Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, MA (Dubl., NUI), Ph.D (Cantab), Dip Appl Ling (DIT) is Associate Professor of Italian. He has published on Boccaccio (including Religion and the Clergy in Boccaccio's "Decameron", 1984) on Dante and on translation. Recently he produced a new English version of the Decameron, based on an eminent Victorian translation. He is a committee member of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association, and former chairperson of the Irish Writers' Centre. He was active in the Italia 2000 language course authoring group. Among the Italian courses which he teaches are Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Theory and Practice of Translation. He is a member of the advisory board of the Decameron Web, has recently served as external examiner for Italian in the Universities of Hull and Cardiff, and was external examiner for the Master's degree in translation at Hull between 2002 and 2006. From 2002 to 2005 he was external examiner for Italian in the University of Strathclyde; from 1996 to 1999 he was the external examiner for Italian in the University of Edinburgh. He does some computer-based language teaching with facilities provided by Trinity's Centre for Language and Communication Studies. He teaches on Trinity's MPhil degree in Medieval Language, Literature and Culture, and on the new MPhil degrees in Literary Translation and Comparative Literature. At present he is Director of Teaching & Learning (Postgraduate) in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. A former executive member of the Academic Staff Association, the Trinity College branch of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, he still serves on the Council of the Federation.
In recent years he has taken to crime fiction, under the pseudonym Cormac Millar; his second crime novel, THE GROUNDS, set in a fictional Dublin university, was published in 2006. He has begun to compile a rudimentary web guide to Irish crime writers.
His direct telephone number is 608 1527; his email address is cocullnn@tcd.ie
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Theory & Practice of Translation (Sophister Option)
Junior Sophister Translation Strategies exercises
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