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Professor Andrew Rothwell

Professor Emeritus (Arts & Humanities)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

+44 (0) 1792 295967

a.j.rothwell@swansea.ac.uk

About

Andrew Rothwell is Professor of French and Translation Studies. His main research interests are in French poetry of the 20^th and 21^st centuries with special reference to the visual arts, literary translation, translation technologies and translator training. He has published extensively on French literary modernism, especially Dada and Surrealism, including the work of Pierre Albert-Birot, André Breton, Blaise Cendrars, Robert Desnos, Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy, as well as on contemporary poet and thinker Bernard Noël. He has also published English translations of poetry by Noël (including La Chute des temps / Timefall), Jacques Dupin, Jean-Michel Maulpoix and others, film-maker Bruno Dumont’s novels Humanity and Life of Jesus, and Emile Zola’s Thérése Raquin and La Joie de vivre / The Bright Side of Life (2018), both with Oxford World’s Classics. This last project was innovative in employing professional translation software, which has led to international presentations and publications in the very new field of Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT).

He has accumulated almost 30 person-years’ experience as External Examiner for Master’s programmes in Translation in the UK and Ireland and examined numerous PhD dissertations on both translation and literary topics. He has acted as external consultant/validator for Translation programmes at several UK universities, as well as Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (Mexico) and the Arab Open University (Jordan). He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Areas Of Expertise

Modern and contemporary French literature and visual arts
Literary translation
Translation tools and technologies
Computer-Assisted Literary Translation
Translator training

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Following his arrival in Swansea in 1999 Professor Rothwell founded Swansea’s BA and MA programmes in Translation, which have always been at the forefront of training in computerised tools for translators, and also launched the thriving PhD in Translation programme. He took the MA in Professional Translation into the prestigious European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Network, set up by the European Commission to improve translator training, when it was founded in 2009 (the MA in Translation and Interpreting was admitted in 2019), and has been a member of the EMT Board since 2014. From 2011 he has also represented Swansea on the board of the unique METS (European Mobility in Professional Translation) Consortium, in which students can spend the second year of an Extended MA studying at two different universities abroad.

Publications

Research Highlights

Rothwell, A. (2018). Émile Zola, The Bright Side of Life (La Joie de vivre) Oxford University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39412
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-bright-side-of-life-9780198753612?cc=gb&lang=en&
Rothwell, A. (2020). Bernard Noël's Bruits de Langues: ‘un sac de ténèbres | sens dessus dessous’. The Modern Language Review, 115(2), 264
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.2.0264, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50245
Rothwell, A. (2017). Noël, Nonoléon, Jabès: Anagrams and Palindromes of the papoète. The Modern Language Review, 112(1), 121-152.
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.112.1.0121, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28772
Rothwell, A. (2015). ‘Qui Es-Tu Sous La Ressemblance | Qui Va Là Sous Couvert De Moi’: the Hourglass of Poetic Identity in Bernard Noël's ‘L'ombre Du Double’. The Modern Language Review, 110(1), 121-148.
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0121, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa19969
Rothwell, A. (2013). 'et ma logique va en rond': Bernard Noël's Hourglass Figure. The Modern Language Review, 108(1), 109-128.
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.108.1.0109, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11158
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.5699/modelangrevi.108.1.0109

All Research

Journal Articles

Rothwell, A. (2020). Bernard Noël's Bruits de Langues: ‘un sac de ténèbres | sens dessus dessous’. The Modern Language Review, 115(2), 264
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.2.0264, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50245
Rothwell, A. & Svoboda, T. (2019). Tracking Translator Training in Tools and Technologies: Findings of the EMT Survey 2017. Journal of Specialised Translation, 32, 26-60.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48012
https://www.jostrans.org/issue32/art_rothwell.php
Rothwell, A. (2017). Noël, Nonoléon, Jabès: Anagrams and Palindromes of the papoète. The Modern Language Review, 112(1), 121-152.
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.112.1.0121, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28772
Rothwell, A. (2015). ‘Qui Es-Tu Sous La Ressemblance | Qui Va Là Sous Couvert De Moi’: the Hourglass of Poetic Identity in Bernard Noël's ‘L'ombre Du Double’. The Modern Language Review, 110(1), 121-148.
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0121, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa19969
Rothwell, A. (2013). 'et ma logique va en rond': Bernard Noël's Hourglass Figure. The Modern Language Review, 108(1), 109-128.
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.108.1.0109, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11158
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.5699/modelangrevi.108.1.0109
Rothwell, A. (2009). Translating 'Pure Nonsense': Walter Benjamin Meets Systran on the Dissecting Table of Dada. Romance Studies, 27(4), 259-272.
https://doi.org/10.1179/026399009X12523296128713, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11407
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/ros/2009/00000027/00000004/art00003
Rothwell, A. (2007). From Aquarium to Anatomist's Table: "Les Yeux Chimères" and the Early Poetics of Bernard Noël. The Modern Language Review, 102(3), 701
https://doi.org/10.2307/20467429, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48963
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20467429
Rothwell, A. (1996). L’Or: Cendrars between Realism and Post-Modernism’. Essays in French Literature, 32/33, 81-115.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54823

