Department of Humanities

Associate Professor of Spanish and Translation.
Coordinator of the Translation of English & Spanish Minor as well as the English-Spanish Translation Certificate

Dr. Orellano Norris received the Senator Dr. Judith A. Zaffirini Faculty Award for Scholarship and Service in 2021 and the TAMIU Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award in 2018. She served as Faculty Senate President during two consecutive terms (2019-2021). She is a member of the executive committee of KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, one of the country’s longest-running academics conferences held yearly at the University of Kentucky, where she also serves as director of the Translation Studies Track. She is a practicing translator and interpreter.

Education: Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies with a concentration in Historical Linguistics from Texas A&M University; M.A. in Spanish Literature from Texas A&M International University. M.A. in Spanish Translation and Interpreting from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; undergraduate degree in German, Spanish, and English Translation from the Dolmetscherschule Zürich, Switzerland.

Teaching: Translation, Spanish language, Spanish linguistics, and literature.

Research interests: Translation Studies, Golden Age Literature, and Historical Linguistics.

Recent Publications

Book:

General Alonso de León’s Expedition Diaries into Texas (1686-1690). Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. Texas A&M University Press, 2017. 255. ISBN: 978-1-62349-540-4.

Book Review:

Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America, by Dennis Herrick. Southwestern Historical
Quarterly 123.1 (2019). 116-117.