Academic Profile : Faculty

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Asst Prof Kuo Szu-Yu, Arista
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities
 
Arista Szu-Yu KUO is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies in the Programme of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to that, she carried out her PhD studies at Imperial College London and worked as a visiting lecturer at City University London and a teaching fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London (UCL). Arista also worked as a freelance translator, interpreter and subtitler for over 10 years before she joined NTU, and was involved in a variety of projects in diverse fields, including finance, business and commerce, law, politics and diplomacy, innovation and technology, and cultural and creative industries. Her research interests include audiovisual translation, translator training, translation quality assessment, and cross-cultural communication.
Audiovisual translation, subtitling, translator training, translation quality assessment, and cross-cultural communication.
 
  • Singlish Transfer on Screen: An Audience Reception Study
Fellowships & Other Recognition
Visiting Professor, Film Studies Dept., King's College London (Aug 2018- Jan 2019); Visiting Researcher, Centre for Translation Studies, University College London (UCL) (May 2018 - Jun 2018)
 
Courses Taught
HT9201/HT5201; HT9202/HT5202; TI6102; TI6003; HC7888
 
Supervision of PhD Students
Zhang Quan (SOH/Chinese); Yang Jianan (IGP)