Translation and Transcultural Research Cluster

• A masterclass and public conference, sponsored by the Institute of Advanced studies with renowned French translator, Nadine Gassie (November 2018).
• A masterclass and public conference, sponsored by the Institute of Advanced studies with Professor Anthony Pym, Chair of Translation Studies, University of Melbourne (June 2019).
• ‘Are you Cybersafe’, a UWA-sponsored AUSIT (Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators) event for professional translators and translation students.
• 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).
• Public lecture by Steven Schilizzi on ‘The last indigenous people of Europe: the Sami. But for how long?’, 22 October 2019.
• AUSIT (Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators, a professional organisation) has awarded their Excellence in translation awards to two UWA students, Jessica Donaldson and Dakshayani Shankar. Well done!

• ‘The Translation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover into Arabic’, Yousef Albudairi, PhD thesis, begun November 2019.
• ‘Translating Contemporary Italian Voices: a source-oriented approach’, Caitlin Overton, PhD thesis, begun November 2019.
• Marta Perez, ‘Transcription and Translation of New Norcia Archives in Spanish’, Abbot Placid Spearritt Memorial Scholarship.
• Anna Gadd and Caitlin Overton, Translation into English of Riccardo Cavaliere’s ‘I due Fratelli’, to be published in Colloquy with a scholarly introduction.
• Anna Gadd and Caitlin Overton, Translation into English of Riccardo Cavaliere’s ‘Poemas’, to be published in Colloquy with a scholarly introduction, Atelier Internazionale.
• Anna Gadd, Adaptation of Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobbie’s Riddle to Cremonese dialect for the stage.
• Translation of Yasmina Reza’s On Arthur Schopenhauer’s Sledge, Hélène Jaccomard and Vivienne Glance [forthcoming].

Maïa Ponsonnet (Linguistics) has recently been studying how body parts contribute to descriptions of emotions across Australian languages. Many Australian Indigenous languages have creative body-based expressions for emotions. For instance, ‘have a flowing belly’ can mean ‘feel good’; ‘have someone in the throat’ can mean being in love with them; etc. - there are hundreds of these.

Maïa is currently working on a website that will present these expressions in a simple and attractive way, to the attention of Indigenous language workers, translators, and all those interested in how human languages, and Australian languages in particular, express emotions. The website will be announced as soon as the page is ready for public release.

• Yousef Albudairi, Retranslation of Literature: In Search for the most Appealing Translation Strategy: The Case of the Arabic Versions of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Supervisors: Hélène Jaccomard, Kieran Dolan, Mohammed Bennamoun.
• Caitlin Overton, The limits and acceptability of source-oriented translation: the case of readers’ responses to translated Italian literature. Supervisors: Hélène Jaccomard, John Kinder.
• Stephanie Schimkowitsch, Meaningful Engagement with Machine Translations – How Does Technology Affect Contemporary Translators? Supervisors: Alexandra Ludewig.

• Shu Qu, The Translation into English of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.
• Dakshayani Shankar, On translating into English Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco and Chemin d’école.

• Rowena Putland, Towards an Ethics of Surtitles: the case of three French plays.
  • Supervisors: Hélène Jaccomard, Paul Gibbard.

• Fan Yang, Translation of classic texts of Traditional Chinese medicine
• Shuxia Zhou, A Relevance Theory Perspective: Translation, Construction and Communication of Drama Discourse: the Case of Yasmina Reza’s plays translated into Chinese