Authored Books

Fernandez Parra, M., Rothwell, A., Moorkens, J., Drugan, J., & Austermuehl, F. (2023). Translation Tools and Technologies (1st ed.). Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003160793, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61376
https://www.routledge.com/Translation-Tools-and-Technologies/Rothwell-Moorkens-Fernandez-Parra-Drugan-Austermuehl/p/book/9780367750329
Rothwell, A. (2018). Émile Zola, The Bright Side of Life (La Joie de vivre) Oxford University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39412
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-bright-side-of-life-9780198753612?cc=gb&lang=en&
Rothwell, A. (2006). Bernard Noël, La Chute des temps / Time-Fall VVV Editions.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48961
Rothwell, A. (1992). Emile Zola, Thérèse Raquin Oxford University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48960
Rothwell, A. (1989). Textual Spaces: The Poetry of Pierre Reverdy Rodopi.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48962

Book Chapters

Rothwell, A. (2011). 'Je détruis les tiroirs du cerveau': Reading Incoherence in Picabia and Automatic Writing. Dada and Beyond. Volume 1: Dada Discourses (pp. 215-228). Rodopi
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11159
http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=AVANT+26
Rothwell, A. & Drugan, J. (2011). The Rise of Translation. French Studies in and for the Twenty-First Century (pp. 155-167). Liverpool University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12456
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo12355824.html
Rothwell, A. (2011). Screen Translation and Cultural Transfer: Subtitling in the Curriculum. Conjunctions and Disruptions: Communication, Information and Media Studies in Europe (pp. 177-192). University of Deusto Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12457
http://www.saladeprensa.deusto.es/servlet/Satellite/Noticia/1321969144559/_cast/%231116925809289%231116925809312/0/c0/UniversidadDeusto/comun/render?tipoColeccion=Page
Rothwell, A. (2010). Bernard Noël, 'Les États de l’air'. Twentieth-Century French Poetry A Critical Anthology (pp. 222-229). Cambridge University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11409
http://www.cambridge.org/9780521713986
Rothwell, A. (2008). Bernard Noël et l'autre corps aéré de la peinture. Bernard Noël: Le corps du verbe (pp. 213-232). ENS-Editions
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11408
http://catalogue-editions.ens-lyon.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=29021100432060

Conference Contributions

Zybatow, L., Stauder, A., Ustaszewski, M., & Rothwell, A. (2017). CAT in the Cloud. In Translation Studies and Translation Practice: Proceedings of the 2nd International TRANSLATA Conference, 2014 (pp. 157Peter Lang.
https://doi.org/10.3726/b10842, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33016
Rothwell, A. (2006). ‘Robert Desnos parle surréaliste à volonté’. In Robert Desnos, Surrealism in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 69-108). Peter Lang.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28106

Other Research Outputs

Rothwell, A. (2012). OPTIMALE WP 5.1 Synthesis Report: Translation Tools and Technologies in the MA Curriculum
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12459
Rothwell, A. (2012). Project-based CAT tools training
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12458
http://www.ressources.univ-rennes2.fr/service-relations-internationales/optimale/attachments/article/15/WP5.1.%20Case%20study_Swansea_EN.pdf
Rothwell, A. & Svoboda, T. (n.d.) European Master's in Translation Network: Translation Tools and Technologies Survey, 2017 (anonymised results)
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa47994

Taught Modules

EGIM10F Communications skills in a foreign language - French

In this module, students will be exposed to basic communication skills in French. This module is designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the chosen foreign language. The aim of the module is to enable students to acquire a basic vocabulary and an understanding of fundamental grammatical structures so as to allow them to communicate in a written and spoken manner. Students will also acquire awareness of contemporary foreign culture from the range of materials used.
EGIM10G Communications skills in a foreign language - German

In this module, students will be exposed to basic communication skills in German. This module is designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the chosen foreign language. The aim of the module is to enable students to acquire a basic vocabulary and an understanding of fundamental grammatical structures so as to allow them to communicate in a written and spoken manner. Students will also acquire awareness of contemporary foreign culture from the range of materials used.