Vicente Guillot, ABD  

Associate Professor, Chair
World Languages and Cultures
Coordinator of the Certificate in Community Interpreting
608-796-3492
vcguillot@viterbo.edu 

Education:  

• ABD. Interpreting Studies. Universidad de Alicante, Spain.
• M.A. Spanish Literature, Villanova University, PA.
• B.A. English and Spanish, Universitat de València, Spain.
• B.A. Spanish and Catalan Education, Universitat de València, Spain.

Courses Taught:  

• Introduction to Translation
• Hispanic Films and Literature
• Introduction to Interpreting Principles
• Spanish for Health Care.
• Contemporary Issues in the Spanish Speaking World
• Civilization of Spain
• Literature of Spain
• Culture Studies in México
• Elementary Spanish
• Intermediate Spanish

Research Interests:  

• Community Interpreting
• Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Films and Literature
• Spanish Civil War

Scholarly Presentations:  

• April, 2011. "The Need for Training in Community Interpreting: Viterbo University's Certificate". Vicente Guillot, Maribel Bird, and Melissa Wallace. (LALAC) Workshop on Teaching, Service and Research. University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.  
• Feb., 2011. ”La Guerra Civil española a través del cine y del testimonio: el antifascismo y los brigadistas internacionales” Cine Lit VII. Portland State University, Oregon State University and Northwest Film Festival.
• July, 2010 “La competencia intercultural en los programas de formación de intérpretes en ámbitos sociales en los EE.UU.”  Research project presentation. Universitat d’Alacant (Spain).
• June, 2010. “When Translation Theory Informs Interpreting Practice: Insights into Cultural Competence and Codes of Ethics from the Polysystems School” at Emerging Topics in Translation and Interpreting, (SSLMIT). Università degli Studi di Trieste (Italy).
• April, 2010. “In Search of a Definition of the Role of the Community Interpreter: The Partnering of Descriptive Translation Studies and Professional Codes of Practice” at the 13th Annual Red River Conference on World Literature. North Dakota State University. Fargo, N.D. 
• March, 2008. “Realidad y ficción: el sentimiento antifascista de los brigadistas internacionales y de las protagonistas femeninas en películas sobre la Guerra Civil” at the "Spanishness” in the Spanish Novel and Cinema Conference. University of North Texas. Denton, Texas.  
• Feb., 2007. “Las ventajas del cuento en Lucía y el sexo de Julio Medem” at the Cine-Lit VI Conference on Hispanic Film and Fiction. Oregon State University and Portland State University.  
• Nov., 2005. “La memoria imborrable, el testimonio de la Guerra Civil a través de las cartas de un brigadista” at the 47th Annual MMLA Convention. Milwaukee, Wis. 
• May, 2002. “Honor, amor y clase social: El perro del hortelano de Lope de Vega y Pilar Miró” 22nd Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Publications:  

• In collaboration with the students in SPAN 412 (Intro to Translation), we translated a document, Wisconsin College Academy Brochure. This is an on-line and printed publication of the English version of the brochure for the Wisconsin College Academy. September, 2011.
• Billy el toro. Children’s Literature translation. A translation of Billy the Bull by Ted Hallisey. May 2008. 
• “Las dos Colmenas”. Anuario de Cine y Literatura en Español, Vol. I. Villanova University. Villanova, PA: 1995 (37-46).