My journey in Glasgow University
I’m Harold. I’m a former MSc Translation Study student as part of the Glasgow-Nankai Joint Graduate School, and now I’m a PhD student working with Billy Grove and Enza De Francisci on comics and gender.
My journey in Glasgow University
I’d like to begin my presentation with a small slice of my four-and half-a-year journey which I designed as a key comic panel of my student experience. One of my earliest memories as a first year MSc student was being asked to translate the opening of Mrs Dalloway in Chinese but for young readers and I wondered what my translation could bring to such a literary classic. Enza, who was our course lead, looked at me and went: “You can draw, so draw it!” These two simple words changed my life forever igniting the first light that led me to be here and become who I am today.
My journey in Glasgow University
I also remember our amazing Sessional course with Collin Barron— his constructive comments four years after the course still ties in closely to my practice.
My journey in Glasgow University
Over the years I particularly appreciated the well-rounded course design, the seminars and guest talks (for example fat the Stirling Maxwell centre), the Nankai-Glasgow joint conference in 2018, the Summer School in Glasgow in 2019, the teaching opportunities as a current GTA, and our class translation project we devised with our former colleague Mavis Ho, which was published in 2020. I won’t forget our classroom, the college library, the foreign language building, the Glasgow hallway in Nankai’s main building, and Dazhong road we walked on for hundreds of times.
My journey in Glasgow University
Our university is a platform that gives me opportunities to meet peer students and scholars from all over the world. Thanks to Zoom I teach our students in China as a GTA, have attended Summer Schools in Spain and Canada, and conferences in the UK, the US, Canada, France and Belgium. I have also joined two academic networks, worked as an editor in academic journals, been a peer reviewer and—my childhood dream—a digital artist.
To finish, one thing I would change about the University is the way we connect with Nankai students. I hope our Nankai students will be able to engage more with students and scholars on our Glasgow campus, via email, in seminars, during collaborative research, not just online but face-to-face in an ideal world. Thank you once more for the opportunity to share my journey with you!
