Translation and Transcultural Research Cluster
About us
The Translation and Transcultural Research Cluster was established five years ago when a Master of Translation Studies was introduced at UWA. Our main purpose is to achieve international research excellence in the cross-disciplinary field of translation and transcultural studies in order to advance the understanding of social and cultural issues of contemporary significance, such as translation and multilingualism, transcultural identity construction and communication.
Our goals
- Create a research environment to complement and enhance translation and transcultural studies.
- Provide a platform for intra-school research collaboration within UWA by drawing on a well-informed interest in languages, and on research and teaching expertise in study areas such as:
- Provide a forum for proactive research and teaching collaborations with world-class universities and centres in the field, such as the Institute of Translation Studies, Zhejiang University; the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing; the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Auckland; and other Translation and Transcultural Studies within the World Universities Network (WUN).
- Attract scholars and HDR students by providing expertise in various aspects of the field.
- Attract research income from internal and external stakeholders, including professional organisations and translation and interpreting practitioners.
- Establish UWA as a leading research and teaching centre of translation and transcultural studies as a cross-disciplinary field in Australia.
Community engagement and research projects
- Community engagement
- Current research projects
- Indigenous languages
Our researchers
- Dr Dale Adams
- Dr Ned Curthoys
- Dr Anna Gadd
- Dr Paul Gibbard
- Dr David Glance
- Dr Vivienne Glance
- Dr Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
- Dr Kyoko Kawasaki
- Dr John Kinder
- Professor Hélène Jaccomard
- Dr Rocco Loiacono (Curtin University)
- Professor Alexandra Ludewig
- Dr Neil O'Sullivan
- Dr Maïa Ponsonnet
- Dr Steven Schilizzi
- Associate Professor Xianlin Song
- Dr Yu Tao
- Dr Cheng Zeng
Our research students
- Current PhD theses
- Current Master theses
- Recently awarded Masters of Research
- PhD candidates commencing in 2021
Publications
French language
- A translation of the manuscript journal of Théodore Leschenault’s travels in Australia, 1800-1802: Paul Gibbard, Théodore Leschenault’s Voyage to Australia: the Journal and Letters of the Botanist of the Baudin Expedition(UWA Publishing, forthcoming).
- Nadine Gassie, “Les enjeux des repérages situationnels dans la traduction : le cas de Tim Winton et de David Malouf », Essays in French Literature and Culture 57, 2020, 9-26. (Publication of the French Programme)
Translation studies
- Translators’ interventions (introductions, prefaces, footnotes): Hélène Jaccomard, “Teaching the art of ‘judicious’ translators’ interventions”, Cultus (forthcoming)
News and events
Young Translator of the Year awards
The School of Humanities sponsored the ‘Young Translator of the Year’, an initiative of AUSIT (Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators) involving community schools in nine languages (October 2018 and October 2019)
Read more2019 LCNAU Conference
The Fifth Biennial Colloquium of the Languages & Cultures Network of Australian Universities (LCNAU) will be held at the University of Western Australia, often described as Australia’s most beautiful university campus, on 27-29 November 2019.
Read morePast events
Webinars
- 10 September 2020: “NAATI certification system”, via Zoom.
Lectures and Masterclasses, Institute of Advanced Studies, UWA
- Anthony Pym, Melbourne University, “Neural Machine Translation and the Translation Professions”, , September 2019
- A/Prof. Marc Orlando, Monash University, “Challenges in Training and Educating 21st-century interpreters”, and “On Loyalty and Fidelity”, UWA, March-April 2017
Conferences
- November 2018: Keynote speakers, French Translator Nadine Gassie on « Les enjeux des repérages situationnels dans la traduction: le cas de Tim Winton et de David Malouf » (forthcoming publication in Essays in French Literature and Culture, 2020), Australian Society for French Studies Annual Conference.
