Fellow in Focus: Professor Bassey Edem Antia

Recorded February 27, 2024. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Professor Bassey Edem Antia (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) in conversation with Professor Lorna Carson (School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, TCD). Bassey Edem Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. An alumnus of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he holds a PhD from the University of Bielefeld (Germany). His teaching, research and publications in Applied Linguistics span across a number of areas, including translation pedagogy, terminology, public health, and educational language policy and multilingualism. In a current project, he is interested in using Applied Linguistics approaches to understand how school textbooks were pressed into the service of the imperial curriculum and Apartheid ideology in Apartheid South Africa, and how this knowledge might inform our understanding of what it means at a textual level to colonise and to decolonise the curriculum. He is a B1 rated researcher of the National Research Foundation, South Africa. Recognition for his scholarship and teaching includes: award for excellence in teaching and learning of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa/Centre on Higher Education (2017); institutional teaching excellence award of the University of the Western Cape (2017); teaching excellence award of the Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape (2017); the Eugen Wüster prize for outstanding achievement in research and teaching in terminology and multilingualism (2016); prize for excellent doctoral dissertation of the University Society of Westphalia and Lippe (Germany, 1999), international INFOTERM award for outstanding achievement in applied research and development in the field of terminology (awarded for excellent doctoral dissertation) – co-sponsored by the European Commission (within the framework of its programme on Multilingual Information Society) and the European Association for Terminology. 1999). He has taught and/or researched in various capacities at a number of universities, including University of Maiduguri (Nigeria), Universität Bielefeld (Germany), University of Education Heidelberg (Germany), Université de Montréal (Canada), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), University of Surrey, Guildford (UK), and Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa). He has attracted funding internationally, from Germany, USA, Belgium, South Africa, and the EU. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/