Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Rita Wilson is Professor in Translation Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics and Founding Director of the Monash Intercultural Lab.
Before joining Monash University in 2005, I taught at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and the University of Melbourne.
I have long-standing research interests in women’s writing, translation studies and transcultural narrative practices. My current research sits at the interface of migrant cultural studies, translation and intercultural studies. Focusing on the complexities of cultural contact, I investigate the relationship between language, place, mobility and the construction of cultural identities. My work contributes to a growing strand of research in Translation Studies that explores the connection between translation and migration. The marked visibility of migration phenomena in the contemporary world has led to increased attention to the centrality of language and (self-)translation when discussing topics such as citizenship; social inclusion and exclusion; the representation of individual and collective cultural identities; the dynamic process of settlement. My recent publications relate to various aspects of identity and culture in migratory contexts, including cultural mediation, intercultural competence and transcultural creative practices.
With Loredana Polezzi, I am co-editor of The Translator, a leading international journal in Translation Studies. I am also the Academic Co-Director of the Monash-Warwick Migration, Identity, Translation Research Network and the Migration Diversity Inclusion Graduate Research Industry Partnership (GRIP)
Supervision interests
Since joining Monash, my supervisory expertise and research areas have attracted enquiries from a wide range of potential PhD candidates and, to date, I have successfully supervised 31 postgraduate students to completion across two disciplinary areas: Italian Studies and Translation Studies.
In 2015, I was the winner of Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision, Faculty of Arts.
My current supervision interests include:
- Translation, Migration and Social Inclusion; Self-Translation; Literary Translation; Cultural Identities; Intercultural Studies
- Women's Writing
- Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture
Recently completed PhD theses include
- Exploring the Reception of Transcreation in Game Localisation between English and Chinese: Contingency Plan or Icing on the Cake?
- Translators at a crossroads: Working into and out of the first language
- Afroitalian Hip Hop: Negotiating and building new transcultural Italian belongings
- Re-imagining the Italian South: Subjectivity and Migration in Contemporary Literature and Cinema
- Reading literature of the Vietnamese diaspora in translation: a 'transdiasporic' approach
- The Effects of Translation on Performance: Translating Rhythm and Gesture in Two Plays by David Mence
- A Grammar of God: Translation, Grammar and Memory in the Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala (1610)
- Translation in Japanese museums: a study of multimodal linguistic landscape
- Revelation and Equivalence: A Methodology for the Translation of Sacred-Texts; as applied to the Tiqqunim of the Zohar
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Cultural Identity
- Migration
- Intercultural Understanding
- Transcultural studies
- Self-Translation
- Transnational Literature
- Women's Writing
- Translation Studies
- Social Inclusion
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 24 Finished
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Action Grants: Deployment of Grant clinics and Grantee Communities at Scale for Fairer Victoria (Vic Govt.)
Varghese, D., Olivier, P., Wilson, R. & Bartindale, T.
27/06/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Consultancy
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Capacity building CALD organisations in Victoria for media-driven outreach through Grant Clinics and Media Training
Varghese, D., Olivier, P., Bartindale, T., Wilson, R. & Kirkham, R.
14/12/21 → 30/11/22
Project: Consultancy
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Monash Intercultural Lab-Scanlon Foundation Research Institute Summer School
Forgasz, R., Wilson, R., Normand-Marconnet, N., Van der Kamp, M., Garcia Ochoa, G., Manns, H., Moreira dos Anjos Santos, L., Volcic, Z. & Wickes, R.
1/01/21 → 30/06/23
Project: Other
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VRT: Training interpreters using contextualised, immersive, interactive Virtual Reality technology.
Gerber, L., Wilson, R., Shepherd, I., McIntosh, P. & Avella Archila, A.
2/09/19 → 30/09/20
Project: Research
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Sites of translation in Melbourne
Wilson, R., 2021, The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City. Lee, T. K. (ed.). 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 349-363 15 p. (Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Tourism translation
Sulaiman, M. Z. & Wilson, R., 2021, Handbook of Translation Studies. Gambier, Y. & van Doorslaer, L. (eds.). 1st ed. The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Vol. 5. p. 213-220 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
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#YouthintheCity: Re-imagining a Superdiverse City through the Voices of its Youth
Dutto, M., Ricatti, F. & Wilson, R., 2020, London UK : Digital Modern Languages.Research output: Other contribution › Other
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Introduction: Transcultural Exchanges and Encounters in Italy
Wilson, R. & Maher, B., 2020, In: Modern Italy. 25, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Other
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'Pens that confound the label of citizenship': Self-translations and literary identities
Wilson, R., 2020, In: Modern Italy. 25, 2, p. 213-224 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Faculty of Arts Dean's Award for Research Impact.
Wilson, Rita (Recipient), Orlando, Marc (Recipient) & Hlavac, Jim (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Other distinction
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Faculty of Arts Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision
Wilson, Rita (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Other distinction
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VICTORIA’S MULTICULTURAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE
Wilson, Rita (Recipient) & Tobias, Shani (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminars
Rita Wilson (Invited speaker)
7 May 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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UCL / SOAS Global Translation Lectures
Rita Wilson (Invited speaker)
8 Jun 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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Modern Italy (Journal)
Rita Wilson (Guest editor) & Brigid Maher (Guest editor)
May 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London
Rita Wilson (Advisor)
2020 → …Activity: External Academic Engagement › External research organisation, centre or institute
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Academic Review of Cultures and Languages
Rita Wilson (Reviewer)
16 Oct 2019 → 19 Oct 2019Activity: External Academic Engagement › Peer review panel or committee
Press/Media
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Language has become a tool for social exclusion
Loredana Polezzi, Jo Angouri & Rita Wilson
21/02/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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I giovani italo-australiani ispirano fiducia [Il Globo]
Rita Wilson & Francesco Ricatti
20/12/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Blogs
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Language, citizenship and inclusion: exploding the 'monolingual myth'
Rita Wilson, Jo Angouri & Loredana Polezzi
20/11/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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“Diaspore italiane”: A four-day exploration of Italian identity
12/04/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment