Researching Tom Cheesman
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1530 people with the Cheesman surname? In that year Cheesman was ranked number 2143 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Tom means "Form of THOMAS. a twin" and is of Greek origin.
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Tom Cheesman
Tom Cheesman (born 1961 in Liverpool) is a Reader in German at Swansea University, literary critic and literary translator.
Tom is Principal Investigator on the collaborative, "Version Variation Visualisation" project. which investigates digital humanities approaches to analysing re-translations. His Case Study on Translations of Shakespeare's Othello investigates by advanced technology, how and why different translations of the same original text often differ significantly from each other. At this, initial stage, the project will concentrate its investigations on works of William Shakespeare.
Cheesman grew up in Durham, temporarily lived in Germany and France and now lives in Swansea, Wales.
The doctor of philology has numerous contributions (books and articles in journals) published in particular in the field of intercultural literature and has also published books himself. He has published in German.
Tom was the Principal Researcher on the "Axial Writing Project" (1998–2002), part of the ESRC Transnational Communities Research Programme, and co-established non-profit "Hafan Books" in 2003, to publish literary texts by refugees in Wales. Tom is currently (2014) the treasurer of Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group.
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