Douglas Robinson

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Douglas Robinson (born September 30, 1954 in Lafayette, Indiana ) is an American linguist , author and translator. In his monographs he deals with interpersonal communication and social interaction and in particular with their expression in literature, rhetoric and translation. Robinson has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University since 2012 .

Life

Douglas Robinson was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and grew up in Los Angeles and Seattle . In 1971 he went to Finland for an exchange year . On his return he worked as a student at Linfield College and Evergreen State College . He returned to Finland and got three degrees in English. He also taught full-time in the English department at Jyväskylä University . In 1981 he went back to the USA to write his doctoral thesis at the University of Washington . After receiving his PhD in 1983 , he accepted a position as a lecturer in English Language and Literature at Tampere University in Finland. From 1987 he taught translation theory and practice for English- Finnish at the same university. From 1989 to 2010 he worked as a professor of English at the University of Mississippi . From 2010 to 2012 he was the head of the English department at Lingnan University. Robinson has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University since 2012.

Services

Douglas Robinson published numerous monographs dealing with his research in various disciplines . These include literary studies , cultural studies , linguistics , translation studies and philosophy of mind . He has also published several translations from Finnish into English and several textbooks . Two of these textbooks are specifically aimed at Finnish students of English. Further textbooks are aimed at all students of translation studies, linguistic pragmatics and writing . He also worked with Ikka Rekiaro on an English-Finnish dictionary with 26,000 entries for each language direction.

Publications (selection)

  • The translator's turn. Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr, Baltimore 1991, ISBN 9780801840470 .
  • Translation and taboo. Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb 1996, ISBN 978-0875805719 .
  • What is translation? Centrifugal theories, critical interventions. Kent State University Press, Kent 1997, ISBN 978-0873385732 .
  • Becoming a translator. An introduction to the theory and practice of translation. Routledge, London 1997, ISBN 978-0-415-14860-3 .
  • Translation and empire. Postcolonial theories explained. St. Jerome, Manchester 1997, ISBN 978-1900650083 .
  • Who translates? Translator subjectivities beyond reason. SUNY Press, Albany 2001, ISBN 978-0791448649 .
  • Performative linguistics. Speaking and translating as doing things with words. Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 978-0415300360 .
  • Translation and the problem of sway. John Benjamin, Amsterdam and Philadelphia 2011, ISBN 978-9027224408 .
  • Displacement and the somatics of postcolonial culture. Ohio State University Press, Columbus 2013, ISBN 978-0814293416 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Douglas Robinson at the HBKU (accessed on September 23, 2013)
  2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Douglas Robinson (accessed on 23 September 2013; PDF; 193 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lafayette (Indiana)