Dr Gritiya Rattanakantadilok
Assistant Professor of Translation Studies
PhD Translation Studies (2016, University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
MA Translation and Interpretation (2009, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
BA Political Science (2005, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Specializations: postcolonial and feminist translation, diaspora language and culture in translation
Email: gritiya.r@psu.ac.th
Phone: +66 74 286679
Profile
Dr. Gritiya Rattanakantadilok was awarded a fully-funded scholarship by the Thai government to pursue a PhD at the University of Leeds, UK. A part of her PhD thesis, titled ‘Translating The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen: Representations of Culture, Gender, and Buddhism,’ will be published in National Epics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Her co-written book chapter, ‘Sinophone Thainess: The Problematic Landscape of Creolization in the Thai-Chinese Translation Zone,’ appears in the volume Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia (published by Routledge in 2023), representing one of the emerging voices of translation scholars in Southeast Asia. In 2019, she received the Research Grant for New Scholars from the Thailand Research Fund for her project ‘Transitioning from an Authoritarian to a Democratic Regime: Thai Translations of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.’ Her most recent publication, ‘Animal Farm Afterlife: Epitextual Values,’ published in the Qualitative Research Journal, examines epitext in digital spaces where political power struggles unfold, and news items execute a multitude of paratextual roles.
Teaching and Research Supervision
Courses
- Translation and Intercultural Communication
Selected Publications
Monographs
Rattanakantadilok, G. (2025). Translating Soft Power: Translating Culturally Specific Items. [แปลซอฟต์พาวเวอร์: แปลคำที่มีความจำเพาะทางวัฒนธรรม]. Chulalongkorn University Press.
Journal Articles
Rattanakantadilok, G. (2026). Neural machine translations of Thai culturally specific items into English: Audiovisual text experimented. rEFLections, 33(2), 909–931.
Phanthaphoommee, N. & Rattanakantadilok, G. (2026). Non-normative sexuality and genders confronted: A study of translators-in-training’s intercultural competence through English-Thai translation of LGBTQ+ texts. 3L: Language Linguistics Literature 32(1), 260-277.
Chaimongkol, T., & Rattanakantadilok, G. (2026). Female representation in the Thai boys’ love industry: The intersection of privilege and oppression. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 10(1), Article 31.
Rattanakantadilok, G. (2024). Animal Farm afterlife: epitextual values. Qualitative Research Journal, 24(2), 133-145.
Rattanakantadilok, G. (2022). Looking at the world through ‘Thai-tinted’ glasses: The Sino-Thai and Malay Muslim identities. Journal of Language and Culture, 41(2), 90-113.
Chaisiri, S,. Nukaew, O., & Rattanakantadilok G. (2022). Translating Thai metaphors in Tootsies & The Fake: Netflix’s and KissAsian’s subtitles. Journal of Language and Culture, 41(1), 52-75.
Rattanakantadilok, G. (2017). Towards the practice of feminist translation in Thailand. MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities, 23(1), 45-60.
Book Chapters
Tungkeunkunt, K., & Rattanakantadilok, G. (2026). Reading Sinophone Thai literature: Emergence, submergence and transmergence. In L. Suryadinata (Ed.), China’s Culture and Its Transformation in Southeast Asia (pp. 226–238). ISEAS Publishing.
Rattanakantadilok, G., & Tungkeunkunt, K. (2023). Sinophone Thainess: The problematic landscape of creolization in the Thai-Chinese translation zone. In P. Chittiphalangsri, & R. Vicente (Eds.), Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos (pp. 122-141). Routledge.
