Michael Cronin

Biography

Michael Cronin holds a Personal Chair in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is author of Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages and Identity (Cork University Press, 1996); Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation (Cork University Press, 2000);Translation and Globalization (London, Routledge, 2003). Time Tracks: Scenes from the Irish Everyday (Dublin, New Island, 2003. Reprinted 2003); Irish in the New Century/An Ghaeilge san Aois Nua (Dublin, Cois Life, 2005), Translation and Identity (Routledge, 2006); The Barrytown Trilogy (Cork University Press: Ireland into Film series, 2007); Translation goes to the Movies (Routledge 2009), The Expanding World: Towards a Politics of Microspection (Zero Books, 2012), Translation in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2013) and Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene (Routledge 2017). He is co-editor of Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis (Cork University Press, 1993); Anthologie de nouvelles irlandaises (Québec, L’Instant même, 1997); Unity in Diversity? Current Trends in Translation Studies (Manchester, St. Jerome Press, 1998); Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy (London, Pluto Press, 2002); Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity (Clevedon, Channel View Publications, 2003);The Languages of Ireland (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2003); Transforming Ireland, co-edited with Peadar Kirby and Debbie Ging (Manchester University Press, 2009. He was Irish Language Literature Advisor, Arts Council of Ireland (2009-2011). He is an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Academia Europaea. He is an Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques and an Honorary Member of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association. He is the Series Co-Editor for the New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies (Routledge). He is Editor-in-Chief of MTM.

Research Interest

Applied Language and Intercultural Studies