Andrew Peter Clement Chesterman (born 1946) is an English scholar based in Finland. He is best known for his work in

Translation Studies Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. As an interdiscipline, translation studies borrows much from the vari ...

and was Professor of Multilingual Communication at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

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

Catholic University of Leuven University of Leuven or University of Louvain (; ) may refer to: * Old University of Leuven (1425–1797) * State University of Leuven (1817–1835) * Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) * Katholieke Universiteit Leuven or KU Leuven (1968 ...

), a member of the executive board of the European Society for Translation Studies (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 (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

) 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 learned society for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. It is a bilingual (Swedish and Finnish) science academy and the oldest of the four science academies in Finland. ...

since 2005 and a Knight, First Class, of the

Order of the White Rose of Finland The Order of the White Rose of Finland (; ) is one of three official orders in Finland, along with the Order of the Cross of Liberty, and the Order of the Lion of Finland. The President of Finland is the Grand Master of all three orders. The ...

since 2008.

Career

Chesterman studied Modern Languages at

Selwyn College, Cambridge Selwyn College, Cambridge is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1882 by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Selwyn (bishop of Lichfield), Georg ...

. 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 stu ...

at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

, obtaining a

Master of Letters A Master of Letters degree (MLitt or LittM; Latin ' or ') is a postgraduate degree. Ireland Trinity College Dublin and Maynooth University offer MLitt degrees. Trinity has offered them the longest, owing largely to its tradition as Ireland's ...

in 1973, and was awarded a PhD in linguistics from the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

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