CONTRIBUTOR:

Dirk Delabastita

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Germanic Languages and Literature

INSTITUTION:

University of Namur

BIOGRAPHY:

Dirk Delabastita is Professor of English literature and literary theory at the University of Namur and is a Research Fellow at KU Leuven. His publications engage with fields such as translation theory, wordplay studies, literary multilingualism, narrative rhetoric, literary terminology, and the international circulation of Shakespeare’s works. He has co-authored several dictionaries of literary terms, including Dictionnaire des termes littéraires (in French, 2005) and Algemeen Letterkundig Lexicon (in Dutch, annually updated, open access at http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/dela012alge01_01/). He co-edited the translation studies journal Target from 2013 to 2019. His books include Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (co-edited with Ton Hoenselaars, 2015) and “Romeo and Juliet” in European Culture (co-edited with Juan F. Cerdá and Keith Gregor, 2017).