IJET-34 (5–6 September 2026)
Speaker
Sara Kitaoji
Sara finds joy in working with authors from diverse backgrounds to develop and hone their unique voice in English. A serial language learner and former language teacher with a PhD in literary translation, she specializes in editing texts across the humanities and social sciences. Her translation of Hiroshi Mitani's Japan’s Meiji Revolution: Restoration and Reform in a Global Context (Springer) will be published in late 2026.
Sara is an accredited editor (AE) with the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. She was previously co-chair of IPEd's Standing Committee on Professional Development and a judge for IPEd's Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award. She is now a judge for World History Encyclopedia's Ink of Ages Fiction Prize and coordinates an international networking group for the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) in the UK.
As honing her human skills has become a priority in this AI era, Sara has been fine-tuning her nose and palate with the Wine Spirits Education Trust (WSET). Sara has (so far) studied German, Mandarin, Italian, Russian, French, Spanish, and Ancient Greek, but she also enjoys chatting with the wild animals who visit her outdoor office (garden) in Melbourne.