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  1. “Minun suomalainen on niin paha”

    Article • February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  2. Review of Robert-Foley (2023): Experimental Translation: The Work of Translation in the Age of Algorithmic Production

    Article • Target International Journal of Translation Studies, April 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  3. Conclusion (DR)

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  4. Dead Performatives (Come Back to Life)

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  5. Experimental Translation

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  6. Materializing the Body

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  7. Pornography and Performativity

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  8. That Dangerous Supplement

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  9. The Perlocutionary Effect

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  10. Translation as Resistance and Cooptation

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  11. Translation, Pornography, Performativity

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  12. Zhuangzi Inside Out

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  13. Jonathan Evans interviews Douglas Robinson about his career in translation and translation studies

    Article • The Journal of Specialised Translation, July 2024, Cantonal and University Library Fribourg

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  14. Introduction

    Article • June 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  15. Preliminary Material

    Article • June 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  16. Bringing before the Eyes (and into the Fingers)

    Article • June 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  17. Bringing before the Ears (and into the Mouth)

    Article • June 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  18. Conclusion: Disrupting the Flows of Persuasivity (Ethically)

    Article • June 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  19. The Touretter Sublime

    Article • June 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  20. Roundtable Discussion: Translation in Creativity

    Article • Journal of Literary Multilingualism, April 2024, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  21. Reframing translation as an avant-garde art-form

    Article • September 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  22. This book asks a long series of searching questions about key issues in translation studies.

    Article • July 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  23. This is an exploration of Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" and machine translation.

    Article • Babel Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation / Revista Internacional de Traducción, July 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  24. Agency

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  25. Conclusion

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  26. Difference (the Ethics of)

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  27. Eurocentrism (Attitudes Toward)

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  28. Hermeneutics

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  29. Language

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  30. Norms

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  31. Rhetoric

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  32. World Literature

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  33. Supercharging Kobus Marais's developmentalist/complexity-based theory of translation

    Article • STRIDON Studies in Translation and Interpreting, June 2022, University of Ljubljana

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  34. Reframing the Wachowskis' Sense8 in terms of cultural translation

    Article • Perspectives, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  35. George Steiner’s Hermeneutic Motion and the Ontology, Ethics, and Epistemology of Translation

    Article • Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics, October 2021, Leipzig University Library

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  36. Understanding how norms are formed affectively in the individual's experience

    Article • Translation Cognition & Behavior, May 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  37. Rethinking dynamic equivalence as a rhetorical construct

    Article • Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  38. A review of Kobus Marais's new monograph

    Article • The Translator, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  39. Translation is not the pure indirect report it is reputed to be

    Article • June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  40. One line of historical speculation is that the translation of sacred texts was for millennia tabooed

    Article • June 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  41. Does Chantal Wright's English translation of Tawada promote the author's international reputation?

    Article • Journal of World Literature, January 2018, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  42. Juri Lotman should have published bilingually in Russian and English

    Article • Crossroads A Journal of English Studies, January 2018, University of Bialystok

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  43. "What Kind of Literature is a Literary Translation?" is pretty plain language!

    Article • Target International Journal of Translation Studies, September 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  44. Translationality as transformation in the medical humanities

    Article • May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  45. Is Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) world literature, or not? If not, why not?

    Article • March 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  46. The radical challenge to Translation Studies coming from Sakai Naoki, Jon Solomon, and Lydia H. Liu

    Article • February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  47. Chapter 2 of Aleksis Kivi and/as World Literature

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  48. A study of efforts to canonize Kivi in world literature.

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  49. A historical overview of conceptions of World Literature

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  50. Since Kivi was a minoritarian writer, he needs to be translated in a minoritarian way

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  51. A study of the four stages of Aleksis Kivi's canonization as Finland's greatest writer.

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  52. Bibliography

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  53. Preliminary Material

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  54. Index

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  55. Appendix 1 The Evidence

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  56. Appendix 2 The Finnish Background

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  57. The first English translation of Kivi's great one-act

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  58. An edited essay collection exploring Martha Cheung's pushing-hands theory of translation.

    Article • May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson, Content writer Beatriz Mizell

  59. A reflection on the reception of The Translator's Turn over the last 25 years.

    Article • Translation and Interpreting Studies, December 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  60. Argues that Translation Studies may be heading for a new Turn ...

    Article • Translation Studies, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  61. Intercultural (East-West) thinking on translation and language

    Article • June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  62. A brief checklist for a hermeneutics of translation.

    Article • January 2015, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  63. A brief introduction to postcolonial translation theory for undergraduates.

    Article • April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  64. A 270,000-word anthology of Western translation theory.

    Article • April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  65. This is a response to Andrew Chesterman on Eurocentrism in TS.

    Article • Translation Studies, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  66. The introduction to Feeling Extended.

    Article • August 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  67. A reading of Hegel on tools as extended mind.

    Article • August 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  68. A cross-reading of Peirce on qualia and interpretants.

    Article • August 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  69. An attempt to engage Adams&Aizawa and Fodor at the simplest level on language.

    Article • August 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  70. A chapter on speech acts in Feeling Extended.

    Article • August 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  71. The final chapter of Feeling Extended, on sociality as extended body-becoming-mind.

    Article • August 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  72. A review of Pier-Pascale's English translation of Meschonnic's Ethics and Politics of Translating.

    Article • The Translator, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  73. Schleiermacher's Social Ecologies of Translation

    Article • January 2013, Zeta Books

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  74. Mind doesn't literally extend--but it feels like it does, and that makes a difference.

