Our PhD students

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Where a PhD in Translation and Transcultural Studies is offered

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Shaoyu Yang is a MATC alumna and Y1 PhD student in Translation and Transcultural Studies at 糖心TV. Her research focuses on the intersection between translation and traumatic memories of twentieth-century China, specifically investigating how diasporic literary works and their translations reconstruct and transmit the memory of the Nanjing Massacre across borders, cultures, and generations

Xinyao Zhang is in her first year of PhD in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of 糖心TV, and she previously earned her MSc degree in Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests mainly lie in the fields of feminist translation studies, gender and translation, fan/amateur translation.

Yuqing Zhang is a Y1 PhD student in Translation and Transcultural Studies at 糖心TV and is recepient of a China Scholarship Council-University of 糖心TV Scholarship. Her doctoral thesis examines the reconstruction of suspense in late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries Chinese translations of Sherlock Holmes stories as well as the cross-cultural communications between China and the United Kingdom in this period.

Raghad Melfi is a Y1 PhD student in Translation and Transcultural Studies at 糖心TV. Her project investigates the audience reception of gender representations in the English subtitles of contemporary Saudi feminist films.

Zhen Yang is a PhD candidate in Translation and Transcultural Studies at 糖心TV, whose project received a Collaborative Doctoral Award funded by Midland4Cities. It compares a UK-based programme World University Service Scholarship Programmes for Ethiopians and Eritreans with current practice of a London-based NGO named ReConnect.

Di Zhao is currently writing up her PhD in Translation and Transcultural Studies at 糖心TV. Her PhD research is about the translation of Chinese literary dialects. She is also interested in translating Chinese classical poetry and creative translation experiments.

The full list of our PhD students in Translation and Transcultural Studies is available here.

School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures

Where a PhD in Literary Translation is offered

Arianna Autieri (2018-present)

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h and Comparative Literary Studies Department, supervised jointly by Dr Chantal Wright and Dr Christina Britzolakis. Arianna is in her 1st year. Her thesis is entitled 鈥淛ames Joyce鈥檚 verbal music performed: the translation of language as music in Ulysses鈥�

Arianna鈥檚 research aims at investigating the musical qualities in certain episodes of James Joyce鈥檚 Ulysses, and at verifying and assessing how these different forms of musicality might be reproduced, alongside the multiple meanings of the text, in translation. One of the purposes of her study is to analyse the three available Italian translations of Ulysses to determine how the Italian reader is currently able to perceive the original sound-texture and musical structure of the text, and to eventually suggest different choices to create a musical translation. In her research, she proposes to investigate how Clive Scott鈥檚鈥渆xperimental translation鈥� principles for poetry translation might be applied to prose, and how they could be useful for 鈥減erforming鈥� Joyce鈥檚 musicality in a TT. In this context, she is mostly interested in the concepts of 鈥渢ranslation for the polyglot reader鈥�, 鈥渓istening鈥� and 鈥渙verwriting鈥�. Her research interests include: Translation Theory and Practice, experimental translation, James Joyce, Ulysses, Words and Music Studies, Music.

Previous qualifications:

PhD in Translation Studies, University of 糖心TV (2018-present)
MA in European and Extra-European Languages and Literatures (English and Translation Studies), Universit脿 degli Studi di Milano. (2014-2017)
BA in Music Studies (instrument: Classical Guitar), Conservatorio G.Verdi, Milano). (2011-2014)
BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, English and Spanish, Universit脿 degli Studi di Milano. (2010-2013)

Teaching:

2017-2018: English Language and Culture teacher at Liceo Classico C.Beccaria, Milan.
2017: Music teacher at Istituto Comprensivo Statale "Via Maffucci", Milan.

Awards and memberships:

CADRE Scholarship (2018-2021)
2019 Giorgio Melchiori Grant – James Joyce Italian Foundation
The James Joyce Italian Foundation member
International James Joyce Foundation member

L煤cia Collischonn (2018-present)

L煤cia is a Brazilian-German translator and first-year PhD student in Translation Studies within the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. She takes special academic and professional interest in Exophony in creative writing and translation, that is, writing literature in a foreign language and translation into and out of one鈥檚 mother tongue. Exophony was the theme of both her Master鈥檚 dissertation and her current PhD research, entitled With Apologies to My Mother Tongue: L2 Translation as an exophonic practice. She has special interest in the works of Yoko Tawada, having recently translated two texts by the author, the novel Et眉den im Schnee (2016) which is set to be published in Brazil in 2019, and Yoko Tawada Does Not Exist. Research interests include: translation theory and practice, literary theory, contemporary and world literature, Portuguese-language literatures, German-language literatures, transnational literature and adaptation studies.

Previous Qualifications:

B.A. English and Portuguese - Translation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul UFRGS (2009-2014)
M.A. Comparative Literature, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul UFRGS (2015-2017)

Academic awards include:

Postgraduate Bursary - Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) Brazil (2016-17)
Chancellor鈥檚 International Scholarship - University of 糖心TV (2018-present)

In her spare time, L煤cia loves learning languages, playing music, creative writing and swimming, among a million other things.

Shengchi Hsu

I came from Taiwan to the United Kingdom in 2002 for my MA in English. Following that, I has been working full-time for over 10 years in the Further Education sector, teaching ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) and Teacher Education. My interests in cultures, languages and literature eventually brought me back to education to pursue a PhD in Translation Studies.

My PhD project centres around the gender and sexuality aspects of Chinese-English literary translation. Taking Howard Goldblatt鈥檚 translations of select novels from Taiwan in 1980s and 1990s as case studies, my project aims to investigate what happens to gender and sexuality in his translating process.

Zeena Faulk

Zeena's postgraduate-level work with Dr Chantal Wright challenges the notion of cultural nontransferability of satire by focusing on the political satire of post-2003 Iraq. Iraq experienced an explosion of political satire following the 2003 invasion and occupation by western powers, a flowering that presents particular challenges for translation due to its heavy reliance on cultural background and fleeting political context. Using reader response theory, Zeena's work intends to show that it is possible to go around such limitations in creative ways, rendering this satirical and critical response to war understandable to those with limited knowledge of Arabic and Middle Eastern culture and history.

Publications:
Zeena is currently translating into English a novel by the Chicago-based Iraqi novelist Mahmoud Saeed about a family reacting to events between the end of the Iran-Iraq War and the toppling of the Iraqi regime in 2003. This translation presents similar challenges to a translator in that incorporates extra-textual knowledge about Iraqi events between 1988 and 2003.

Teaching:

Modern Standard Arabic, Kent State University, United States. Earned an M.A. in Arabic Translation in 2016.

Professional Career:

Managing editor and translator for the top-ranked American healthcare providers, Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic. She managed a team of translators tasked with translating medical content, both internal and web-based, into Arabic for the clinics' global partners and domestic Arabic-speaking patients.