Prof. WANG Lidi

Ph.D. Supervisor

As a principal proponent of China’s education in translation and interpreting studies, Prof. WANG Lidi is a member of the National Steering Committee on Master’s Degree Education in Translation and Interpreting Studies in China. He also serves as a member of the Advisory Board for China Aptitude Tests for Translators and Interpreters (CATTI). Prof. Wang is active in research and has extensive links with the academic communities at home and abroad. He is coeditor-in-chief of Le Monde de la Traduction and a member of Advisory Committee of Compilation and Translation Review, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan. Internationally, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN Outreach Programme with Universities and also a member of Conference Internationale permanente d’Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interpretes (CIUTI).

Prof. Douglas ROBINSON 

Ph.D. Supervisor

Douglas Robinson was born and raised in the United States, and served as Professor of English at the University of Mississippi for 21 years, but has spent 14 years living and working in Finland, and translates mainly literary, dramatic, and cinematic texts from Finnish—and also two years in Russia and 12 years in Greater China. He is a prolific scholar, with 30 books, around 130 articles, and numerous book-length translations from Finnish, including works by Finland's two greatest novelists, Aleksis Kivi (Heath Cobblers and Kullervo, two plays from 1864, published in 1993, and The Brothers Seven, his great 1870 novel, published in 2017) and Volter Kilpi (Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia, published in 2020).

After teaching at the University of Jyvaskyla (1975-1981) and the University of Tampere (1983-1989) in Finland and the University of Mississippi in the United States (1989-2010), he came to Hong Kong as Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor and Head of English at Lingnan University (2010-2012), then moved to Hong Kong Baptist University as Chair Professor of English (2012-2020) and Dean of Arts (2012-2015). Upon his official retirement in 2020 he became Emeritus Professor of Translation, Interpreting, and Intercultural Studies at HKBU and Professor of Translation Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen).

Prof. ZHU Chunshen 

Ph.D. Supervisor

Chunshen Zhu has taught translation since 1982, at Fujian Normal University (1982-87), the National University of Singapore (1993-98), and then the City University of Hong Kong (1998-2017), before joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) as a professor of translation studies in 2017. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University, Guest Professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Adjunct Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, as well as an editorial board member for Chinese Translators Journal and ITT, and an International Advisory Board member for The Translator. Since 1986 and especially after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham in 1993, he has published constantly on translation studies as well as other subjects in both English and Chinese in journals such as Chinese Translators Journal, British Journal of Aesthetics, META, Target, Multilingua, TTR, Journal of Pragmatics, and ITT. He has won the Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Award three times (2000, 2001, and 2006). His recent publications include Fathoming Translation as Discursive Experience: Theorization and application (Routledge, 2021) and translations of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis (《自深深處》, Yilin, 2008, 2015, 2022) and Logan Pearsall Smith’s All Trivia (《浮生瑣記》, Yilin, 2022), among others. Currently, he is co-editing a collection of his co-authored papers on textual accountability in translation for Routledge.

Prof. CHAN Ho Yan Clara

Ph.D. Supervisor

CHAN Ho Yan Clara is Associate Professor of the School of Humanities and Social Science, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia, MA and BA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and LLB from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research interests focus on language and law, especially legal translation, legal terminology and bilingual law drafting. She has published widely in Translation Studies and Legal Linguistics, with eight monographs and dozens of academic papers.

Prof. LI Lan

Ph.D. Supervisor

Prof. LI Lan works as the Director of the Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.  She is an Associate Professor with MPhil and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Linguistics from the University of Exeter, UK.  She is also the Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, UK. She worked at Hong Kong Polytechnic University for nearly 20 years before joining CUHK(SZ).  Her research interests and publications cover lexicology, lexicography, metaphor study, professional discourse, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics. She has supervised 8 doctorate students and worked as a PhD external examiner at different universities. She is the Copy Editor of Lexicography, the Journal of Asialex, and a reviewer of a number of international journals.