Antonia Yanxi Wu

Biography

Antonia has been working as a freelancer and later an in-house translator for over ten years. She has been translating commercial & promotional, business, technical and literary texts for many world-renowned companies and organisations. She has extensive experience in translator training, and great interest in translation quality assessment, Chinese philosophy, feminist translation, 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

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

• Course Director of PG-Diploma English-Chinese Translation and Interpreting, Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (1/5/2017 - present)

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