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Dr. Devin Gilbert

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Curriculum Vitae: Devin Gilbert CV

Biography

I am a translation and interpreting educator, researcher, and practitioner. The language pairs I work with are Spanish-English and Portuguese-English, and I have worked as a freelance translator and interpreter since 2018. I am very interested in pushing technology to make it easier for students to self-evaluate as they practice interpreting skills with authentic materials, and I am always on the lookout for authentic experiential/service learning experiences for my students.

Education

PhD, Kent State University, 2022

Major: Translation Studies

MA, Wake Forest University, 2018

Major: Interpreting and Translation Studies

BA, Weber State University, 2014

Major: Spanish

Teaching

SPAN 3050

Advanced Spanish LH WE, Spring 2025

SPAN 4120

Advanced Translation English-Spanish, Spring 2025

SPAN 4110

Introduction to Translation and Interpreting English-Spanish, Spring 2025

LANG 481R

Language Internship, Spring 2025

LANG 481R

Language Internship, Spring 2025

SPAN 3310

Spanish for Healthcare Professionals, Spring 2025

Presentations

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), Linguistic Huddle, "Continuously Moving toward Interpreting Expertise_ Lessons Learned from my Academic and Professional Career", UCHealth Language Services, Online. (May 2, 2025)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), ATA Professional Development Webinar Series, "The Power of Self-Reflection, Constructive Feedback, and Repetition in Interpreting", American Translators Association, Online. (March 20, 2025)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), 9th Annual Intermountain Teaching for Learning (T4L) Conference, "Guiding Students to Develop Expertise through Deliberate Practice", Intermountain Consortium of Faculty Developers, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, USA. (February 28, 2025)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), Cross-Cultural Communications 2025 Free Webinar Series #1, "Ethical Dilemmas_ Murphy’s Law’s Gift to Interpreters", Cross-Cultural Communications, LLC, Online. (January 23, 2025)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), Teaching Technology Tune-Up (T3) 2024, "Helping Language Students Navigate Machine Translation and Generative AI Translation Use-cases: Foundational Concepts and Hands-on Experimentation", Office of Teaching and Learning, Utah Valley University, Online, Utah Valley University. (November 20, 2024)

Alder, Aaron (Co-Presenter), Gilbert, Devin (Co-Presenter), American Translators Association 65th Annual Conference (ATA65), "How a Language Industry Board Helps Utah Valley University Orient its Translation and Interpreting Program's Priorities", American Translators Association, Portland, Oregon. (November 1, 2024)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Zou, Longhui , Carl, Michael , Gilbert, Devin , Pan, Jun , Laviosa, Sara , (2023) "Integrating Trados-Qualitivity Data to the CRITT TPR-DB: Measuring Post-editing Process Data in an Ecologically Valid Setting" (Issue: 1). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6589-2_4

Gilbert, Devin , Toledo-Báez, Cristina , Carl, Michael , Espino, Haydeé , Lacruz, Isabel , (2023) "Impact of Word Alignment on Word Translation Entropy and Other Metrics_ A Comparison of Translation Process Research Findings Derived from Different Word Alignment Methods" (Issue: 1, vol. American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, Volume 20). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://benjamins.com/catalog/ata.xx.10gil

Gilbert, Devin , Lacruz, Isabel , (2023) "Recent Claims of Human-Machine Parity in Translation Highlight Core Issues Surrounding the Human Evaluation of Machine Translation" (Issue: 1, vol. American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, Volume 20). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/ata.xx.05gil

Ogawa, Haruka , Gilbert, Devin , Almazroei, Samar A, Carl, Michael , (2021) "RedBird: Rendering Entropy Data and ST-Based Information into a Rich Discourse on Translation" (Issue: 1, vol. 3). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69777-8_6

Gilbert, Devin , Carl, Michael , Bizzoni, Yuri , Teich, Elke , España i Bonet, Cristina , van Genabith, Josef , (2021) "Word Alignment Dissimilarity Indicator_ Alignment Links as Conceptualizations of a Focused Bilingual Lexicon" . Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.motra-1.8/

Gilbert, Devin , Sellman, Lindsey , (2020) "Marcus Korg and Janitor Boy" . Kent, Ohio: Luna Negra Online. https://lunanegramag.com/portfolio/marcus-korg-and-janitor-boy/

Awards

Service Learning Superstar (Nov 2022)

Utah Valley University Center for Social Impact - November, 2022

In recognition of my efforts to incorporate authentic experiential service learning projects into my translation courses.

