University of Texas at Brownsville

Faculty Member, Modern Languages

Associate Professor

College of Liberal Arts

Thesis Title: Traducción y publicidad: traduciendo la persuasión

About

Associate Professor of Translation and Interpreting
Coordinator of Translation Programs (AA, BA, MA).

He studied in Barcelona Autonomous University (Barcelona, Spain), where he obtained his BA + MA in Translation and Interpreting and a PhD in Translation and Cross-Cultural Studies. He also studied in Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland), Toyo University (Tokyo, Japan) and the State University of New York at Binghamton (New York), where he obtained an MA in Spanish Literature.

He is the coordinator of the undergraduate and graduate Translation Programs in UTB, and the Director of the Translation and Interpreting Office (T&iO)  (www.utb.edu/translation) in the Department of Modern Languages. He also coordinates a fully online MA program in Audiovisual Translation by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (http://metav.uab.cat/acc/)

He has been teaching Translation, Interpreting, Spanish and Japanese Language since 1999 in Barcelona Autonomous University (Spain), State University of New York at Binghamton, Hunter College of New York, Dublin City University and the University of Texas at Brownsville. He also worked as a professional interpreter and translator, editor of encyclopedias, reference works and multimedia products, working in English, Spanish, Japanese and Catalan.

Education:
B.A. + MA Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, 1998
M.A. State University of New York at Binghamton, 2006
Ph.D. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2008

Books published:
"El límite y el yo poético en Miguel Hernández: Un estudio desde el Psicoanálisis de Jacques Lacan" (2009). Lambert Academic Publishing: Köln (68 p.)
“La traducción de la persuasión publicitaria” (2008). The Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston NY. (680 p.)
“Castellers de Barcelona: 35 anys” (2004). Dux Editorial: Barecelona, Spain (255 p.).


Interests:
Translation, Cross-cultural Studies, Rhetoric, Semiotics, Advertising, Psycholinguistics, Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Grammar, Cognitive Processes of Translation, Multimedia Translation, Corpus Linguistics, Japanese Language, Spanish Drama and Spanish Poetry.

Courses taught: (UTB only)
§ JAPN 1311 —Elementary Japanese I
§ JAPN 1312 —Elementary Japanese II
§ SPAN 1373 —Basic Spanish for Bilinguals
§ SPAN 3330 —Advanced Spanish Grammar
§ SPAN 4303 —Hispanic Civilization
§ SPAN 4369 —Hispanic Theater
§ TRSP /SPAN 3333 (Cross-listed) —Introduction to English-Spanish Translation
§ TRSP/SPAN 3334 (Cross-listed) —Translation Technologies.
§ TRSP/SPAN 3335 (Cross-listed) —Topics in Translation: Multimedia Translation
§ TRSP/SPAN 3335 (Cross-listed) —Topics in Translation: Medical Interpreting Internship
§ TRSP/SPAN 3335 (Cross-listed) —Topics in Translation: Legal Translation Internship
§ TRSP/SPAN 3335 (Cross-listed) —Topics in Translation: Business Translation Internship
§ TRSP/SPAN 4334 (Cross-listed) —Legal Translation (regular & online)
§ TRSP/SPAN 4332 (Cross-listed) —Commercial Translation (regular & online)
§ TRSP/INTG 4336 (Cross-listed) — Interpreting I
§ TRSP/SPAN 6320 (Cross-listed) —Translation Workshop I
§ TRSP/SPAN 6330 (Cross-listed) — Translation Theory
§ TRSP/SPAN 6335 (Cross-listed) — Topics in Translation: Translation and Conquest
§ TRSP/SPAN 6335 (Cross-listed) — Topics in Translation: Translation Projects
§ SPAN 6380 — Special Topics in Hispanic Language and Culture: Semiotics
§ SPAN 6380 — Special Topics in Hispanic Language and Culture: Translation Theory
§ INTG 6376 — Consecutive Interpreting
§ INTG 6377 — Simultaneous Interpreting

Online links:
http://utb.academia.edu/JoseJosepDávilaMontes
www.jdavila.com
www.utb-translation.org
www.fti.uab.es/onptav

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