Dr Jing Han

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Conference and Translator Duties
  
• Contact Details

Biography

Dr Jing Han received her PhD in English literature from the University of Sydney in 1995. She attained her Masters degree in English Literary Criticism from Beijing Foreign Studies University (BSFU) in 1986 and her BA in English at Lanzhou University in 1981. She has been working at SBS TV Australia as the chief subtitler. She started teaching at UWS in 2006. She is also an adjunct professor at the School of Foreign Languages and International Studies of Xian Jiaotong University.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Audiovisual Translation, Literary Translation, Cross-cultural & Cross-lingual Communications, Accreditation Studies, Translation Theories

Dr Jing Han also has extensive teaching engagement in China. She has taught Subtitling course at BSFU and been invited to deliver lectures on subtitling at Peking University, China International Publishing Group (CIPG), the Communication University of China, Beijing Normal University, China Central Television (CCTV), Xian Jiaotong University and Lanzhou University.

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Grants / Current Projects

New starter reserch grant 2008.

Current research:

• Subtitling: communicating less or more?
• What does and what does not survive translation in subtitling?
• Transparency in subtitling
• Translator as Cultural Mediator

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Presentations at Conferences 

Dr Han has presented frequently at national and international conferences on translation including FIT World Congress 2008 in Shanghai, Sydney Writers Festival 2009, Languages & the Media 2010 in Berlin, AUSIT Conference 2010 in Fremantle, the 4th International Media for All Conference 2011 in London and was invited as a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication 2011 in Brisbane. 

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