School of Languages and Cultures

Dr William Gatherer

MATI (Chinese) Program Convenor
Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
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Researcher biography

Will is a lecturer in Chinese translation within the University of Queensland’s Master of Arts in Chinese Translation and Interpreting programme and a practicing NAATI accredited professional translator. Having completed his BA (Hons) from the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) in London, Will worked in Beijing at the British Embassy and then subsequently completed his PhD at the University of Queensland. In addition to Will’s teaching and research roles at UQ he is also a practicing commercial translator currently specialising in the translation of Chinese medical research into English.

Featured projects Duration
BORDERS
 2023

Publications

Book (1)
Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (5)
Conference Papers (6)
Thesis (1)

Book

Gatherer, Will (2021). Ma Yuan : The Chinese Avant-Garde, Metafiction, and Post-Postmodernism. Lanham, MD United States: Lexington Books.

Book Chapters

Gatherer, Will (2021). Transferring the self-reflexive function: translation of Chinese metafictions. A century of Chinese literature in translation (1919–2019) : English. (pp. 145-158) edited by Leah Gerber and Lintao Qi. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Gatherer, William (2018). 经验、记忆与写作的叙事：马原1987年短篇小说《错误》的叙事学分析. 青年汉学家研修计划论文集(2017北京郑州)(精). (pp. 302-330) 北京: 中国社会科学出版社.

Journal Articles

Yuan, Ma and Gatherer, Will (2020). The Khampa Encampment. Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.
Gatherer, William (2018). Translating Ma Yuan’s metafiction: an analysis of the loss of self-reflexivity in Herbert Batt’s translation of “The spell of the Gangdise Mountains” (“Gangdisi de youhuo” 岡底斯的誘惑). Translation Quarterly (89), 73-99.
Gatherer, William (2016). Death, memory, and narrative: a textual analysis of Ma Yuan's metafictional novella "Old Death". Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews, 38, 129-148.
Gatherer, Will (2016). Fiction re-fabricated: an analysis of the loss of self-reflexivity in Herbert Batt's translation of Ma Yuan's metafiction "A Fiction" ("Xugou"). Translation Quarterly, 81, 1-28.
Gatherer, Will (2013). Ethnicity, language and finding "the other" in Ma Yuan's Fabrication (Xugou). Kaleidoscope, 5 (1), 54-59.

Conference Papers

Gatherer, Will (2023). Anxiety in the anthropocene: Post-postmodernism and eco-consciousness within the contemporary novels of Ma Yuan (马原). British Association of Chinese Studies 2023 Conference, London, United Kingdom, 7-8 September 2023.
Gatherer, Will (2021). “The psychopathologies of Englishness: How J.G Ballard’s 2006 dystopian novel Kingdom Come anticipated Brexit and the rise of English nationalism”. Dark Economies 2021, Falmouth University, United Kingdom, 21-23 July 2021.
Gatherer, Will (2020). “After Post-modernism, after the avant-garde: Locating the Chinese Metamodern within the fiction of Ma Yuan”. Hawai‘i International Conference on Chinese Studies, Honolulu, HI, United States, 5-9 January 2020.
Gatherer, Will (2019). “Escaping China within China: Writing Tibet and China’s non-Han Chinese ethnic minorities in the non-fiction travel writings and metafictions of Ma Yuan (马原)”. Borders and Crossings 2019, Leicester, United Kingdom, 4–6 July 2019.
Gatherer, Will (2019). "Translating and trans-culturing self-reflexivity: An analysis of English translations of Chinese metafiction”. Translating Thought/Translating Literature, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, 31 January - 1 February 2019.
Gatherer, Will (2018). How do you say Covfefe in Chinese? An analysis of Xinhua news agency’s translations of the tweets of Donald Trump. International Seminar on Translation and Interpreting, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 17-19 October 2018.

Thesis

Gatherer, William (2014). Reading Ma Yuan’s metafiction: a narratological analysis of “Xugou” and “Gangdisi de youhuo”. PhD Thesis, School of Language and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.165

Areas of research

Translation and Interpreting