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/