Versatile PhD Panel Discussion: PhD Careers in Language Translation

Versatile PhD Career Panel discussions take place in online forums. They are open to all Versatile PhD members, and as a UW-Madison student, you are eligible to join if you haven’t already.

Humanities and Social Science PhDs with strong fluency in two languages can find satisfying work as translators. Either employed by an organization or as freelancers, PhDs translate a wide variety of documents. If you are fluent in any two languages, you can probably be a translator.