Analyzing The Composition Of Spanish Dissertation Committees In Translation And Interpreting

A study about the Spanish Doctoral Dissertations in Translation and Interpreting subjets is presented, and it is aimed at the members of the Dissertation Committees and its advisors. The database TESEO was consulted in order to identify all the dissertations presented during the period 1997-2018, as well as the members of their Dissertation Committees (president, secretary and board members). Before analyzing the data available, their gender and their institutional affiliations were labeled. Four advisors have been in charge of more than ten doctoral dissertations. A tendency towards a single-advisor direction was also detected. The Andalusian universities have generated the greatest number of Doctoral Dissertations. It was also identified a group of professors who have influence over the evaluation of these doctoral dissertations, even though they have not been in charge of a high number of doctoral dissertations within this field.