Diane Grosklaus Whitty is an ATA (American Translators Association) certified translator and the owner of Nuanced Translations, LLC based in Verona, WI. She is very active in the Madison translator and interpreter community and served as Board Member of the Midwest Association of Translators and Interpreters (MATI) from 2011 to 2014.
From 1982 to 1986, she served as translator and interpreter for the Australian Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro, where in 1997 she taught Portuguese-to-English literary translation at the Pontifical Catholic University. Since 2010, she has served as English language consultant for História Ciências Saúde – Manguinhos, an interdisciplinary journal of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation that explores history, the sciences, and health.
Among the books she has translated and published are: The Sanitation of Brazil by Gilberto Hochman, The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross by Laura de Mello e Souza, and Activist Biology by Regina Horta Duarte. She is currently at work on a book of feature articles by Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum, which will be published by Graywolf in 2019.