Professor Chantal Wright

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Co-Head Institute of Translation and Interpreting
• Professor of Creativity and the Language Industry

Focus

Creativity and translation, Translation Studies, Stylistics, Diversity and the publishing industry, Multilingualism and exophony, Literary translation

Teaching

• BA: Applied Linguistics for the Language Professions
• MA: Theory and Practice of Translation

Experience

• Professor of Creativity and the Language Industry
  ZHAW
  02 / 2024 - today
• Co-Head of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting
  ZHAW
  10 / 2022 - today
• 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

Education and Continuing education

Education

• 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

Network

Membership of networks

• ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1011-3717
• European Society for Translation Studies - EST
• Translators Association (GB)

Awards

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

Social media

LInkedIn

Media presence

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

Publications

• Wright, Chantal,

  2023.

  Crossing the borders of social class : social mobility as translational experience.

  The Translator.

  29(4), pp. 480-493.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2023.2275808

• Batchelor, Kathryn; Wright, Chantal,

  2023.

  Translation, trouvailles.

  The Translator.

  29(4), pp. 401-407.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2023.2276493

• Wright, Chantal; Batchelor, Kathryn, eds.,

  2023.

  Translation, trouvailles.

  Taylor & Francis.

  The Translator ; 29(4).

  Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrn20/29/4

Publications before appointment at the 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.

Other publications

• 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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