SONG Zhiping

SONG Zhiping

Job title:Professor
Field of study:Translation pedagogy and eco-translatology

Posts Held:

       Director of the MA program in ForeignLinguistics and Applied Linguistics, supervisor for MA students, standing member ofthe International Association for Eco-translatology Research, associateeditor-in-chief of the Journal ofEco-translatology, and director of SMU Research Institute of TranslationStudies.

Education:

Ph.D. in EnglishLinguistics and Literature of Northeast Normal University (2007).

Research Interests: 

Translationpedagogy and eco-translatology.

Publications:

More than 40 papers published in noted academic journals such as China Translators’ Journal as well as 7monographs and translation works.

Research Projects:

4 provincial orministerial research projects.

Awards:

       Twicethird-class prizes at the Han Suyin National Translation Contest (1998 and2000), and one first-class prize for academic monographs by Northeast NormalUniversity (2009).

Academic Activities: 

Visiting researcher at the University of Warwick inBritain and the University of Pittsburgh in USA , as well as keynote speakers at the Cross-StraitSymposium on Translation and Cross-cultural Communication at Macao PolytechnicInstitute in 2007, the Symposium on Translation and Cross-culturalCommunication at Fu Jen Catholic University of Taiwan in 2009, the High-levelForum on Translation Studies at Suzhou University in 2009andthe 3rd International Symposium on Eco- Translatology at SouthwestUniversity.