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Marcelo González - English to Spanish translator

Member since May '05

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English to Spanish
Spanish to English
English (monolingual)
Spanish (monolingual)
Portuguese to English


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Marcelo González
Native-Quality in Spanish & English

Saipan, North Mariana Isl. / Native in: English Native in English
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Quality Translations by Marcelo González


Specializing in: Politics & Government, Education and Cultural Studies

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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 Language and Educational Linguistics of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). 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. He has also taught in the Intensive English Program (IEP) of the University of Miami.

As for Spanish, he possesses native-like proficiency, having lived in widely diverse regions of the Spanish-speaking world, from the Southern Cone to the Iberian Peninsula, acquiring along the way 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 will be published by Ediciones Abya-Yala as Negritud Literaria en la República Dominicana. Written by Dr. Dawn Stinchcomb (Associate Professor of Afro-Hispanic literature of Purdue University), Literary blackness has been described as "a necessary and important piece of scholarship" (Caribbean Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, January-June 2005, 228-331), as well as "a stimulating text for...African Diaspora and Latin American Studies" (New West Indian Guide, Vol. 79, 2005, 363-365).

For book review, click on "Best Books."

Currently, Marcelo is in Santo Domingo, meeting Dominican publishers after finishing his assignment with Raytheon, teaching technical English at the Royal Air Defense Forces Institute of Saudi Arabia. Marcelo's Spanish translation of Gunboat democracy: US interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Panama is being considered for publication by several Latin American publishers. Written by Dr. Russell Crandall (author of Driven by drugs: US policy toward Colombia), Gunboat democracy has been named one of the "Best Books" of 2007 by Foreign Affairs. To see sample translations, as well as extended (Spanish-only) excerpts, please visit the Portfolio and Personal sections of this profile.

Click here to view the introduction of Gunboat en español, as well as three "quotable quotes" ("citas citables") from John F. Kennedy (on communism), Ronald Reagan and ex-congressman (and current mayor of Oakland) Ron Dellums (on the 1983 invasion of Grenada).


Click on book titles for sample chapters from the publishers.

Selected Graduate Courses Completed:

Advanced Technical Translation: SPAN 575
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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Contact Info:
J. Marcelino (Marcelo) González
marceloabq@hotmail.com
Skype: marceloabq


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