Rate My Professor Jinhyun Cho

Dr. Jinhyun Cho is a Senior Lecturer in the Translation and Interpreting Program of the Department of Linguistics within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University in 2016, with a doctoral thesis titled "Interpreting English Language Ideologies in Korea: Dreams vs Realities." Her professional journey at Macquarie University commenced around 2007, marked by her receipt of the Macquarie University New Staff Scheme award that year. Cho's research specializations encompass sociolinguistics and the sociolinguistics of translation and interpreting, with a focus on the intersections between gender, language ideologies, neoliberalism, and intercultural communication across diverse social contexts, including Australia and Korea.

Cho has produced significant scholarly works, including the books "English Language Ideologies in Korea: Interpreting the Past and Present" (2017), "Intercultural Communication in Interpreting: Power and Choices" (2022), and "Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets: Critical Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Health Care Interpreting" (2025). Notable journal articles include "Telephone Interpreting Challenges as Awareness Problems" (2023), "How Do Interpreters Not Know Language? Monolingual Approaches to Multilingual Minorities in Interpreting" (2026), "The Double-Edged Sword of Language: Empowerment and Precarity for Interpreters in a Chinese Border Hospital" (2026), and "Rethinking Translation and Interpreting in Chinese Borderlands in Times of Crisis: A Critical Sociolinguistics Approach" (2025). She has received prestigious awards such as the 2024 FMHHS Education Excellence Awards, MQ Research Acceleration Scheme (January 2022), Honorable Mention for the Macquarie University Early Career Researcher of the Year (2019), HDR Excellence Award (2015), and Macquarie University New Staff Scheme (2007). Additionally, Cho has presented invited talks including "Challenges to Healthcare Interpreting: Seeking a Way Forward" (18 August 2022), "‘That’s Not How We Speak’: Interpreting Monolingual Ideologies in Courtrooms" (4 July 2022), "Intercultural Communication in Interpreting" (15 February 2022), "To Translate or Not to Interpret, That's the Question" (15 February 2022), and "English Fever, Language Capital and American Dreams in South Korea" (25 March 2022).