Anthony Pym was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1956. He attended Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia before studying at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he completed his PhD in Sociology in 1985. He held a fellowship at Harvard University in 1983-84 and was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Göttingen in 1992-94. Since then he has taught at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, where he is in charge of a Masters and a PhD program in Translation and Intercultural Studies. Since 2007 he has also been a Visiting Researcher at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Since 2011 he is Professor Extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is also a fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. Homepage: http://www.tinet.cat/~apym/welcome.htmlFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Exploring-Translation-Theories/119344071727?v=wall&viewas=1727690940#/profile.php?ref=name&id=1727690940You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnthonyPym