Dr Minlin Yu

  • Lecturer in Translation Studies with Mandarin (Translation studies)

email: Minlin.Yu@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

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Research interests

Fields of interest:

  • Feminist translation and gender studies
  • Gender and translation in modern China
  • Modern Chinese cultural and intellectual history
  • Machine translation and LLM bias
  • Ethics and politics of AI in translation

I obtained my doctoral degree from the University of Glasgow. My PhD project examines the translation/construction of gender roles and identities across a century of Chinese cultural history. Fascinated by questions spanning gender, culture, translation, and technology, I situate my research across these disciplinary and interdisciplinary domains. My current research interests address gender and cultural biases in large language models (LLMs) used as machine translation (MT) systems.

Publications

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2025

Yu, Minlin (2025) The male lens on Jane Eyre: translating/constructing femininity across a century of Chinese cultural history. New Voices in Translation Studies, 30(2), i-iv.

Yu, Minlin and He, Jenny (Eds.) (2025) Special Issue 49: Digital Patronage and the Politics of Translation in Algorithmic Culture. Journal of Specialised Translation. [Edited Journal] (Accepted for Publication)

Yu, Minlin (2025) Dimming the grey: the socio-cultural recasting of ageing women in Chinese translations of Jane Eyre. eSharp, (Accepted for Publication)

Yu, Minlin (2025) Gendered technology in translation and interpreting - centering rights in the development of language technology. Feminist Translation Studies, 1(2), pp. 131-134. (doi: 10.1080/29940443.2025.2492583)[Book Review]

Yu, Minlin (2025) New mind, old body: translating/constructing feminine sense and sexuality in early-twentieth-century China. In: Toto, Piero and Costacurta, Mirco (eds.) Carnal Languages: Interdisciplinary Issues in Sexual Communication. Series: Palgrave studies in language, gender and sexuality. Palgrave Macmillan. (Accepted for Publication)

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Number of items: 5.

Articles

Yu, Minlin (2025) The male lens on Jane Eyre: translating/constructing femininity across a century of Chinese cultural history. New Voices in Translation Studies, 30(2), i-iv.

Yu, Minlin (2025) Dimming the grey: the socio-cultural recasting of ageing women in Chinese translations of Jane Eyre. eSharp, (Accepted for Publication)

Book Sections

Yu, Minlin (2025) New mind, old body: translating/constructing feminine sense and sexuality in early-twentieth-century China. In: Toto, Piero and Costacurta, Mirco (eds.) Carnal Languages: Interdisciplinary Issues in Sexual Communication. Series: Palgrave studies in language, gender and sexuality. Palgrave Macmillan. (Accepted for Publication)

Book Reviews

Yu, Minlin (2025) Gendered technology in translation and interpreting - centering rights in the development of language technology. Feminist Translation Studies, 1(2), pp. 131-134. (doi: 10.1080/29940443.2025.2492583)[Book Review]

Edited Journals

Yu, Minlin and He, Jenny (Eds.) (2025) Special Issue 49: Digital Patronage and the Politics of Translation in Algorithmic Culture. Journal of Specialised Translation. [Edited Journal] (Accepted for Publication)

This list was generated on Sat Dec 27 08:11:16 2025 GMT.

Teaching

Courses I currently teach and have previously taught include:

Teaching

Postgraduate courses:

  • Advanced Translation and Language Study (Course convenor)
  • Translation of Literature and Culture (Course convenor)

Undergraduate course:

  • Intermediate Mandarin Chinese