Michael Anthony Cronin (born 1 October 1960) is an Irish academic specialist in culture,

travel literature The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period ...

translation studies Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and Language localisation, localization. As an interdiscipline, translation studies borr ...

and the

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

. He is the current holder of the Chair of French (established 1776) at

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. Cronin is a member of the

Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ga, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier List of Irish learned societies, learned socie ...

Biography

He was born on 1 October 1960 LC identities
/ref> holds a BA in French and English from

in 1982, a MA from

University College Dublin University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland ...

and a

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awarded in 1991 from Trinity College Dublin with a thesis "Ludic elements in the prose fiction of Réjean Ducharme and Gérard Bessette" WorldCat
/ref> He is co-editor of ''

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''. He was elected a member of the

in 2008, and held the post of its Humanities Secretary. He was also the Chairperson of

Poetry Ireland Poetry Ireland ( ga, Éigse Éireann) is an organisation for poets and poetry, in both Irish and English, in the island of Ireland. It is a private nonprofit organisation that receives support from The Arts Council of Ireland and The Arts Council of ...

. He was appointed to the Ambassadors Chair at

KU Leuven KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...

for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Published works

Books written by Michael Cronin include: * ''Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. * ''Irish and Ecology / An Ghaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht.'' Dublin: Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, 2019. * ''Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene.'' Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017. * ''Translation in the Digital Age.'' Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013. ** Arabic translation published as الترجمة في العصر الرقمي Translated by Dr. Mubarak Alkhatnai of King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ** Polish translation published as ''Przekład w epoce cyfrowej'', translated by Marta Błaszkowska, Magda Heydel, Elżbieta Koziołkiewicz, Maciej Nawrocki, Aldona Pikul, Zofia Ziemann, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2016 * ''Translation Goes to the Movies.'' New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. * ''Translation and Identity.'' London: Routledge, 2006 * '' Irish in the New Century.'' Dublin: Cois Life, 2005 * ''Translation and Globalization'', Routledge, 2003. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 281 libraries **Arabic translation published as ''الترجمة والعولمة / al-Tarjamah wa-al-ʻawlamah'' **Japanese translation published as ''翻訳とグローバリゼーション : 新翻訳事始め / Hon'yaku to gurōbarizēshon : Shin hon'yaku kotohajime'' * (with Barbara O'Connor) ''Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity'', Channel View Publications, 2003. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 591 libraries WorldCat item record
/ref> * ''Time Tracks: Scenes from the Irish Everyday'', New Island, 2003. * ''Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity'', Cork University Press, 2002. * (with Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin) ''The Languages of Ireland'', Four Courts Press, 2002. * ''Translating Tomorrow: Translation, Technology and Interculturality in a Global Age]'', Routledge, 2002. * ''Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation'', Cork University Press, 2000. * ''Unity in Diversity? Current Trends in Translation Studies'', St Jerome Press, 1998. * ''Anthologie des nouvelles irlandaises'', L'Instant meme, 1997. * ''Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages and Identity'', Cork University Press, 1996. * ''Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis'', Cork University Press, 1993. Books edited by him include: * ''The Languages of Ireland'', Four Courts Press, 2003. * ''Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy'', Pluto Press, 2002.

References

External links

Official site

Home Page at Trinity College Dublin
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