Dr Shani Tobias is a lecturer in Translation Studies and Education Coordinator of the Monash Intercultural Lab at Monash University. She was Director of the Master of Interpreting and Translation Studies from 2020-2023.

Dr Tobias completed a PhD in Japanese-English literary translation exploring the translation of metaphor, and has continued to publish in the fields of literary and cultural translation, as well as translator and interpreter pedagogy and professional development. Her current funded research projects include international collaborations in the area of COIL and online intercultural exchange, and an Australian government funded project on the Chinese translation of Australian children’s literature. 

Dr Tobias has supervised several PhD projects in wide-ranging areas of Translation Studies, including literary translation, trauma translation, community translation, audiovisual translation, and self-translation.

Dr Tobias is also a NAATI-certified translator (Japanese-English) with over 20 years of professional translation experience.