Susan Bassnett

Susan Bassnett ( Susan Bassnett - McGuire, born 1948 ) is a British translation scholar and university professor. She is vice-rector at the University of Warwick and founded in 1980, the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, to which she also taught until its closure in 2009. Throughout her career, she has published more than 20 books, some of which form an important support for the translation of science.

Life

Susan Bassnett came already during her childhood with many languages ​​in contact. Since she was born in England, she first learned the English language. Later, however, her family moved to Denmark, making Danish became her second language. Then she moved to Portugal, where she learned Portuguese. Then she went for her studies in Italy and learned Italian. There she began her career after their first degree. She has taught at various universities around the world, including universities in the U.S., before they came to the University of Warwick, where it acts as a professor of comparative literature until today. In 2007, she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. By his own testimony was her first publication was a translation, they have never had the intention to work as a translator.

" All my life I have had more than one language in my head. I translate to build bridges in between languages ​​and cultures and I write to understand the processes of bridge construction, today and in previous ages. "

Personal

In 2005, she lost her life partner Clive Barker, who also taught as a theater scholar in Warwick.

Significant works

• Translation Studies (1980 )
• Comparative Literature (1993 )
• The Translator as Writer ( 2006)

In addition to her scientific work she also writes poetry, which in the anthology Exchanging Lives: Poems and Translations were published in 2002.

Publications (selection )

• Translation Studies. Routledge, London 1980.
• With Piotr Kuhiwczak: Ariadne 's Thread: Polish Women Poets. Forest Books, Coleford 1988.
• With André Lefevre: Translation, History and Culture. Bloomsbury Academic, London 1990.
• Knives and Angels: Women Writers in Latin America. Zed Books, London 1990.
• Peter Grundy: Language through Literature: Creative Language Teaching through Literature. Longman, London 1993.
• With André Lefevre: Constructing Cultures: Essays on Literary Translation. Multilingual Matters, Bristol 1996.
• Studying British Cultures. Routledge, London 1997.
• Harish Trivedi with: Post- colonial Translation: Theory and Practice. Routledge, London, 1998.
• Exchanging Lives: Poems and Translations. Peepal Tree Press Ltd, Leeds 2002.
• Peter Bush: The Translator as Writer. Continuum, London, 2006.
• With Esperanca Bielsa: Translation in Global News. Routledge, London, 2008.
• Ted Hughes. Writers and Their Work Series. Northcote House, Tavistock, 2008.
• As co-editor: Political Discourse, Media and Translation. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011.