If she doesn't have a PhD, she was probably in the process of doing her doctorate. She could have been a graduate student or PhD candidate when she was teaching in Brazil.
Alelou wrote:Sometimes I think it would have been interesting to make Hoshi an idiot savant who was clueless about everything but her astonishingly brilliant translation skills, or at least someone with a bad case of Asperger's. But someone like that probably wouldn't be trusted on the bridge or a first contact situation.
Yeah, that would've been interesting, since she said that she was pretty isolated when she was a child. But someone with Aspbergers in linguistics would most probably be more concerned with the structure or the syntax of a language, as if it was a theoretical puzzle or code...and not be too interested in the SOCIAL aspect of it. Which Hoshi is...she spoke with the couple on Risa, for example. She would have turned down Archer's request to join Enterprise because it was too much of a radical change of familiar surroundings. (Or she would've hightailed back to Earth after a VERY short time.)
(And yeah, I know some academics who fit the description above. LOL)