TLRH | Faculty in Focus: Professor Micheal Cronin

Monday, 8 March 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' with Professor
Michael Cronin (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural
Studies) and hosted by Professor Barry McCrea (University of Notre
Dame). Professor Cronin will discuss his career and his
publications including, Irish and Ecology: An Ghaeilge agus an
Éiceolaíocht (2019). About Michael Cronin Michael Cronin is 1776
Professor of French and Director of the Centre for Literary and
Cultural Translation in Trinity College Dublin. Among his published
titles are Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages and Identity
(1996); Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation (2000);
Translation and Globalization (2003); Time Tracks: Scenes from the
Irish Everyday; Irish in the New Century/An Ghaeilge san Aois Nua
(2005); Translation and Identity (2006); Translation goes to the
Movies (2009), Translation in the Digital Age (2013),
Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the
Anthropocene (2017) and Irish and Ecology: An Ghaeilge agus an
Éiceolaíocht (2019). He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and
a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. Professor Barry McCrea Barry
McCrea is a professor in the departments of English, Romance
Languages & Literatures, and Irish Language & Literature at
the University of Notre Dame, where he holds the Keough Family
Chair of Irish Studies. He is the author of two monographs –
Languages of the Night (Yale UP, 2015) which won the American
Comparative Literature Association’s René Wellek prize for the best
book of 2016 and In the Company of Strangers: Narrative and Family
in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust (Columbia UP, 2011) – as
well as a novel, The First Verse (Carroll & Graf, 2005), winner
of the Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and a Barnes and Noble
Discover award. McCrea was a Foundation Scholar at TCD, where he
took a B.A. in Spanish and French from TCD, and he holds a PhD in
Comparative Literature from Princeton University. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/