Michael Scott Doyle

Retired Spring 2023

Press release on INDUCTION INTO SIGMA DELTA PI’S ORDEN DE DON QUIJOTE. On Saturday afternoon, May 1, 2021 during a special Zoom event organized by Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, Dr. Michael Scott Doyle, Professor of Spanish in UNC Charlotte’s Department of Languages and Culture Studies 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. Past inductees include renowned literary figures such as Carlos Fuentes, Carmen Laforet, Fernando Arrabal and Camilo José Cela, among other highly accomplished literary artists and scholars. Click here for a complete list of past honorees. Click here for story by Lynn Roberson: https://exchange.charlotte.edu/professor-of-spanish-michael-doyle-earns-honor-societys-highest-accolade-2/.

Dr. Michael S. Doyle is an Emeritus Professor of Spanish, Business Spanish and Business Language Studies, and Translation Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 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 106+ publications in print (85 single-authored), among them 16 books (7 co-authored textbooks and 7 co-authored workbooks, with Doyle as lead author; 1 literary translation published by Columbia University Press; and 1 guest-edited monographic volume); 8 book chapters; 38 articles and essays (or equivalent); 1 case study (which has had 883 downloads since 12/12/16, https://commons.emich.edu/gabc/vol5/iss1/5/); 7 interviews; 1 edited proceedings volume; 11 translations (short-story length); a 15-segment video (15 individual videos scripted and edited over three filming dates in 2001 [also directed in Fort Worth], 2010 and 2013); 1 audio podcast; and 7 reviews (2 substantive); 71 conference presentations; 72 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 46 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 hosted by UNC Charlotte on March 5-7, 2020 (https://languages.charlotte.edu/ISLSP-CIBER).

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, 1993-2022

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

Current and Ongoing 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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