Current postgraduate students

Find out about current postgraduate students' research at the School of Languages and Cultures.

Ashleigh McFall

Ashleigh McFall is researching what it means to be fa‘afafine from the perspectives of those who identify this way.
Chao (George) Guan

Chao's research explores the translation of indigenous/ethnic minority languages and cultural products from Māori and Evenki perspectives.
Chun Cheng

Chun Cheng is exploring Shen Congwen’s depictions of religious beliefs and rituals in West Hunan within the broader historical context of the May 4th Movement.
Echo Gao

Echo explores ethical issues in AI-assisted translation under NZSTI Codes, assessing their adequacy for the shift to Intelligence Augmentation and updates.
Ella Major

Ella is researching the way color acts as a language in fine art, and thus how art acts as a form of translation and intercultural communication.
Emma Johnson

Emma explores the diffusion of Francophone reading materials and their ties to knowledge and power, both in the historic moment and in the contemporary archive.
Felicity Bishton

Felicity Bishton is researching the experiential and pedagogical dimensions of videogame translation as multimodal intercultural communication.
Francesca Calligaro

Francesca is exploring Patricia Grace’s linguistic hybridity, focusing on ethical translation, orality, and decolonial exchange between Aotearoa and Italy.
Isaac Bennett-Smith

Isaac is exploring modern stories which have been written in (or translated into) ancient languages, with a focus on ancient Greek.
Jason Featherstone-Wright

Jason is investigating the boundary between adaptation and translation through the example of later re-workings of Plautus’ Amphitruo.
Luoqi Yang

Luoqi Yang is researching 20th-century Chinese female poetry translation through the lens of sociosemiotic translation.
Lynne Bulloch

Lynne Bulloch is exploring the use of genres in the fiction of the Italian writer Melania Mazzucco.
Mariama Diallo

Mariama Diallo is exploring the translative oeuvre of the German-language poet Paul Celan and his work in translation.
Sam Reichman

Sam’s research explores the effects of multimodal, multilingual group translation on social cohesion and associations with local identity.
Shiqi Ren

Shiqi is exploring translational and relational strategies to enhance the accessibility and impact of Chinese New Zealand arts for Sinophone communities.
Shuai Song

Shuai Song is researching a comparative study of AI and human translation in literary texts through examining The Analects of Confucius.
Voon Yi Thean

Voon Yi is curating and translating a cross-cultural vocabulary of Sinitic lacunae, inspired by Lin Yutang’s “Critical Vocabulary” (The Importance of Living).
Wing Hang Eric Yip

Eric Yip is researching on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Chinese government in the late nineteenth century.
Yiwen Xu

Yiwen Xu is researching gender, identity, and media practice in contemporary China, particularly focusing on gender antagonism on social media.
Yuki Gabriella Minami

Yuki Gabriella Minami is studying the role of Zainichi and their depiction in images during the Korean War through Japanese and Korean media and literarature.
Yulun (Darren) Zhang

Yulun Zhang is researching the translation of Latin American work “Guerras del Interior” by Joseph Zárate portraying indigeneity for Japanese readers.