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Nannan Liu

Assistant Professor of Translation Studies

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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Background

Nannan Liu studies the intersection of interpreting, computational and corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics. She has published articles in Interpreting, book chapters and conference papers. She is the author of the Python library muldichinese, a multidimensional analyzer of language variation in social contexts, and led the creation of the EU-funded (UNIC) platform, the first open-access and open-source data infrastructure in translation and interpreting studies.

Prior to joining ³ÉÈËAVÊÓƵ, Liu was the European Commission’s Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Fellow and an adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a postdoctoral research fellow at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is an accredited interpreter and translator (Level I Certificate of Translation Proficiency in the China Aptitude Test for Translators and Interpreters; top). Liu provided simultaneous and consecutive interpreting services to the United Nations Geneva Office, public and private sectors, and community centers. Her book-length translation received the Wenjin Book Recommendation Award from the Chinese National Library in 2023.

Select Publications

  • Liu, N. & Russo, M. (in press). "A value-sensitive metadata schema for interpreting corpora: Implementation on the Unified Interpreting Corpus (UNIC) platform." . 
  • Liu, M. & Liu, N. (2024). "Cognition and interpreting aptitude." In C. D. Mellinger (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of interpreting and cognition. London: Routledge, 189–204.
  • Liu, N. (2023). "Speaking in the first-person singular or plural: A multifactorial, speech corpus-based analysis of institutional interpreters." , 239–273. 
  • Liu, N. (2023). "Register shifts in political conference interpreting: A multi-dimensional analysis." In J. Pan, S. L. Halverson & J. Munday (Eds.), I Leiden: Brill, 74–115.

Education

  • PhD, University of Hong Kong
  • Master of Translation and Interpretation in English Interpretation, Beijing Foreign Studies University
  • BA, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Research Interests

  • Interpreting studies
  • Translation studies
  • Computational linguistics
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Cognitive linguistics

Teaching Interests

  • Working with Language Data (TRIP/LING)
  • Introduction to Computer-Assisted Translation (TRIP)
  • Scholarly Methods in Translation Studies (TRIP)
  • Teaching Computers Asian Languages (AAAS/TRIP/LING)

Awards

  • European Union Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Fellowship (grant agreement ID: 101108651)
  • General Research Fund 2023/24 of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (project No. 12612823; co-Investigator)

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Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae