Yangyang Long

Dr Yangyang Long is Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies. Her works have been published on journals such as The Translator, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, TranscULturAL, and Coup De Théâtre. She is the author of The Works of Lin Yutang: Translation and Recognition (Routledge, 2023). Her research centres around translation, literary studies and cultural studies. As such it is underpinned by the principles of conceptualisation and practices of what is broadly defined as translation, where she explores the locations, zones and sites across, between and within which translation emerges. In this sense, translation is understood to have played a crucial role in the representation, interpretation and transformation of cultures, languages, values, histories, geographies and indeed narratives. By consequence, she has been engaging with the discovery of the extent to which connectedness with the concepts, theories and practices of translation can foster novel ways of thinking about research across disciplinary boundaries in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr Long has been the Deputy Head of the Department since 2025, and the Assessment Lead of the Department since 2023. 

Cultural Translation

Literary Translation

Theatre Translation

Chinese Women Writers and Translators in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Ethics in Discovering the Other in East-West Cultural Encounters

Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Film and Theatre in the Anglophone World

Cultural Studies

Literary Studies

World/Comparative Literature

Associate Professor - 2026-present

Deputy Head of the Department, 2025-present

Assessment Lead (Examinations Officer), 2023-present

Assistant Professor - 2020-2025

Postgraduate teaching assistant - Queens University Belfast, 2015-2019

2023, Departmental research seminar series, Translating for Performance: Royal Shakespeare Company’s Production of 窦娥冤 (The Injustice to Dou E) as Snow in Midsummer, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Department of Translation and Interpreting, China

2021, invited public lecture, Whose Play Is It? Translating and Performing Chinese Drama for the Global Stage (谁的剧？中国戏剧的国际传播：翻译与表演), Queens Language Centres Chinese Culture Forum (https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/mandarinchinese/2021/07/01/ccf11-july-talk/), Queens University Belfast, UK

2019, invited academic lecture, Rethinking WWII through the Lens of Translation: Looking Backward to See Ahead and What We Can Learn from Lin Yutang?, Queen’s Translation and Interpreting Research Collective Seminar (https://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/cti/seminarseries/), Queen’s University Belfast, UK

TRI307 Translating China I: Culture and History (Module Leader)

TRI303 Conference Interpreting (Module Leader)

TRI301 Translation and Interpreting Final Year Project 

TRI209 Literary Translation (Module Leader)

TRI207 Translation and Culture (Module Leader)

TRI202 Interpreting (Module Leader)

TRI102 Introduction to Translation and Interpreting

TRI002 Essentials of Translation and Interpreting

HSS001 Explore Humanities and Social Sciences -- Translation and Interpreting

HSS003 HSS Futures: Humanities and Social Sciences in the Digital Age 

LIF001 Research-led & Project-based Learning

2025, Outstanding Individual in Education and Teaching in Suzhou for the Year of 2024 (4 awardees at XJTLU)

2024, XJTLU School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic Excellence Award in Teaching (1 awardee in School)

2022, XJTLU nominee to China Ministry of Education (MoE): The 9th Outstanding Scientific Research Award of Higher Education Institutions, Humanities and Social Sciences (2 nominees)

2021 Jiangsu Province Talent Programme Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctor

2018, Great Britain-China Educational Trust Chinese Students Award, £1000 for supporting the writing-up year of PhD

2017, Queen’s University Travel Funding Award, £500 for supporting the Asian Translation Traditions Conference

2016, Queen’s University Santander Mobility Scholarship, £5000 for research trip to New York University, University of Massachusetts, University of California, Los Angeles

2015, Queen’s University Santander Mobility Scholarship, £1000 for research trip to University of Heidelberg

2014-2017, Queen’s University Belfast/China Scholarship Council PhD Award