Associate Professor, Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

Expertise: Television news translation and interpreting

Claire Tsai is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan. She received her MA in Translation and Interpretation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey in the United States and her PhD in Translation Studies at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. She had worked in the print and broadcast media field as a reporter and news translator in Taiwan and the US for six years before entering academia. Her doctoral research concerned television news translation and how the representation of international news shapes the nature of intercultural communication. She is also winner of the first Snell Fellowship in Translation Studies, supported by Professor Mary Snell-Hornby. She has published articles on translation and journalism in various journals, including Meta, Perspectives and Languages and Intercultural Communication. Her research interests centre on TV news translation, journalism studies, interpreting and subtitling. Selected publications include ‘Reframing Humor in TV News Translation’ (Perspectives 2015), ‘Television News Translation in the Era of Market-driven Journalism’ (Meta 2012) and ‘News Translator as Reporter’ (in Political Discourse, Media and Translation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010).