    Article • January 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  75. Becoming a Translator

    Article • October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  76. What Sways the Translator

    Article • May 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  77. A dialogue with Caryl Emerson on Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature

    Article • Comparative Literature Studies, January 2010, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  78. A dialogue with Caryl Emerson on Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature

    Article • Comparative Literature Studies, January 2010, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  79. A performative reading of Brecht's theory of the Verfremdungseffekt.

    Article • TDR/The Drama Review, December 2007, The MIT Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  80. The double-bind of translation understood geopolitically

    Article • Translation and Interpreting Studies, January 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  81. We are more closely connected than we imagine

    Article • Translation and Interpreting Studies, January 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  82. Performative Pragmatics

    Article • September 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  83. Becoming a Translator

    Article • March 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  84. How to become a translator

    Article • September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  85. A counterlinguistics.

    Article • September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  86. Rethinking the role of the personal anecdote in Translation Studies

    Article • Meta Journal des traducteurs, January 1999, Consortium Erudit

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  87. Kugelmass, translator

    Article • January 1998, John Benjamins

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  88. Looking Through Translation: A Response to Gideon Toury and Theo Hermans

    Article • Current Issues In Language and Society, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  89. Tejaswini Niranjana, retranslation, and the problem of foreignism

    Article • Tradterm, December 1997, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  90. Translators Through History. Edited by Jean Delisle and Judith Woodsworth. Pp. xvi+345. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995. Pb. £34.

    Article • Translation and Literature, March 1997, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  91. A review of Banting's book.

    Article • Translation and Literature, March 1997, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  92. A review of Translators Through History

    Article • Translation and Literature, January 1997, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  93. A review of Banting's book.

    Article • Translation and Literature, January 1997, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  94. What is Translation? Centifugal Theories, Critical Interventions

    Article • January 1997, Kent State University

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  95. Scripture and Translation. By Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig. Translated by Lawrence Rosenwald, with Everett Fox. Pp. liv+223. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Hb. $25.

    Article • Translation and Literature, March 1996, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  96. Scripture and Translation. By Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig. Translated by Lawrence Rosenwald, with Everett Fox. Pp. liv+223. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Hb. $25.

    Article • Translation and Literature, January 1996, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  97. Theorizing Translation in a Woman’s Voice

    Article • The Translator, November 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  98. A. W. Schlegel on the German Homer

    Article • Translation and Literature, May 1994, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  99. Translation Theory and Practice: Reassembling the Tower (review)

    Article • Philosophy and Literature, January 1994, Project Muse

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  100. Decolonizing Translation

    Article • Translation and Literature, September 1993, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  101. A Polysystems Reader

    Article • Translation Review, September 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  102. Buber's account of his and Franz Rosenzweig's translation of the Hebrew Bible.

    Article • Translation and Literature, September 1993, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  103. A Lacanian/Deleuzean reading of Ring Lardner

    Article • February 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  104. Conclusion

    Article • February 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  105. The Ascetic Lover

    Article • February 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  106. A Lacanian reading of Ring Lardner's "Who Dealt?"

    Article • February 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  107. The Conflicted Writer

    Article • February 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  108. Becoming Minor

    Article • February 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  109. Lardner’s Dual Audience

    Article • February 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  110. Reading Beyond the Ending

    Article • February 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  111. Two dominant traditions for translation studies traced back to two Church Fathers

    Article • Translation and Literature, April 1992, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  112. Ring Lardner's Dual Audience and the Capitalist Double Bind

    Article • American Literary History, January 1992, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  113. Readings in Translation Theory

    Article • South Central Review, January 1992, JSTOR

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  114. Henry James and Euphemism

    Article • College English, April 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  115. The Trivialization of American Literature

    Article • American Quarterly, June 1988, JSTOR

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  116. Dear Harold

    Article • New Literary History, January 1988, JSTOR

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  117. Dogmatizing Discourse

    Article • Poe Studies, December 1986, Wiley

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  118. A reading of 1984 articles by Silvana Borutti and Herman Parret

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, December 1986, Elsevier

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  119. Against representation

    Article • Studia Neophilologica, January 1986, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  120. Nixon in Crisis-Land: The Rhetoric of "Six Crises"

    Article • Journal of American Culture, March 1985, Wiley

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  121. Reads criticism of Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym over a thirty-year period

    Article • Poe Studies, December 1982, Wiley

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  122. A line-by-line commentary on Schleiermacher's 1813 Academy address

    Article • Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  123. On Arguing from Analogy

    Article • Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  124. On Patriotism, Moralism, and Mysticism

    Article • Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  125. On the Foreign (fremd) and the Strange (fremd)

    Article • Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  126. On Reading as Situated Social Interaction

    Article • Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  127. On Icotic Processes

    Article • Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  128. Introduction

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  129. Experience

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  130. People

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  131. Languages

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  132. The translator as learner

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  133. Cultures

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  134. External knowledge

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  135. Internal knowledge

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  136. The process of translation

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  137. Working people

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  138. Social networks

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  139. The final chapter in Becoming a Translator

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  140. Appendix for teachers

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  141. Works cited

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  142. Constative and performative linguistics

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  143. Introduction

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  144. Translatorial performatives

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  145. Iterability

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  146. Somatic markers

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  147. The translator’s habitus

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  148. Double-voicing

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  149. Conversational implicature

    Article • Taylor & Francis

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  150. Intendants and interpretants

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  151. Conversational invocature

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  152. Conclusion

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson

  153. Foreword by Douglas Robinson 17

    Article • Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Professor Douglas J. Robinson