Dirk Delabastita

Dirk Delabastita (born March 14, 1960 in Leuven , Belgium ) is a Belgian literary and translation scholar . He is the director of the English Institute at the University of Namur , where he also teaches as a professor.

biography

Dirk Delabastita was born on March 14, 1960 in Leuven, Belgium. He lives with his wife Lieve Waer and their three sons Simon, Arnout and Vincent in Blanden, Belgium.

After graduating from Sint-Pieterscollege in 1978, Delabastita studied German philology and teaching English and Dutch at the KU Leuven . He then specialized in literature and literary theory from 1982 to 1983 at the University of Hull (England) . From 1983 to 1988 he was a young researcher at the Institute for Literary Studies at the KU Löwen, where he obtained his doctorate in German philology in 1990. After two years as an assistant at the English Institute of the University of Namur (UNamur), Delabastita taught as an adjunct professor at UNamur in 1991, before receiving the full professorship for English literature and literary theory in 2004. He has been the head of the institute since 2003. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at the Université catholique de Louvain .

Research areas

Dirk Delabastita's main interest is in literary studies and its links with linguistics and translation studies. In addition, he is involved in Shakespeare research and pays special attention to the translation of Shakespeare works and their international reception. In his dissertation, published in 1993, he examined the puns in Shakespeare's Hamlet and the translation problems associated with them . Ambiguity and verbal humor are also among his subjects of investigation. As a member of Pluri-LL, a research group at UNamur, he deals with multilingualism and its effects on intergroup relationships, as well as translation as a space for interaction between languages ​​and cultures. He also researches narrative theory and works as a lexicologist - most recently as co-editor of the Algemeen Letterkundig Lexicon , an online lexicon for technical terms in literature and literary studies.

Other functions and memberships (selection)

• Member (in various positions) of the Center for Translation Studies (CETRA) at the KU Leuven
• Member of the Publications Committee of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)
• Organizer of the “Traductologie” module at the École Doctorale Langues et Lettres
• external consultant for Translation Research Training (TIME)

Furthermore, Dirk Delabastita is a member of the following organizations:

• Association Belge de Litterature générale et comparée
• Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE)
• European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
• European Society for Translation Studies (EST)
• International Comparative Literature Association (AILC)
• Shakespeare-Genootschap Nederland en Vlaanderen
• European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA)

Publications (selection)

• There's a double tongue. An investigation into the translation of Shakespeare's wordplay, with special reference to 'Hamlet'. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi 1993.
• European Shakespeare. Translating Shakespeare in the Romantic Age. With Lieven D'hulst (ed.). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamin 1993.
• Wordplay and Translation. Special edition of The Translator. Studies in Intercultural Communication, 2: 2. (Ed.) Manchester: St Jerome Publishing 1996.
• Traductio. Essays on Punning and Translation. (Ed.) Manchester: St Jerome / Namur: Presses Universitaires de Namur 1997.
• Dictionnaire des Termes littéraires. With Hendrik van Gorp, Lieven D'hulst, Rita Ghesquiere, Rainier Grutman and Georges Legros. Paris: Honoré Champion 2001.
• Fictionalizing Translation and Multilingualism. Special edition of Linguistica Antverpiensia NS 4. With Rainier Grutman (Ed.). Antwerp: Hogeschool Antwerp, HIVT, 2005.
• Lexicon van Literaire Terms. With Hendrik van Gorp and Rita Ghesquiere (eds.). Groningen-Houten: Wolters-Noordhoff / Mechelen: Wolters Plantyn 2007.
• Shakespeare and European Politics. With Jo De Vos and Paul Franssen (eds.). Newark: University of Delaware Press 2008.
• Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries . With Ton Hoenselaars (ed.). Amsterdam and Phildelphia: John Benjamin 2013, 2015.

Web links

• Homepage of Dirk Delabastita with detailed information on publications, memberships and functions
• Algemeen Letterkundig Lexicon
• Homepage of IATIS
• EST homepage
• UCL homepage
• Homepage of the KU Löwen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ uclouvain.be: Université catholique de Louvain - staff ( memento of the original dated December 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. French, accessed August 15, 2013. 
2. ↑ directory.unamur.be: Pluri-LL French, accessed on August 15, 2013.
3. ↑ kuleuven.be: CETRA - Members English, accessed August 15, 2013.
4. ↑ iatis.org: IATIS Publications Committee - Members  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. English, accessed August 15, 2013.  
5. ↑ langues-et-lettres.frs-fnrs.be: Traductologie - Responsible ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. French, accessed August 15, 2013. 
6. ↑ eu-researchprojects.eu: TIME - Supervisor and Researcher ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. English, accessed August 15, 2013.