Andrew Peter Clement Chesterman (born 1946) is an English scholar based in Finland. He is best known for his work in Translation Studies and was Professor of Multilingual Communication at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...

from 2002 to 2010. Chesterman was CETRA Professor in 1999 (

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), a member of the executive board of the

European Society for Translation Studies The European Society for Translation Studies (EST) is an international non-profit organization that promotes research on translation, interpreting, and localization. Name and abbreviation The Society was registered on May 28, 1993 with the Bu ...

(EST) from 1998 to 2004, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center of Translation Studies (

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

) from 2007 to 2010. He has been a member of the

Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters is a Finnish academy for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. It is known in Latin as Societas Scientiarum Fennica, in Swedish as Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten, and in Finnish as Suomen Tiede ...

since 2005 and a Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland since 2008.

Career

Chesterman studied Modern Languages at

Selwyn College, Cambridge Selwyn College, Cambridge (formally Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1882 by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Augustus Selwyn (18 ...

. Afterwards he studied

Applied Linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication rese ...

at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

, obtaining a Master of Letters in 1973, and was awarded a PhD in linguistics from the University of Reading in 1988. In 1968, Chesterman moved to Finland and has been there ever since. He was mainly based at the

. In 2010, he retired from his professorship in Multilingual Communication at the University of Helsinki but is still active in Translation Studies.

Works

*''On Definiteness. A Study with Special Reference to English and Finnish'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. *''Memes of Translation. The spread of ideas in translation theory'', Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997. *''Contrastive Functional Analysis'', Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998. *''Can Theory Help Translators?: A Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface'', with Emma Wagner. Manchester: St Jerome Publishing, 2002. *''The Map. A Beginners’ Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies'', with Jenny Williams. Manchester: St Jerome Publishing, 2002.

References

External links

Andrew Chesterman in 375 humanists 20.03.2015, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chesterman, Andrew Living people British translation scholars 1946 births Writers from London Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Academic staff of the University of Helsinki English expatriates in Finland Alumni of the University of Edinburgh