Personal profile

Biography

Duncan received his BA, MA and DPhil in Modern Languages (French and German) from Oxford University.  He worked at the University of Paris III, Trinity College Dublin and Swansea University before joining UEA as Academic Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation in 2014. A member of the AHRC Peer Review College since 2010, he has chaired the PETRA-E Network of European literary translation training institutions since 2017. He is a General Editor of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford University Press) and the monograph series Routledge Studies in Literary Translation.

Administrative Posts

Executive Director, British Centre for Literary Translation

Areas of Expertise

Translation theory, translation and philosophy, computer-assisted literary translation; Anglo-German literary relations; History of thought in the German-speaking world (Friedrich Nietzsche); Austrian modernist literature; German Romantic literature; Comparative literature; Sarah Kofman