Gladys Matthews

Gladys Matthews was appointed Assistant Professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston in the spring of 2007 and assumed the directorship of the College of Charleston's graduate programs in legal and medical interpreting in July. Her Bachelor's degree in French is from the University of Costa Rica, and she has a Master's degree (in translation and terminology) and a Ph.D. (in linguistics with an emphasis on legal translation) from the Universite Laval in Quebec. Her doctoral dissertation was a trilingual analysis of the translation of documents related to the dispute resolution process of NAFTA. She has a background in court interpreting and is a certified court interpreter.

She has taught translation at the Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). Her research interests include legal language and teaching methodology of translation and interpretation. Her most recent accomplishments include the translation into Spanish of a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on a study of the education system of the Dominican Republic. Dr. Matthews also recently received the 2009 Excel Award for outstanding Faculty of the Year for the School of Languages, Culture, and World Affairs.