Charles Davis Mar 15, 2015:

The point here is that the terminology in Spanish is specific to each target country. Mónica's answer is, I am sure, correct for Uruguay, but it wouldn't work for Spain and I have no idea whether it would be applicable in Argentina, for example. If you give Spanish equivalents you will have to specify the country they apply to. A particular problem is that Spanish terms have different meanings in different countries. "Profesor adjunto", for example, means something different in Spain. In my opinion, the original English terms must be retained here and explained. There is no perfect equivalence between the professional structures in different countries.

Andy Watkinson Mar 15, 2015:

As Charles has pointed out, "asked and answered".
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_spanish/linguistics/482...

Charles Davis Mar 15, 2015:

In the British university system lecturer is the lowest of four ranks in the permanent teaching and research staff, which are (in ascending order) lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and professor. The first three are profesores titulares in Spanish terms and the last is a catedrático (though a reader is sometimes considered equivalent to a catedrático). The terminology in the United States is different, of course.

So both reader and lecturer correspond to profesor titular. The only way of dealing with this is to keep the English terms and explain what they mean in a note. They are untranslatable.

Further explanation here:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_spanish/linguistics/482...

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_the_United_Ki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader_(academic_rank)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecturer#Academic_usage