Joe McClinton

Joe McClinton has been translating professionally since 1973, and currently specializes primarily in law, intellectual property and corporate public relations. He also has extensive past experience in technical and financial translation. Recent clientele includes two German supreme courts, numerous international law firms, and upper management at two German-based multinationals, as well as the Municipal Museums in Nuremberg and SNCF in Paris. He is the editor of a volume on legal translation to appear in the American Translators Association’s monograph series. He works from German, French and Italian into English.

Fields in which he has regularly translated over the years include nuclear engineering, materials science, petroleum engineering, semiconductor fabrication and information technology. He has also translated French books and educational CD-ROMs in paleogeology, vulcanology, music history and Egyptology, as well as Italian books on art history and collectibles. His theater translations have been seen at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and the Stratford Festival in Canada. Currently he also translates librettos and creates supertitles for the Ars Minerva opera company, which has the mission of staging previously unknown Italian operas that have lain unperformed in the archives at Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana since the 17th century.