Yang Anwen is a Professor and Senior Translator at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), where he currently serves as Deputy Director of the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, overseeing Chinese-foreign cooperative education programs. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature and supervises doctoral candidates in Medio-Translatology, as well as master's students in Translation Studies, Applied Linguistics, and the Master of Translation and Interpreting (MTI) program.
Professor Yang has served as the course director for two National First-Class Courses (2018, 2020) and chief editor for National "12th Five-Year Plan" textbooks (2012). Recognized as a Distinguished Teacher of SWJTU since 2014, he was also a visiting scholar at SOAS University of London (2014–2015). He previously served as Assistant Dean (2011–2016) and Associate Dean (2016–2024) of the School of Foreign Languages, overseeing undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
His research focuses on Translation Studies, Medio-Translatology, and foreign language pedagogy. He has led or participated in over 20 national and provincial-level projects, as well as more than 20 university-level projects. Currently, he leads a National Social Science Fund project (2023) on the overseas translation and reception of Bai Hua's poetry. He has authored or co-authored 38 English textbooks, published nearly 20 articles in CSSCI and Peking University Core journals, and published seven monographs and translated works.
Professor Yang serves as a board member of the Overseas Sinology Research Society of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association, an executive board member of the Sichuan Translators Association, and an expert member of the Translators Association of China. Furthermore, he serves as an expert evaluator for the Ministry of Education (MOE) in areas including undergraduate education, graduate thesis reviews, and Chinese-foreign cooperative education programs. He is also a member of the leading group for the CET-4/6 examination grading in Sichuan Province under the MOE, and an expert for Chinese-foreign cooperative education in the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle.
His contributions to teaching and scholarship have been recognized with numerous honors, including the SWJTU Tang Lixin Outstanding Teacher Award (2016), the SWJTU Si Guo Award (2023), and the SWJTU Advanced Individual in Fostering Virtue through Education—Outstanding Teaching Award (2021). He was named a Sichuan Provincial Overseas High-Level Returnee Talent in 2017 and a Top Ten Outstanding Communist Party Member at SWJTU (2017–2019). His academic and pedagogical awards include two first prizes (2004, 2018) and two second prizes (2018, 2022) of the Sichuan Provincial Teaching Achievement Award, a third prize of the Sichuan Provincial Outstanding Achievement Award in Social Sciences (2021), as well as one grand prize, nine first prizes, six second prizes, and two third prizes of the SWJTU Teaching Achievement Award, alongside four SWJTU Outstanding Textbook Awards.
As a core compiler, he published the Innovative College English series (14 volumes in total), which was recognized as a National "12th Five-Year Plan" Undergraduate Textbook; he served as chief editor for two volumes, deputy chief editor for five, and contributor for seven. His English for Specific Purposes (ESP) textbook, Workplace English (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press), has been reprinted 26 times and sold nearly 140,000 copies to over 200 universities nationwide since 2016. In 2025, it was designated as a Sichuan Provincial "14th Five-Year Plan" Undergraduate Textbook.
The accompanying Workplace English MOOC, directed by Professor Yang, has run for over 30 rounds on platforms such as UMOOCs and iCourse, attracting nearly 160,000 students from more than 600 universities. It was designated a National Excellent Online Open Course in 2018 and a National First-Class Course in 2020. Based on this MOOC, his online-offline blended course was recognized as a Sichuan Provincial First-Class Blended Course in 2021.
He currently teaches Medio-Translatology and History of Translation at the graduate level, and Workplace English and Freshman Seminar for Foreign Language Majors at the undergraduate level.
