Mark Halley

Background

About Mark Halley

I am an incoming J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School with an interest in labor and employment law, constitutional law, and impact litigation. Until August, I am also a tenured associate professor of American Sign Language/English Interpreting at the University of North Florida. I conducted my dissertation research in the Department of Interpretation and Translation at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, where I studied the work of interpreters in the 1988 Deaf President Now protest. My research agenda centers around a) contextualized role enactment of signed language interpreters in contentious political settings and b) the intersections of language and technology with interpreting practice and education. In addition to numerous articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals, I have presented at conferences in the United States, England, Italy, Poland, Scotland, the Netherlands, and Qatar. I have also been a certified interpreter in private practice since 2011 and have worked in community and video relay service settings. My greatest joys in life come from walking my dog, Elio, having advocated for faculty rights and academic freedom as President of the University of North Florida chapter of the United Faculty of Florida (UFF-UNF) from 2024-2025, and once being described as "basically correct" by Noam Chomsky.