CARLOS BENAVIDES
Associate
Professor of Spanish & linguistics
Department of Foreign Literature and
Languages
cbenavides@umassd.edu
Office phone:
508-910-6469; Fax: 508-910-6646
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Linguistics,
University of
Dissertation:
“The Semantics of Spanish Morphology.”
M.A. Linguistics,
Thesis:
“The Evolution of Voseo.”
B.A. Business
Administration (Licenciatura en Administración de
Empresas),
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.
(U.N.A.H.),
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 1986.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
(Please see Faculty Activities Reports for information on teaching
effectiveness, professional activities and development, and service.)
2004 - Present Associate Professor of
Spanish and linguistics, Department of Foreign Literature and Languages,
Dartmouth.
1999
- 2004 Assistant
Professor of Spanish and linguistics, Department of Foreign Literature and
Languages,
Dartmouth.
1993-1999 Graduate Instructor
of Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
1997 Teacher
of English,
Taught English
as a Second Language to native speakers of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish,
Arabic, Spanish and
Portuguese.
1991-1993 Graduate Instructor
of Spanish, Languages and Linguistics Department, UTEP.
1990-1991 Director, Foreign
Languages Department, U.N.A.H.
·
Directed
and supervised the activities of eighty (80) foreign language teachers.
·
Planned,
monitored, and implemented departmental activities, including hiring,
scheduling of courses and budgeting.
1989 Coordinator,
English Section, Foreign Languages Department, U.N.A.H.
·
Supervised,
coordinated and evaluated the activities of forty (40) English teachers.
·
Facilitated
training sessions for new teachers.
1984-1991 English teacher,
Foreign Languages Department, U.N.A.H. Taught a variety of courses and levels
of English as a Foreign
Language to
native speakers of Spanish.
SPECIALIZATION AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
·
Hispanic
linguistics
·
Morphology,
lexical semantics
·
Conceptual
Structure
·
Semantic
features and semantic universals
·
Voseo in
PEER-REVIEWED
PUBLICATIONS
·
“El clítico se en español y la Estructura
Léxico-Conceptual”. Revista de Filología Hispánica (forthcoming).
·
“Faculty
Perceptions and Use of Instructional Technology in the College Classroom.”
2005. with Omar Khalil and Susanne Scott. Journal of Instruction Delivery Systems (JIDS)
19.2: 6-11.
·
“Lexical
Conceptual Structure and Spanish Derivation.” 2003. Journal of Language and Linguistics 2.2: 163-211.
(www.jllonline.net)
·
“La distribución
del voseo en Hispanoamérica”. 2003. Hispania
86.3: 612-623.
·
“Transporte
urbano,” short story evaluated by a panel of judges; one of the winners in
writing contest sponsored by Ediciones Nuevo Espacio. Published in a May, 2004
anthology.
·
"Headedness
in Endocentric Spanish Compounds." 1996. Torre de Papel 6.2: 29-60.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
·
“El componente
semántico Manera y los verbos en español.”
2008.
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Annual
Conference (San José, Costa Rica).
·
“La importancia
de la Estructura Conceptual para el análisis lingüístico.” 2006. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
(AATSP) Annual Conference (
·
“Issues
in the Teaching of the Spanish Clitic se.”
2005. AATSP Annual Conference (
·
“The
evolution of Spanish voseo: From Rome
to
·
“La Estructura
Léxico-Conceptual y el clítico se en
español”. 2004.
AATSP 10th Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting,
·
“Faculty Perception and Use of IT-Mediated
Classrooms,” with Omar Khalil and Susanne Scott. 2004. Society for Advancement
of Management (SAM) International Business Conference,
·
“Lexical Conceptual Structure and Verbal
Polysemy.” 2002.
·
“Lexical
Conceptual Structure and Spanish Derivation.” 2001. LACUS Annual Forum (
·
“La distribución
del voseo en Hispanoamérica.” 2001. AATSP 2001
Annual Conference (San Francisco, CA).
·
“Morphological
Constraints and Parasynthesis.” 1997. University of Iowa Linguistics Department
Colloquium.
·
"Headedness
in Endocentric Spanish Compounds." 1996. University of Iowa Linguistics
Department Colloquium.
MANUSCRIPT
REVIEWS
·
Six
for Hispania, two for the Southwest Journal of Linguistics (SWJL),
one review and one re-review for the Foreign
Language Annals.
PUBLICATIONS IN
NEWSPAPERS, WEBSITES
·
“Latino
Empowerment.” 2002. IMDiversity (online
magazine; www.IMDiversity.com)
·
“Poder
latino.” 2002. Vocero Hispano (
·
Syllabus
of Spring 2003 Business Spanish service learning project. Posted since March,
2004. National Campus Compact website (www.compact.org).
AWARDS
·
Outstanding
Teacher Award,
May, 2004 (Educational Leadership for Civic Responsibility, ELCR).
·
Certificates of
Recognition for Community Service/Service Learning: 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006 (Community Service Program,
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
·
Linguistic
Society of
·
American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
·
The
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
·
Seminar
in Spanish: English to Spanish Translation (SPA 481/581)
·
Seminar
in Spanish: Latin American Literature and Linguistic Analysis (SPA 481/581)
·
Origin
and Evolution of Romance Languages (FLL 425)
·
Language
and the Mind (Introduction to Linguistics) (FLL 350)
·
Representative
Authors of Spanish American Literature I (SPA 333)
·
Advanced
Spanish Grammar and Syntax (SPA 325)
·
Culture
and Civilization of
·
Culture
and Civilization of
·
Medical
Spanish (SPA 306, SPA 481)
·
Business
Spanish (SPA 305)
·
Advanced
Spanish Composition and Conversation (SPA 304)
·
Spanish
Composition and Conversation I, II (SPA 301, 302)
·
Spanish
Literature in Translation I, II (SPA 203, 204)
·
Intermediate
Spanish I, II (SPA 201, 202)
·
Elementary
Spanish I, II (SPA 101, 102)
·
Sociolinguistics
(FLL 450/550)
·
Introduction
to Hispanic Linguistics (substitution) (
LANGUAGES
·
Spanish
(native speaker)
·
English
(native-like proficiency)
·
German
(Intermediate-High level)