Rey Romero is Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at
the University of Houston-Downtown, where he directs the Translation minor, the
interpreting minor, and supervises the field experience course. Dr. Romero
believes that the field of sociolinguistics should be central in ensuring
language access to linguistic minorities, whether by incorporating linguistic
concepts in interpreting and translation training, applying sociolinguistic
research on the teaching of heritage languages, or by analyzing the
sociolinguistic implications of language policy, social justice, and their
legal and health ramifications. He is
also Adjunct Professor of Legal Spanish at the University of Houston’s Law
Center, and he has taught at Georgetown University, The University of Texas-Pan
American (now UTRGV), Texas A&M University, and the University of Houston.
Dr. Romero was the president of the Linguistic Association
of the Southwest (LASSO) for the year 2019-2020. He was awarded a Funded
Faculty Leave for his research on Judeo-Spanish in 2017, and the Texas Young
Lawyer’s Association awarded him the President’s Award of Merit in 2018 for his
CLE course on Spanish for Lawyers.
Dr. Romero is certified by the American Translators
Association (2018) and he holds a certificate in Medical Interpretation (2014) and
another in Criminal Proceedings Interpretation (2017) from the Southern
California School of Interpretation. He is also a licensed trainer for the
Community Interpreter® (2018).
Dr. Romero holds B.A.s in Spanish Language and Linguistics,
Linguistics, and French Language from Rice University (2002), a Ph.D. in
Spanish Linguistics from Georgetown University (2009), a Graduate Certificate
in Public Health from the University of Texas-Health Science Center (2019), and
an Advanced Professional Analytic Linguist Certificate from Montclair State
University (2020).
