John D. Rutherford
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John David Rutherford MA, D.Phil is an Emeritus Fellow
(2008) of The Queen's College, Oxford
, a Hispanist
and an award-winning novelist and translator from Spanish
to English.
He has been Praelector in Spanish, Laming Resident Fellow, and Secretary of the Laming Committee.
Rutherford lectured on medieval, Golden Age
and modern Spanish literature, and modern Spanish-American literature. His interests include Galician
studies, and the theory and practice of literary translation. He was decorated by King Juan Carlos of Spain for his 2005 translation of Leopoldo Alas (‘Clarín’)'s La Regenta, the first translation into English of the book.
A past president of the International Association of Galician Studies (AEIG) from 1994 to 1997, Rutherford is the Director of the Centre for Galician Studies at the University of Oxford and belongs to the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland. He is an honorary member of the Real Academia Gallega (Royal Galician Academy).
Translations
Emeritus
Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...
(2008) of The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, founded 1341, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Queen's is centrally situated on the High Street, and is renowned for its 18th-century architecture...
, a Hispanist
Hispanist
A Hispanist is a scholar specialising in Hispanic studies, that is Spanish or Portuguese language, literature, linguistics, or civilization, and by extension, Basque, Catalan and Galician....
and an award-winning novelist and translator from Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
to English.
Studies
Rutherford started his Spanish studies at Wadham College before going on to St Antony's College in 1969, although he had already started lecturing at Queen's College the previous year.He has been Praelector in Spanish, Laming Resident Fellow, and Secretary of the Laming Committee.
Rutherford lectured on medieval, Golden Age
Spanish Golden Age
The Spanish Golden Age is a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain, coinciding with the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. El Siglo de Oro does not imply precise dates and is usually considered to have lasted longer than an actual century...
and modern Spanish literature, and modern Spanish-American literature. His interests include Galician
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
studies, and the theory and practice of literary translation. He was decorated by King Juan Carlos of Spain for his 2005 translation of Leopoldo Alas (‘Clarín’)'s La Regenta, the first translation into English of the book.
A past president of the International Association of Galician Studies (AEIG) from 1994 to 1997, Rutherford is the Director of the Centre for Galician Studies at the University of Oxford and belongs to the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland. He is an honorary member of the Real Academia Gallega (Royal Galician Academy).
Publications
Own publications- As frechas de ouro (Editorial Galaxia, 2004)
- Breve historia del pícaro preliterario (Universidade de Vigo, 2001)
Translations
- The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Penguin Classics, 2000)
- La RegentaLa regentaLa Regenta is a realist novel by Spanish author Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, published in 1884 and 1885.-Plot:The story is set in Vetusta , where the main character of the work, Ana Ozores "La Regenta", marries the former prime magistrate of the city, Víctor Quintanar, a kind...
by Leopoldo Alas (Penguin Classics, 2005)