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Course Director

HU Kaibao
male, Ph. D. of English Language and Literature
Professor of translation studies
Vice dean of the School of Foreign languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, executive director of the Center for Translation Studies and Lexicography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Educational Background:

September, 1989 – March, 1991, postgraduate of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Harbin Institute of Technology

September, 2001 –June, 2004, Ph. D. student of English Language and Literature, Nanjing University

May, 2003—April, 2004, visiting scholar at the Department of English and the Center for Translation and Intercultural Studies, the University of Manchester, UK

Work experience:

March, 1991—November, 1997,  lecturer and associate professor, Hefei University of Technology

November, 1997—till now, associate professor and full professor, supervisor of Ph.D. students, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research interests:

Translation studies
Corpus-based translation studies
Language contact

Academic achievements in the past five years:
   16 papers published in important journals in China
   3 research projects completed
   2 authored books: 
The Historical Text of English-Chinese Dictionaries and the Evolution of the Chinese Language, 2005, Shanghai Yiwen Press
Introducing Corpus Translation Studies, 2010, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press

Ongoing research projects:

A Corpus-based Study of the Chinese Translations of Shakespeare’s Plays
A Theoretical Investigation of Corpus Translation Studies