Member since May '05

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Spanish to English
English to Spanish

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Marcelo González
PhD in Spanish Translation Studies

Lahaina, Hawaii, United States
Local time: 12:36 HST (GMT-10)

Native in: English (Variant: US) Native in English
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Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.Linguistics
Business/Commerce (general)Journalism
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All accepted currencies U. S. dollars (usd)
KudoZ activity (PRO) PRO-level points: 4470, Questions answered: 3558, Questions asked: 97
Project History 18 projects entered    18 positive feedback from outsourcers    1 positive feedback from colleagues

Blue Board entries made by this user  2 entries

Portfolio Sample translations submitted: 5
Glossaries Advertising & Public Relations, Alliteration & Parellelism, Baseball, Business, Education, Engineering / Construction, Football (US), Health Sciences, Human Resources, Law

Translation education PhD - Monash University
Experience Years of experience: 24. Registered at ProZ.com: Mar 2005. Became a member: May 2005.
ProZ.com Certified PRO certificate(s)
Credentials English to Spanish (Monash University - Faculty of Arts. School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, verified)
Spanish to English (Monash University - Faculty of Arts. School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, verified)
Spanish to English (Westfield State University, verified)
English to Spanish (Westfield State University, verified)
Memberships N/A
Software Adobe Acrobat, MetaTexis, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint
Forum posts 29 forum posts
CV/Resume CV available upon request
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Bio
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Marcelo’s studies have taken him to several regions of the U.S. as well as overseas. In addition to a bachelor's degree from New Jersey City University and a linguistics-related master's from The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, he holds a doctorate in Translation Studies (Spanish) from Monash University -- a member of Australia's prestigious Group of Eight (Go8). His doctoral thesis, Metaphor and Agency in the English-Spanish Translation of Texts in the Social Sciences (2015), explores the cross-lingual transfer of rhetorical devices, as well as translators' potential collaborative-intervenient roles in localizing scholarly texts for new target markets.

Born and raised in the United States, Marcelo is a native speaker of English and has studied in diverse regions of the country. Having begun his higher education at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, he's also completed courses at universities in the northeast and southwest, pursuing post-bac and graduate work in Hispanic culture and translation at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University; additionally, he lectured in the Intensive English Program of the University of Miami.

As for Spanish, Marcelo has native-like proficiency, having lived in widely diverse countries of the Spanish-speaking world -- from the Southern Cone to the Iberian Peninsula -- acquiring along the way a nuanced familiarity with several dialects. Included in his sojourns are three years in the Dominican Republic, where, in addition to teaching English, he interpreted at a Santo Domingo-based dairy; two years in Puerto Rico, where he taught at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez; a year and a half in Argentina, Chile and Spain, studying in the former and teaching in the latter two; and a combined three years in Mexico and Honduras, teaching at SUNEO and Zamorano, respectively. In addition, he taught six-plus years at Northern Marianas College, and briefly held an appointment in Spanish at the University of the West Indies (UWI - Mona) where, in addition to teaching comparative English-Spanish grammar, he lectured in the Master of Arts in Translation.

His first book translation, The Development of Literary Blackness in the Dominican Republic (2004), was published as Negritud Literaria en la República Dominicana (2009) by Editorial Abya-Yala--a recipient of the Spanish government's Premio Bartolomé de las Casas. Written by Purdue University professor, Dr. Dawn Stinchcomb, Literary Blackness has been described as "a stimulating text for ... African Diaspora and Latin American Studies" (New West Indian Guide, 79, 2005). For this title in Kindle, click here.

His second book translation, Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Panama (2006), was published as Democracia a la Fuerza. Intervenciones Estadounidenses en la República Dominicana, Granada y Panamá (2012). Written by Davidson College professor, Dr. Russell Crandall, Gunboat Democracy was named one of the 'best books' of 2007 by Foreign Affairs. Containing translator-added features, including a translator's foreword and endnotes -- together with additional, author-approved, target-language references and quotations -- this expanded edition is listed on WorldCat and examined (in the theoretical framework of agency) in the above-mentioned doctoral thesis.

After five years in Southeast Asia -- at the American University in Vietnam -- Marcelo has been in Maui, where he's taught Spanish for the Hawaii Department of Education. His most recent book translation, an English version of Tomás Fernández Robaina's, "El Negro en Cuba. Colonia, República, Revolución" (2012), is in external review with a university press. For a sample translation, see the portfolio tab of this profile.

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J. Marcelino González, PhD

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Total pts earned: 4987
PRO-level pts: 4470


Top languages (PRO)
Spanish to English2207
English to Spanish2033
Portuguese to English186
Portuguese to Spanish16
English to Portuguese4
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Top general fields (PRO)
Other1949
Social Sciences785
Law/Patents541
Bus/Financial377
Art/Literary276
Pts in 4 more flds >
Top specific fields (PRO)
Education / Pedagogy1271
Government / Politics399
Law (general)300
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters252
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.171
Business/Commerce (general)140
Other136
Pts in 73 more flds >

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This user has reported completing projects in the following job categories, language pairs, and fields.

Project History Summary
Total projects18
With client feedback18
Corroborated18
100% positive (18 entries)
positive18
neutral0
negative0

Job type
Translation10
Editing/proofreading5
Interpreting3
Language pairs
Spanish to English6
English to Spanish5
English4
Spanish2
Portuguese to English2
Specialty fields
Human Resources3
Real Estate2
Advertising / Public Relations2
Education / Pedagogy2
Environment & Ecology1
Military / Defense1
Other1
Law (general)1
Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs1
Media / Multimedia1
Telecom(munications)1
Construction / Civil Engineering1
Religion1
Tourism & Travel1
Business/Commerce (general)1
Economics1
Government / Politics1
Philosophy1
Linguistics1
Other fields
Zoology2
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