Xinyao Zhang

About

ZHANG Xinyao has recently passed her PhD viva and is now an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. She completed her PhD in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Dr Olga Castro and Dr Qian Liu. Her PhD research was funded by the AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. She previously earned an MSc in Translation Studies from the University of Edinburgh.

Research

Her PhD project studies Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own in China via translation and online distribution. Specifically, it investigates how Chinese translations, together with the feminist engagement with these translations on social media platforms, have reframed A Room of One’s Own and contributed to the articulation and ongoing discussion of local feminist agendas.

Research Interests

• Gender and translation
• Fan/amateur translation
• Audiovisual translation
• Translation and music

Publications

• Wang, Hanyu. and Zhang, Xinyao. From Archives to Audiences: Transnational Fan Dialogues and Reception of Gender and Sexual Dynamics in Chinese ABO Literature, in Translating Chinese Internet Literature: Global Adaptation and Circulation, ed. by W. Zhang and S. He. Routledge. To be out in 2026.

Conferences

Presenter, 6th European Colloquium on Gender and Translation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 8-10 July 2025

Presenter, 11th European Society for Translation Studies Congress, University of Leeds, UK, 30 June-3 July 2025

Presenter, International Conference International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, Heriot-Watt University, UK, 23 - 24 Nov 2023

Presenter, International Conference Transnational Feminism: Explorations, Communications, Challenges and Horizons, Badr University, Egypt, 28-29 Oct 2023

Guest speaker (by invitation), Feminisms Reading Group, University College London, 09 May 2023

Teaching

LN902 Translation Portfolio, Teaching Assistant, 2025/2026

LN904 MA Dissertation Seminar, Teaching Assistant, 2023/2024; 2024/2025

LN912 Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling and Global Media, Teaching Assistant, 2023/24

LN313 Undergraduate Translation Project, Teaching Assistant in Audiovisual Translation, 2023/24

LN906 Research Skills in Modern Languages, Teaching Assistant in Academic Writing, 2022/23; 2024/2025

Work Placement

Internship at ZOO Digital Group plc, 2023/24

Research Activities

Panel convener of the IPCITI Panel 3A: Translation and Performance

Panel convener of the EST Panel 14 on Diversifying Discussions: The Feminist and Queer Production, Translation and Reception of Media in a Global Context

Organiser of a TTS reading group session on the reading of Guo, Ting, and Jonathan Evans. "Translational and transnational queer fandom in China: the fansubbing of Carol." Feminist media studies 20.4 (2020): 515-529.

International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture, Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, 26 June – 8 July 2023

Warwick School of Feminist Translation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of Warwick, 11-12 May 2023

Assistant at New Trends in Translation Studies: Perspectives from China, UK and US, University of Warwick, 26 Nov 2021

Scholarships and Awards

AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Studentship Award, University of Warwick, 2022-2025

China National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, Oct 2015

Education Background

MSc in Translation Studies at The University of Edinburgh

BA in Translation for Science and Technology at Guangxi University of Science and Technology

Professional Associations

Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI)

Globalization and Localization Association (GALA)