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Marcelo’s academic preparation includes universities in several US states. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from New Jersey City University, as well as a Master of Arts from the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation and Language Education of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. In addition, he completed a year of doctoral studies in education policy at Florida State University, where he also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the College of Education (2003-2004).

Born and raised in the United States, Marcelo is a native-speaker of the English language. Over the past twenty years, he has lived in linguistically diverse regions of the United States, from the east coast to the Hawaiian Islands, where he began his higher education at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He has also taught in the Intensive English Program (IEP) of the University of Miami.

As for Spanish, Marcelo has native-level proficiency, having lived in widely diverse regions of the Spanish-speaking world, from the Southern Cone to the Iberian Peninsula, thus acquiring familiarity with several of the language’s dialects. Included in his travels are three years in the Dominican Republic, where he taught English and worked as an in-house interpreter at a Santo Domingo-based dairy, two years in Puerto Rico, where he taught English at the University of Puerto Rico, a year between Argentina and Spain, and over two years in Mexico, where he taught English at the Universidad del Papaloapan and served as an interpreter for state and national authorities. (For details and client comments, click here.)

Marcelo's Spanish translation of The development of literary blackness in the Dominican Republic has been published as Negritud Literaria en la República Dominicana by the award-winning, South American publishing house Abya-Yala, a recipient of the prestigious Premio Bartolomé de las Casas (awarded by the Spanish government's Secretaría de Estado de Cooperación Internacional). Written by Dr. Dawn Stinchcomb, Literary Blackness has been described as "a necessary and important piece of scholarship" (Caribbean Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, January-June 2005), as well as "a stimulating text for...African Diaspora and Latin American Studies" (New West Indian Guide, Vol. 79, 2005). Now available on Amazon, click here to purchase this expertly translated scholarly text for just $19.95 (with free "SuperSaver Shipping" on orders over $25).

Click here to read an article about Marcelo in the Saipan Tribune.

Marcelo resides on the western Pacific island of Saipan, where he teaches English and Spanish at Northern Marianas College. His translation of Gunboat democracy: US interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Panama has been published as Democracia a la fuerza. Intervenciones estadounidenses en la República Dominicana, Granada y Panamá by the Madrid-based Editorial Manuscritos. Written by Dr. Russell Crandall, Gunboat Democracy was named one of the "Best Books" of 2007 by the respected journal Foreign Affairs. Now available on the publisher's website, click here to purchase this expertly translated academic text, with over 500 endnotes and numerous photos, as well as additional notes and references by the translator, for just €24.

To read excerpts (in Spanish) and side-by-side translations, please visit the Personal and Portfolio tabs, respectively. Click here to read the prologue (in Spanish) of this recently published translation.

For a book review of Gunboat in English, click on "Best Books."Selected Graduate Courses Completed:

Advanced Technical Translation: SPAN 595
New Mexico State University
Special Topics: Spanish Translation: SPAN 590
New Mexico State University
Advanced Study: Hispanic Culture: SPAN 551
New Mexico State University
Hispanic Folklore of the Southwest: SPAN 579
University of New Mexico

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J. Marcelino (Marcelo) González
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