ITS Rising Scholar Award

The Graduate Program of Interpreting and Translation Studies, Wake Forest University - March 26, 2022

Awards academic faculty in the first five years of their career for excellence in translation and interpreting research.

Student Translator Award

The American Translators Association - October 26, 2018

Awarded for my translation of Angolan author Ondjaki's collection of short stories Os da minha rua (The People On My Street).

Doctoral Teaching Fellowship

Gilbert, Devin , Cross-Cultural Communications 2024 Free Webinar Series #5, "Achieving Interpreter Expertise_ Applying Principles of Deliberate Practice to Interpreter Training", , Cross-Cultural Communications, LLC, Online. (May 8, 2024)

Gilbert, Devin , Vital Language Solutions Webinar Series, "Achieving Interpreter Expertise_ Applying Principles of Deliberate Practice to Interpreter Training", , Vital Language Solutions, LLC, Online. (January 25, 2024)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), Alder, Aaron (Co-Presenter), NextGen 2023 Conference, "Applying Agile Development to Translation Curriculum Renewal in Higher Education", , FIT North America, Monterey, California. (October 7, 2023)

Gilbert, Devin , NextGen 2023 Conference, "Terp: An Interactive Dialogue Interpreting Training Platform", , FIT North America, Monterey, California. (October 7, 2023)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), National Association of Educational Translators and Interpreters of Spoken Languages Third Annual Virtual Conference, "Terp: Web-based Interpreting Training Platform", , National Association of Educational Translators and Interpreters of Spoken Languages, Virtual. (July 28, 2023)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), Utah Valley University 1st Annual Symposium of Teaching and Learning, "Re-imagining the User Experience for Solo Practice in Language Interpreting Training", , Office of Teaching and Learning, Utah Valley University, Online from Orem, Utah. (March 30, 2023)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), 12th American Portuguese Studies Association Conference, "Recreating Perspectives within Perspectives_ Translating Ondjaki's Childlike View of an Angolan Community for an American Audience", , American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA. (October 6, 2022)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), UTIA Webinar Series, "Put Horse in Front of Cart_ Starting every Translation Project with an Effective Translation Brief", , Utah Translators and Interpreters Association, Online. (August 1, 2022)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), 10th EST Congress_ Advancing Translation Studies, "Testing the Usefulness of an Automatic Machine Translation Accuracy Indicator within Trados Studio_ Empirical Data and Post-editor Perceptions", , European Society for Translation Studies, Oslo, Norway. (June 22, 2022)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), 9th Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies (APFTIS 2022), "Solving Terminology Management Pain Points_ One Termbase Management System to Rule Them All", , Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. (March 26, 2022)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP) 2021, "CRITT TPR-DB Live Data Analysis", , Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University, Online, Columbus, Ohio, USA. (September 15, 2021)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), Carl, Michael (Presenter & Author), First Workshop on Modelling Translation_ Translatology in the Digital Age (MoTra21), "Word Alignment Dissimilarity Indicator_ Alignment Links as Conceptualizations of a Focused Bilingual Lexicon", , Universität des Saarlandes, Online, Berlin. (May 31, 2021)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), TT5: Translation in Transition_ Human and Machine Intelligence, "Using Commercially Available Customizable NMT to Study Translator Style", , Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology (CRITT), Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA. (October 15, 2020)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), ALTA41: Performance, Props, and Platforms, "Bilingual reading of a selection from my translation of Ondjaki's Os da minha rua (The People On My Street)", , The American Literary Translators Association, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. (November 2, 2018)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), TESOL/Applied Linguistics Graduate Students (TALGS), "Phonology Focused First Weeks of Second Language Learning", , East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. (February 10, 2018)

Gilbert, Devin (Presenter & Author), National Undergraduate Literature Conference, "El guerrero del Antifaz_ maurofobia y el regimen de Franco", , Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA. (April 2, 2014)

Gilbert, Devin , (2020) "Using Commercially Available Customizable NMT to Study Translator Style" . Kent, Ohio: Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology. https://devrobgilb.com/Files/TT5_Oct_2020_BookOfAbstracts.pdf#page=19

Almazroei, Samar , Ogawa, Haruka , Gilbert, Devin , (2019) "Investigating Correlations Between Human Translation and MT Output" . Dublin: European Association for Machine Translation. https://aclanthology.org/W19-7006/