Michael Cronin

Michael Anthony Cronin (born October 1, 1960 ) is an Irish translation scholar and professor at Dublin City University . He is the editor of the New Perspectives in Translation Studies (Routledge) series.

Career and research focus

Michael Cronin studied French at Trinity College Dublin and later earned a Master of Arts in the same subject from University College Dublin. He wrote his doctoral thesis at Trinity College Dublin on the question of the extent to which bilingualism hinders or promotes creativity in writing. Using the example of Québec , he was able to show that the coexistence of English and French gave the authors resident there additional impulses.

In translation studies, he argued, not least against the background of Irish as a threatened language , for the value of translations as a means of cultural and linguistic respect in intercultural exchange. At the Center for Translation and Textual Studies at Dublin City University he was involved in setting up '' TRASNA '' . The online database, in which a bibliography of international translations of Irish literature is collected, is intended to be used to analyze the global position of Irish literature.

Cronin's other research focus is machine translation . Based on the importance of tools for the development of culture and society, Cronin argues that processes of globalization are driven by translation. In Translation in the Digital Age (Routledge, London 2013), he therefore advocates the development of a controlled language to achieve better results in automatic translation processes.

Functions and memberships

• Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2006)
• Officier des Ordre des Palmes Académiques
• Adviser to the Arts Council of Ireland on issues relating to the Irish language (2009-2011)
• Member of the Academia Europaea (2015)

Publications

• Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages ​​and Identity . Cork University Press, Cork 1996 ISBN 1-85918-019-1
• Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation . Cork University Press, Cork 2000 ISBN 1-85918-183-X
• Translation and Globalization . Routledge, London 2003 ISBN 0-415-27065-0
• Time Tracks: Scenes from the Irish Everyday . New Island, Dublin 2003 ISBN 1-904301-41-X
• Irish in the New Century / An Ghaeilge san Aois Nua . Cois Life, Dublin 2005 ISBN 1-901176-52-5
• Translation and Identity . Routledge, London 2006 ISBN 0-415-36465-5
• The Barrytown Trilogy (Ireland into Film) . Cork University Press, Cork 2007 ISBN 1-85918-404-9
• Translation goes to the movies . Routledge, London 2009 ISBN 0-415-42286-8
• The Expanding World: Towards a Politics of Microspection . Zero Books, Winchester 2012 ISBN 1-78099-077-4
• Translation in the Digital Age . Routledge, London 2013. ISBN 978-0-415-60859-6
• Together with Barbara O'Connor (Ed.): Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis . Cork University Press, Cork 1993 ISBN 0-902561-61-8
• Together with Lynne Bowker , Dorothy Kenny and Jennifer Pearson (eds.): Unity in Diversity? Current Trends in Translation Studies . St. Jerome Press, Manchester 1998 ISBN 1-900650-15-0
• Together with Peadar Kirby and Luke Gibbons (Eds.): Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy . Pluto Press, London 2002 ISBN 0-7453-1824-X
• Together with Barbara O'Connor (Ed.): Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity . Channel View Publications, Clevedon 2003 ISBN 1-873150-53-9
• Together with Cormac O Cuilleanain (Ed.): The Languages ​​of Ireland . Four Courts Press, Dublin 2003 ISBN 1-85182-698-X
• With Peadar Kirby and Debbie Ging (Eds.): Transforming Ireland . Manchester University Press, Manchester 2009 ISBN 0-7190-7893-8

Web links

• Official Website: http://www.michaelcronin.ie/
• School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies (Dublin City University): http://www.dcu.ie/salis/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Publisher website: http://www.routledge.com/books/series/NPTS/
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 2, 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. 
3. ↑ http://www.dcu.ie/salis/ctts.shtml
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 2, 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.