Antonia Yanxi Wu

Biography

Antonia has over ten years of experience as a translator and interpreter, having worked both as a freelancer and as an in-house professional. She has rich experience in public service interpreting in education and housing matters, and translated promotional, business, and technical texts for numerous world-renowned companies and organizations across industries such as fashion, IT, automotive, medical and publishing. With extensive expertise in game and software localisation, branding, transcreation, and translator training, she also has a strong interest in Chinese philosophy, literature, feminism and children's literature translation.

Qualifications

• Fellow Higher Education Academy,

• Chartered Linguist (Translator) Chartered Institute of Linguists,

• Full Member Chartered Institute of Linguists,

• MA Translation and Interpreting Newcastle University,

• Higher Education Certificate of English Studies Aston University,

• BA Chinese Language and LIterature Tianjin Foreign Studies Universty,

Appointments

University of Essex

• Senior Lecturer of English-Chinese Translation and Interpreting, Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (1/6/2015 - present)

• Course Director of MA English-Chinese Translation and Professional Practice, Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (1/1/2018 - present)