Lisha Xu is a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. She obtained her PhD in Translation from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2021. Before she joined UoG, she worked as a Teaching Fellow in Chinese and Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. 

Her research interests are in theatre translation and literary translation in general, especially translating xiqu for the Anglophone stage and the study of Chinese translators of the early 20th-century diaspora. She has been commissioned to edit a special issue of JoSTrans on theatre translation, to be published in 2024-25, and is currently preparing a research monograph on the topic of xiqu translation.

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Prior publications

• Yang, Hanru
  Unnatural Narrative in Translating Novels and Short Stories

Translation Studies MSc:

Translation Studies: Theory and Practice

Translation of Literature and Culture

Approaches to Translation and Professional Environment

Mandarin Advanced and Language Study