I'm Kieran Maynard.

You can reach me at kieranmaynard[at]gmail[dot]com.

about me

I am a linguist turned tech content policy analyst and operations manager with a passion for developing data-driven, scalable solutions for thorny content problems.

• 8+ years working on content policy development and operations in big tech
• 4+ years experience writing complex SQL queries to drive analysis and insights
• Experience coding in Python and AppsScript
• Fluent in English, Chinese and Japanese
• BA in Linguistics
• Father of two

find me online

• LinkedIn: Kieran Maynard
• Blog: kiroma.wordpress.com
• GitHub: github.com/krmaynard/
• This profile page: krmaynard.github.io/

publications & awards

• University of Guam - 'Lost Chapters in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Translation and Commentary'
• Grand prize, Japanese original speech competition

literary translations

• Murakami Haruki - Lost Chapters in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Japanese)
• Kim Un-Su "Terribly Easy Writing Lessons" (digest version, Korean)
• Zhang Jiajia 张嘉佳 "The Old Love Letter" (Chinese)

research

• 沈从文的《丈夫》与戴乃迭的英译 (2013)
• Cross-media Study of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum in Film & Translation (2012)
• 张爱玲《倾城之恋》里的时间观 (2012)
• Animals in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's “Rashōmon”「羅生門」の動物 (2012)
• Toward a Japanese “linguistics of speech”: Collocation in the BCCWJ (2010)