, Nicole Masson, Yann Caudal, Pierre Martin (Murdoch Books)
Enigmas Celtic by Maguy Ly, Nicole Masson, Yann Caudal, Pierre Martin (Murdoch Books)
365 Good Reasons to Sit Down to Eat by Stéphane Reynaud (Murdoch Books)
Marie Claire Beauty Food by Josette Milgram (Murdoch Books)
2009 Made in France: Linen and Thread by Monique Lyonnet (Murdoch Books)
Made in France: Cross-stitch by Anne Shier-Fournel, Agnes Delage-Calvet (Murdoch Books)
Enigma 2 by Fabrice Mazza (Murdoch Books)
Enigma: The Big Book of Puzzles and Paradoxes by Fabrice Mazza (Murdoch Books)
Little Italy (cookbook) by Laura Zavan (Murdoch Books)
Verrines: Starters and Sweets in Small Glasses by José Maréchal (Murdoch Books)

3. MELISSA MCMAHON Curriculum Vitae
melissamcmahon@iinet.net.au
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Rôtis (roasts) by Stéphane Reynaud (Murdoch Books)
Marie Claire Face and Body by Josette Milgram (Murdoch Books)
2008 Ripailles: Traditional French Cuisine by Stéphane Reynaud (Murdoch Books)
PUBLISHED ACADEMIC TRANSLATIONS
2012 Monograph: Kuniichi Uno, A gênese de um corpo desconhecido / The genesis of an unknown
body. (Bilingual Portuguese/English edition of 11 essays in performance theory) (n-1
Publications, n-1publications.org).
Three articles: Philippe Soulez “Bergson: Theorist of the Political”; Vladimir Jankélévitch
“Bergson and Judaism”; Hisashi Fujita “Anarchy and Analogy: The Violence of Language in
Bergson and Sorel” in Alexandre Lefebvre and Melanie White (eds), Bergson, Politics and
Religion (Duke University Press)
2010 Monograph: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Islam and Open Society: Fidelity and Movement in the
Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (Dakar, CODESRIA).
2009 Three articles: Guy Cogeval, “Beyond Impressionism”; Sylvie Patry “Impressionism versus
Post-Impressionism?”; Stéphane Guégan “Van Gogh and Gauguin: the resurrection of
Delacroix?” in Masterpieces from Paris. Van Gogh, Gauguin & Beyond: Post-Impressionism
from the Musée d’Orsay (NGA Publishing).
2008 (with Richard Woodfield) Maryvonne Saison: “The People are Missing”, published in
Contemporary Aesthetics, (www.contempaesthetics.org).
2002 Six texts: Henri Bergson: “Good sense and classical studies” (1895); Letter to Gaston Lechalas
(1897); Correspondence with William James (1903-1910); Letter to Harald Höffding (1915);
Letter to Floris Delattre (extract 1935); “One must act as a man of thought and think as a man of
action” (1937), published in John Mullarkey & Keith Ansell Pearson (eds) Bergson: Key
Writings (New York: Continuum)
2001 Two articles: Roger Gentis & Jean Chesnaux: “Felix, Our Friend”; Jean-Pierre Faye: “Guattari,
the ‘Outsider’ of Psychoanalysis: a cartographical exploration of the unconscious’”, published in
Gary Genosko (ed.) Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (three
volumes - Vol. II: Guattari) (Routledge).
2000 Antonia Soulez: “Wittgenstein and Conversion in Philosophy: The Saving Word”, published in
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Vol 15, No 4 (Fall 2000)
Francois Zourabichvili: “The eye of montage: Bergson, Vertov, Deleuze”, published in Gregory
Flaxmann (ed) The Brain is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press).
1999 Two articles: Gilles Deleuze: “The conception of difference in Bergson”; Marie Cariou: “The
keyboards of forgetting”, published in John Mullarkey (ed.), The New Bergson (Manchester:
Manchester University Press)
Two articles: Serge Daney: “Before and after the image”; Artavazd Pelechian: “Contrapuntal
montage, or the theory of distance”, published in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in
Media and Culture, Vol 21, No 1.
1998 (with Charles Stivale) Gilles Deleuze: “How do we recognise structuralism?” published in
Charles J. Stivale, The “Two-Fold Thought” of Deleuze and Guattari: Intersections and
Animations (New York: Guilford Press).
Three articles: Gilles Deleuze: “The brain is the screen”, Raymond Bellour: “Thinking, telling;
the cinema of Gilles Deleuze”; (with Tom Conley) Eric Alliez: “On Deleuze’s Bergsonism”,
published in Jalal Toufic & Reda Bensmaia (eds) Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in
Media and Culture, Vol 20, No 3.