I am Emeritus Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature at University College London (UCL) and a former Director of the UCL Centre for Translation Studies. My research is mostly concerned with translation theory and history.

Monographs include The Structure of Modernist Poetry (1982), Translation in Systems (1999) and The Conference of the Tongues (2007). Edited volumes include The Manipulation of Literature: Studies in Literary Translation (1985), The Flemish Movement: A Documentary History (1992), Crosscultural Transgressions: Research Models in Translation Studies II (2002), Translating Others (2 vols., 2006) and A Literary History of the Low Countries (2009).