Personal Statement
Ting Guo received her PhD in Translation Studies from Aston University (Birmingham) in 2009. Before she joined University of Liverpool, Ting worked at University of Exeter for 10 years and University of Edinburgh for one year. She is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in MA Translation and Chinese program at the Department of Languages, Cultures and Films at Liverpool.

She specialises in translation/interpreting history, translation of gender and sexuality, translation and media. From 2019, she is the Principle Investigator of AHRC ERC research project "Translating for Changes: Anglophone Queer Cinema and Chinese LGBT+ Movement". This ongoing project explores the translation and use of Anglophone (North American, British, Australasian) queer cinema as a means of developing LGBT+ culture and rights in China". Despite the interruption of the pandemic, the project has led to extensive impact internationally through a series of public-facing engagement events (e.g. FF4Freedom Screening jointly with British Council (Beijing) (2019), Seminar at Shanghai Pride Film Festival (2019) and Guangzhou LGBT+ Films Festival (2019), an international conference on "Worldmaking around the world: Queer Media and Culture in Circulation" in 2021 and an exhibition on the travels of cinema around the world, "Queer Cinema in Motion", in collaboration with the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at Exeter).

Building on her existing research on the topics of translation and gender/sexuality, fan translation and popular culture, Ting is also working on projects including 1) “Dancing in Her Seven Veils: Revisiting the Salomé Craze in 1930's Shanghai”, funded by AHRC international placement scheme, examines the production and reception of the first Chinese Salomé play and explores how the image of Salomé was transformed into a cosmopolitan cultural product attractive to the middleclass audiences in Shanghai; 2) "Fan translation, popular culture and digital media in China", a project explores Chinese fans' translation practice and their role in shaping Chinese cultural landscape through case studies such as the translation activities by Chinese Doctor Who fans.

Research Overview
My main research interest is the pivotal role of translation in the reproduction and dissemination of knowledge as well as in social and political changes. The areas that I am interested include translation/interpreting history, translation of gender and sexuality, fan translation and popular culture.

My monograph, TG's monographSurviving Violent Conflict: Chinese Interpreters in the Second-Sino Japanese War (1931-45) (2016) investigates how Chinese interpreters were recruited and deployed by the Chinese nationalist government, the Chinese Communist Party and the Japanese forces during the Second-Sino Japanese War. It questions the institutionalized image of interpreter and interpreter training and highlights the multiple positioning of interpreters in reality and their border-crossing strategies.

My AHRC-funded project “Dancing in Her Seven Veils: Revisiting the Salomé Craze in 1930's Shanghai” examines the production and reception of the first Chinese Salomé play and explores how the image of Salomé was transformed into a cosmopolitan cultural product attractive to the middleclass audiences in Shanghai.

The project that I am currently working on "Translating for Changes: Anglophone Queer Cinema and Chinese LGBT+ Movement", also funded by AHRC explores the translation and use of Anglophone (North American, British, Australasian) queer cinema as a means of developing LGBT+ culture and rights in China. Rather than focusing on the media representation of Chinese LGBT+ communities, this project investigates how the unofficial translation and dissemination of Anglophone queer films participate in and shape the development of the LGBT+ rights movement and culture in China. Collaborating with Aibai, a non-profit Chinese organization aiming at promoting equal rights for the LGBT+ community, QAFONE and Jihua Network, two of the most influential Chinese LGBT+ subtitling groups, this project examines the translation and discussion of Anglophone LGBT+ films in China and the screening of these translated films in important Chinese queer film events (e.g. Shanghai Pride film festival, Shanghai Queer Festival, Beijing Queer Film Festival, China Queer Independent Film Tour) as well as social events organized by Chinese LGBT+ organizations. It investigates the key players involved in the translation and dissemination of Anglophone queer films and broaden existing research on transnational connections between Anglophone and Chinese LGBT+ movements.