Claire Haffner Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

• Edit, translate, and fact-check content for hit games Gardenscapes, Township, and Manor Matters • Write and edit copy for social media, ads, company website, app stores, and PR• Maintain in-house style guide and implement editorial guidelines• Write knowledge base articles in RU and EN on language, in-game terminology, time-saving processes, and culturalization issues• Lead trainings for in-house editors, translators, and partner studios on providing useful feedback• Run linguistic QA for new games prior to soft launches and work with partner studios to finalize products• Manage process of brainstorming names for new games across locales• Interview translator and customer service candidates, assess test tasks, and onboard new hires

• Translated Mykhailo Nazarenko's story "Big Nose and the Faun" (Носатый и фавн) for Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora (Detroit: Atthis Arts, 2023) • Translated documents for Human Constanta pertaining to human rights abuses in Belarus following the 2020 election and ensuing protests (Sept. 2020 - 2021)• Translated subtitles for the 1969 Georgian film “Look at These Young People!” for Klassiki (Feb. 2021)• Translated articles for the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Bear Market Brief on Russian domestic politics, economics, and finance (Sept. 2017 - Jan. 2018)

• Provided research support, fact-checking, and preliminary writing for program experts• Edited the 2018 CSIS publication "Religion and Violence in Russia: Context, Manifestations, and Policy"• Composed academic literature reviews and executive summaries for program publications

Penza Region, Russian Federation

• Led daily literature seminars and conversation classes for groups of 5-15 undergraduates at Penza State University• Gave weekly lectures on American art, history, and culture to class of 60 undergraduates• Ran weekly meetings of political and current events discussion club for students and professors, and organized additional cultural activities, holiday celebrations, and film screenings for students

Calasparra, Spain

• Co-taught English and science classes for 1st–8th grade students

B.A., Slavic Languages And Literatures With Honors; Minor In English & Creative Writing

Received a Foreign Language Acquisition Grant from UChicago to study in St. Petersburg, Russia through the Bard-Smolny Summer Language.

M.S., Russian Politics And Society

Coursework completed in the IMARES program at the European University at St. Petersburg (2016-2017)

M.A., Russian Language