Current postgraduate students
Find out about current postgraduate students' research at the School of Languages and Cultures.
Alexander Davey
Alexander is researching scapegoat rituals in ancient Greece and the way they have been interpreted by scholars past and present.
Ashleigh McFall
Ashleigh McFall is researching what it means to be fa‘afafine from the perspectives of those who identify this way.
Chao (George) Guan
Chao's research explores the translation of indigenous/ethnic minority languages and cultural products from Māori and Evenki perspectives.
Chun Cheng
Chun Cheng is exploring Shen Congwen’s depictions of religious beliefs and rituals in West Hunan within the broader historical context of the May 4th Movement.
Ella Major
Ella is researching the way color acts as a language in fine art, and thus how art acts as a form of translation and intercultural communication.
Felicity Bishton
Felicity Bishton is researching the experiential and pedagogical dimensions of videogame translation as multimodal intercultural communication.
Isaac Bennett-Smith
Isaac is exploring modern stories which have been written in (or translated into) ancient languages, with a focus on ancient Greek.
Jason Featherstone-Wright
Jason is investigating the boundary between adaptation and translation through the example of later re-workings of Plautus’ Amphitruo.
Luoqi Yang
Luoqi Yang is researching 20th-century Chinese female poetry translation through the lens of sociosemiotic translation.
Lynne Bulloch
Lynne Bulloch is exploring the use of genres in the fiction of the Italian writer Melania Mazzucco.
Marcella Zanetti
Marcella's research explores the linguistic, cultural, scholarly and creative dimensions of literary translation.
Mariama Diallo
Mariama Diallo is exploring the translative oeuvre of the German-language poet Paul Celan and his work in translation.
Mariel Lettier
Mariel Lettier is researching cultural representation in the translation of young adult literature from Latin American Spanish into English.
Tam Maxwell
Tam is researching the Orphic-Dionysiac cult and how their beliefs reflect ancient Greek ideas about the identity of the soul after death.
Shuai Song
Shuai Song is researching a comparative study of AI and human translation in literary texts through examining "The Analects of Confucius".
Voon Yi Thean
Voon Yi is curating and translating a cross-cultural vocabulary of Sinitic lacunae, inspired by Lin Yutang’s “Critical Vocabulary” (The Importance of Living).
Wing Hang Eric Yip
Eric Yip is researching on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Chinese government in the late nineteenth century.
Yiwen Xu
Yiwen Xu is researching gender, identity, and media practice in contemporary China, particularly focusing on gender antagonism on social media.
Yuki Gabriella Minami
Yuki Gabriella Minami is studying the role of Zainichi and their depiction in images during the Korean War through Japanese and Korean media and literarature.
Yulun (Darren) Zhang
Yulun Zhang is researching the translation of Latin American work “Guerras del Interior” by Joseph Zárate portraying indigeneity for Japanese readers.