Mary Snell-Hornby

Mary Snell-Hornby (born 2 April 1940) is a British-Austrian translator and scholar.

Career Mary Snell attended Saint Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, where she attained G.C.E. Advanced and Scholarship Level in English, French and German (with Distinction) in 1958. She was awarded a State Scholarship to study English, French, German, and Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where she obtained her M.A. with First Class Honours in German Language and Literature in 1962.

The Austrian Ministry of Education granted her a post-graduate research scholarship for research in Austrian drama, which she undertook at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 1966, she received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews for her thesis The dramatic satire of Karl Kraus and Johann Nestroy. A comparative study. In 1987, the University of Zurich granted her a Ph.D. for her monograph Translation Studies - An Integrated Approach. of which she was president until 1998. From 1996 until 2009, she was an honorary professor at the University of Warwick, UK. In 2010, she was awarded an honorary doctorate of the University of Tampere, Finland. She retired from her position in Vienna in 2008, but has remained active in the field of translation studies as guest lecturer, author and editor.

Since the 1980s, she has had a major influence on the development of translation studies as an independent discipline apart from linguistics and literary studies (see the volume Übersetzungswissenschaft . Eine Neuorientierung, which she edited in 1986, and Pöchhacker et al. 2000).

Family She is daughter of Rev. Arthur Snell (d. 1969) and Florence Mary Snell, née Adams (d. 2004). She was married 6 April 1973 to Anthony Hornby, lecturer in English at the Language Centre, University of Augsburg, Germany. They have a daughter, Astrid, born 26 March 1976 in Munich. Since 1989, Snell-Hornby has held dual British and Austrian nationality. Translationswissenschaft in Wendezeiten. Ausgewählte Beiträge zwischen 1989 und 2007. (edited by Mira Kadric and Jürgen F. Schopp), 2008, Stauffenburg, Tübingen, ISBN 978-3-86057-259-7 Die Multiminoritätengesellschaft: Beiträge zum Symposium "Sprache, Identität, Translationswissenschaft" 14-15 October 2011 at the Austrian National Library (Oratorium der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien). (edited together with Mira Kadrić) Saxa, Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-939060-44-4

Visiting Professorships (selection)

October 1989: Institute of Translation Studies, University of Tampere, Finland October 1991: Institute of Translatology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic December 1992: Wei Lun Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong August 1994: CERA Professor, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium March 1995: Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand March 1997: École de Traduction et d'Interpretation, Université de Genève, Switzerland June 1998: Depto. de Filología Anglogermánica, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain September 2006: Centro de Comunicacao e Expressao, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil June 2009: Ionian University of Corfu, Greece 2010: Department of Translation Studies, University of Graz, Austria

Membership of scholarly societies

European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX). Gründungsmitglied 1984–1996. 1986–1992 Vorstandsmitglied Wiener Sprachgesellschaft: Mitglied seit 1990. 1992–1997 Vorstandsmitglied. 1992–1994 Präsidentin European Society for Translation Studies (EST): Gründungsmitglied. 1992–1998 Vorstandsmitglied und Präsidentin 1992–1998