Wei Teng ORCID iD University of Canterbury, School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 81400 New Zealand
Wei Teng is a researcher and educator in translation & interpreting studies. He is also a practicing translator and interpreter, holding NZSTI Full membership in translation and NAATI accreditation as a Certified Provisional Interpreter. Teng has developed two sets of assessment criteria aimed at the evaluation of Community Translation/Interpreting. In 2021, Teng won a Whitinga Fellowship, funded by Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand, for a project investigating the applicability of his assessment criteria in community settings.
2022 (with I.H.M. Crezee): Translation theories in the context of the Chinese language – How applicable are they to Community Translation? New Voices in Translation Studies, 26, 110–135.
2019: When pragmatic equivalence fails: Assessing a New Zealand English to Chinese health translation from a functional perspective. In C. Ji, M. Taibi, & I. H. M. Crezee (Eds.), Multicultural Health Translation, Interpreting and Communication (pp. 85–122). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Antonio Viselli ORCID iD University of Canterbury, School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 81400 New Zealand
Antonio Viselli is Senior Lecturer Above the Bar in the Department of Global, Cultural and Language Studies at the University of Canterbury (NZ), where he convenes French and Francophone Studies, as well as Translation and Interpreting. He received his doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. His research focuses mainly on intermediality and translingualism in a Romance-language context, with a strong focus on French Symbolism, European Modernism, and the Francophone Pacific.
Important publications:
2021 (with A. Loda): Translingualism and Poetry. In S. Kellman, & N. Lvovich (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism, (pp. 16-29). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429298745
2019: “Primitive Realities” and the “Meta-Translatability of Language” in the Poetry of Alexandre Amprimoz. Australian Journal of French Studies, 56(2), 184-200.