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Alisa Tian is an Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, specializing in translation and interpreting. She holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Translation Pedagogy from UNSW and a Master of Translation and Interpreting from Western Sydney University. Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Advanced Chinese Studies from UNSW. Alisa is an NAATI Certified Professional Interpreter and Translator (Chinese-English) with extensive practical experience in translation and interpreting contexts, including legal interpreting and subtitling. She has worked with high-profile trials and provided expert opinions in court and for private law firms. Alisa has taught various courses in translation and interpreting at UNSW since 2010, receiving consistently positive feedback from students and achieving high levels of student satisfaction. In 2021, she was awarded the inaugural Casual Staff Teaching Award from the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW. Currently, she is a PhD candidate researching translation pedagogy under the supervision of Associate Professor Mira Kim, with research interests focusing on translation pedagogy and systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Her MPhil thesis received a prestigious award, and her ongoing PhD project aims to bridge the gap between translation theory and practice in the classroom.
University of New South Wales • Sydney, Australia
Teaching various courses involving translation and interpreting, with a focus on achieving high student satisfaction rates.
Includes Business Intelligence, Enterprise Systems, and Cybersecurity Management streams.