Professor of Translation Studies, School of Foreign Languages, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China

Expertise: Translation of diplomatic and political discourse, pragmatics, teaching translation and translation teaching, metaphor studies

Junfeng Zhang received his PhD in translation studies from the City University of Hong Kong and is Professor of Translation Studies and Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). He was a recipient of the Fulbright Graduate Fellowship (2000) and Endeavour Research Fellowship (2009). He has published a monograph (Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence) with Cambridge Scholars Publishing and two textbooks with Chongqing University Press and China Radio and Television Press. His articles have appeared in the Chinese Translator’s Journal, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer and Meta. He is on the editorial board of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts. His main research interests include translation studies, discourse analysis, and metaphor studies. His research projects received grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Education of China, and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.