Retired Spring 2023
In May of 2021, during a special event organized by Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, Dr. Michael Scott Doyle was inducted into the Order of Don Quijote, Sigma Delta Pi’s highest award that is conferred annually upon only 1-3 people worldwide. Professor Doyle’s exemplary record of scholarship and professional contributions have earned him this international distinction.
Co-Coordinator of Graduate Certificate Business Spanish
During the 2013-2014 academic year, Dr. Doyle served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Spanish at the United States Air Force Academy (DVP-USAFA). To date, Dr. Doyle has 99 publications (78 single-authored), among them 16 books (7 co-authored textbooks and 7 co-authored workbooks, with Doyle as lead author; 1 literary translation, and 1 guest-edited monographic volume); 8 book chapters; 37 articles and essays (or equivalent); 1 case study (which has 613 downloads from 12/12/16 to 8/13/20, https://commons.emich.edu/gabc/vol5/iss1/5/); 7 interviews; 1 edited proceedings volume; 11 translations (short-story length); a 15-segment video (scripted and edited over three filming dates in 2001, 2010 and 2013); 1 audio podcast; and 7 reviews (2 substantive); 70 conference presentations; 69 invited lectures, panels, and keynote addresses; and 65 workshops, the majority co-sponsored by the federally-funded Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), at professional conferences and institutions of higher learning. He has taught 45 different classes in the fields of Spanish and translation studies. Dr. Doyle has provided 23 years of administrative service: 9 as department chair, 3 as undergraduate coordinator, 11 as graduate coordinator, and one as Faculty Director of the North Carolina Semester in Spain (SIS) Consortium Program in Santander (fall 2017 and spring 2018). He was the initiating organizer and co-chair of the 5th International Symposium on Language for Specific Purposes (ISLSP) and Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Business Language Conference to be hosted by UNC Charlotte on March 5-7, 2020 (https://languages.charlotte.edu/ISLSP-CIBER). Please see https://pages.uncc.edu/michael-scott-doyle/ for more.
Education
Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia (1981)
Certificat, Sorbonne (French) (1977)
M.A., Spanish, Universidad de Salamanca (1976)
B.A., Spanish, University of Virginia (1975)
Diploma de Estudios Hispánicos (Spanish), Universidad de Barcelona (1974)
Appointments
Professor of Professor of Spanish, Business Language Studies (Spanish), and Translation Studies, UNC Charlotte, 1993-present
Chair, Department of Foreign Languages (renamed Languages and Culture Studies), UNC Charlotte, 1993-1999
Graduate Coordinator of Master of Arts in Spanish, UNC Charlotte, 2000-04, 2005-2009, 2016-2017
Faculty Director, UNC Charlotte Semester in Spain (SIS at the Universidad de Cantabria), Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 semesters
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Spanish (DVP), United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), 2013-2014
Interim Chair, Department of Psychology, UNC Charlotte, 2001-02
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, San Diego State University, 1991-93
Professor of Spanish, San Diego State University, 1990-93
Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, San Diego State University, 1988-90
Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages, University of New Orleans, 1987-88
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages, University of New Orleans, 1984-87
Undergraduate Coordinator (= Associate Chair), Department of Foreign Languages, University of New Orleans, 1984-87
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Notre Dame, 1981-84
Specific Research Interests
Business Language Studies (BLS) and Spanish for Business and International Trade (Language, Discourse, and Intercultural Communication Studies)
Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) and Spanish for the Professions and Specific Purposes (SPSP)
Translating and Translation Studies (TTS: History, Theory, and Method; Literary and Non-Literary)
Cormac McCarthy in Spanish Translation Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
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