Prof. Dr. Chantal Wright

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

Professorin für Creativity and the Language Industry

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

Kreativität und Übersetzen, Übersetzungswissenschaften, Stilistik, Diversity und die Buchbranche, Mehrsprachigkeit und Exophonie, Literarisches Übersetzen

Lehrtätigkeit

• BA: Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe
• MA: Theorie und Praxis des Übersetzens

Berufserfahrung

• Professorin für Creativity and the Language Industry
  ZHAW
  02 / 2024 - heute
• Co-Leiterin des Instituts für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen
  ZHAW
  10 / 2022 - 07 / 2024
• Reader
  University of Warwick
  2019 - 2022
• Associate Professor
  University of Warwick
  2015 - 2022
• Assistant Professor
  University of Warwick
  2014 - 2015
• Visiting Fellow; Honorary Fellow
  University of Ottawa; Durham University
  2013 - 2014
• Assistant Professor
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  2010 - 2013
• McCain Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
  Mount Allison University
  2008 - 2010
• Lecturer
  University of Alberta
  2007 - 2008

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Ausbildung

• PhD / Literary Translation
  University of East Anglia
  2003 - 2007
• MA / Literary Translation
  University of East Anglia
  2001 - 2002
• Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education / TESOL World-wide
  Open University
  2001 - 2001
• BA / Modern and Medieval Languages
  Girton College, University of Cambridge
  1994 - 1998

Netzwerk

Mitglied in Netzwerken

• European Society for Translation Studies - EST
• Translators Association (GB)

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1011-3717

Auszeichnungen

Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation
White Pine Press
03 / 2012

Social Media

LinkedIn

Medienpräsenz

Lost to translation: How English readers miss out on foreign female writers

Projekte

Multilingual Open Science: Verbesserung der Auffindbarkeit von Übersetzungen in den Bibliothekskatalogen der Schweiz / Projektleiter:in / laufend

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

• Vassallo, H. and Wright, C. (2024) 'Changing the landscape : diversity and translated fiction in the UK publishing industry', Lingue e linguaggi, 64, pp. 173–196. doi: 10.1285/i22390359v64p173.
• Wright, C. (2023) 'Crossing the borders of social class : social mobility as translational experience', The Translator, 29(4), pp. 480–493. doi: 10.1080/13556509.2023.2275808.
• Batchelor, K. and Wright, C. (2023) 'Translation, trouvailles', The Translator, 29(4), pp. 401–407. doi: 10.1080/13556509.2023.2276493.

Bücher, peer-reviewed

Wright, C. and Batchelor, K. (eds) (2023) Translation, trouvailles. Taylor & Francis. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrn20/29/4.

Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed

Wright, C. (2024) 'Creativity is critical : the empowerment of language industry professionals in the age of AI', in Massey, G., Ehrensberger-Dow, M., and Angelone, E. (eds) Handbook of the Language Industry. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 489–494. doi: 10.1515/9783110716047-022.

Weitere Publikationen

Wright, C. (2025) 'Women and early modern cultures of translation : beyond the female tradition : by Hilary Brown (Book review)', Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, 117(1), pp. 129–131. doi: 10.3368/m.117.1.129.

Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

Delorme Benites, A. et al. (2025) 'Disruption in flux : reinventing a Translation & Interpreting Institute in the era of AI', in CIUTI Conference 2025 "Language Mediation in Flux: Assessing the Impact of Generative AI", Madrid, Spain, 20-21 May 2025.

Publikationen vor Tätigkeit an der ZHAW

• 2022: ‘Linguistics and Social Sciences’ by Michel Foucault. Theory, Culture & Society. Co-translated from French with Jonathan Schroeder [‘Linguistiques et sciences sociales’, Dits et écrits, 1954–1975, Vol. 1, Gallimard, 2001].
• 2021: ‘Old Erfurt’ by Georg Klein. Chicago Review 64 (1/2/3). Translated from German [‘Old Erfurt’, Von den Deutschen, Rowohlt, 2002].
• 2020: “What is my desire?”, A response to Lawrence Venuti’s Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic (2019).
• 2019: ‘What is at stake in a theory of rhythm’; ‘The name of Ophelia’; and ‘Modernity is a battle’ by Henri Meschonnic. In: M. Pajevic (ed), The Henri Meschonnic Reader, University of Edinburgh Press. pp.66-83; 269-278; 281-290. Translated from French.
• 2018: The Age of Translation by Antoine Berman. Routledge. Translated from French [L’Âge de la traduction, Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2008].
• 2016: Literary Translation, Routledge.
• 2014: ‘Before Chamisso: The role of the Munich DaF writing competitions and anthologies in the promotion of a ‘deutsche Literatur von außen’, 1979-1987’, special issue of Oxford German Studies entitled ‘Post-War Literature and Institutions’, pp.20-36.
• 2013: Yoko Tawada’s Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation, University of Ottawa Press. Translated from German ['Porträt einer Zunge', Überseezungen, Konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke, 2002].
• 2012: A Hand Full of Water by Tzveta Sofronieva, White Pine Press. Translated from German [Eine Hand voll Wasser, Verlag UnArtIg Aschersleben, 2008]. Winner of the 2012 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation.
• 2010: ‘Exophony and Literary Translation. What it means for the translator when a writer adopts a new language.' Target – International Journal of Translation Studies, pp.22-39.

Übrige Publikationen

• 2023: The Pasta Detectives by Andreas Steinhöfel. Carlsen (revised edition, previously published by Chicken House/Scholastic, 2010). Translated from German [Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten, Carlsen, 2008]. Shortlisted for the 2011 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation. Winner of the 2011 NASEN Inclusive Children’s Book Award.
• 2024: Yougottabekiddingme! by Martin Muser. Carlsen. Translated from German [Kannawoniwahrsein 1, Carlsen, 2018].

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