Kate Moore is a senior lecturer in English translation studies at the School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Kate Moore

She has published numerous articles on speech communication and oral history and has co-authored language text books.

She has also contributed to the Dictionary of American Family Names published by Oxford University Press and is currently on the advisory board of the Spanish journal Historia, Antropología y Fuentes Orales.

Before coming to Finland as a Fulbright Scholar in cross-cultural studies, Kate was a lecturer and teaching fellow at Columbia University in New York. She has studied Finnish at Columbia University and at the University of Helsinki. Even so, her most valuable language-learning experience was working on a Finnish cucumber farm.

In her free-time Kate loves to cook and is an avid antique collector. While she is absolutely hopeless at recognising and gathering Finnish mushrooms, she has learned to fish with family and friends in the Finnish archipelago in her small wooden boat, `Salmon Ella'.

Kate holds both British and American passports, but her not-so-secret dream is to become a Finnish citizen.