José Dávila-Montes, Ph.D.
Dr. José Dávila-Montes Bio
Dr. José Dávila-Montes is a Professor of Translation and Interpreting in UTRGV’s Department of Writing and Language Studies. He has been serving as an Associate Dean for Assessment in the College of Liberal Arts since 2021. He holds a BA + MA degree, and a PhD degree, in Translation and Cross-Cultural Studies, as well as a Masters in Spanish Literature. He studied in Barcelona Autonomous University (Barcelona, Spain), Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland), Toyo University (Tokyo, Japan), and the State University of New York at Binghamton (New York). Before becoming a full-time translation professor, he worked for over a decade as a professional interpreter and translator in the area of quality control in manufacturing industries for several Japanese and Spanish companies, and as localization project manager, editor, and editorial director for a number of publishing houses in Spanish, English and Japanese, producing encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference works, multimedia products and language courses.
He has been involved in the publishing of over 150 titles and tens of thousands of pages. He has been teaching translation and interpreting since 1999 for five different institutions in the U.S. and Europe, were he has taught over 40 different courses in Translation, Interpreting, Spanish Language, Culture and Literature, and Japanese Language and Culture. He first started conducting assessment activities of academic programs in 2008. In 2009, he created the first full-fledged BA program in Spanish Translation and Interpreting in the State of Texas, and one of the very few in the nation, as well as the first fully online MA program in Spanish Translation in the U.S. (2010). He has authored or co-authored 20 peer-reviewed articles, chapters or books on translation studies, pedagogy, and Spanish contemporary literature and culture.