Daryl Hague

Dr. Daryl R. Hague was raised in Yakima, Washington, where he regularly borrowed apples from local orchardists after football practice. His high school years were distinguished by the lengthy cartoons he used to draw on the adding machine paper in his accounting class. He served an LDS mission in Honduras, where he played the piano for many church meetings. Upon returning from his mission, Dr. Hague completed a Spanish translation degree along with a philosophy minor at BYU. He also sang in the chorus for several BYU operas, one of which (“Ruddigore”) was the first BYU opera to turn a profit. Upon graduating from BYU, Dr. Hague enrolled in the University of Washington’s law school. He did some legal translation during that time and also served as a member of the Law Review. During his second year in law school, he met his future wife, Annie, who was completing a nursing master’s degree. After graduating from law school, Dr. Hague practiced law in Anchorage, Alaska. After three years of law practice, Dr. Hague recognized that Spanish was his first love and decided to seek an academic career in Spanish. He then earned his master’s in Spanish Pedagogy (BYU, 1996) and his doctorate in Comparative Literature (2002, SUNY-Binghamton). He considers his most meaningful work to be his translation training articles and his recent translations of two novels by Nicaragua’s Sergio Ramírez: Ya nadie llora por mí (English title: No One Weeps for Me Now, 2022) and Tongolele no sabe bailar (English title: Dead Men Cast No Shadows, 2023). He was promoted to full professor in 2022.

Commonly Taught Courses

SPAN 321, SPAN 415, SPAN 416, SPAN 417, SPAN 418

Degrees

BA, Brigham Young Univ., 1987;
JD, Univ. of Washington, 1990;
MA, Brigham Young Univ., 1996;
PhD, State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, 2002