CARLOS BENAVIDES

Associate Professor of Spanish & linguistics

Department of Foreign Literature and Languages

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

North Dartmouth, MA 02747

cbenavides@umassd.edu

Office phone: 508-910-6469; Fax: 508-910-6646

 

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.                                      Linguistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 1999.

                                                Dissertation: “The Semantics of Spanish Morphology.”

 

M.A.                                       Linguistics, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). 1993.

                                                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, University of Massachusetts

Dartmouth.

 

1999 - 2004                           Assistant Professor of Spanish and linguistics, Department of Foreign Literature and Languages, University of Massachusetts

                                                Dartmouth.

 

1993-1999                            Graduate Instructor of Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa.

 

1997                                       Teacher of English, University of Iowa Intensive English Program (IIEP).

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 Latin America

 

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 (Salamanca, Spain).

·        “Issues in the Teaching of the Spanish Clitic se.” 2005. AATSP Annual Conference (New York, NY).

·        “The evolution of Spanish voseo: From Rome to Latin America.” 2004. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UMass Amherst. Invited by Professor Francesco D’Introno (November 2004).

·        “La Estructura Léxico-Conceptual y el clítico se en español”. 2004. AATSP 10th Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting, Yale University (September 11, 2004).

·         “Faculty Perception and Use of IT-Mediated Classrooms,” with Omar Khalil and Susanne Scott. 2004. Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) International Business Conference, Baltimore, Maryland (March 19, 2004). Paper published in the SAM Conference Proceedings.

·         “Lexical Conceptual Structure and Verbal Polysemy.” 2002. University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Spring Linguistics Colloquium (April 27, 2002).

·        “Lexical Conceptual Structure and Spanish Derivation.” 2001. LACUS Annual Forum (Montreal, Canada).

·        “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 (New Bedford newspaper).

·        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, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

·        Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

·        American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

·        The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

 

COURSES TAUGHT

·        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 Latin America (SPA 314)

·        Culture and Civilization of Spain (SPA 312)

·        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) (University of Iowa)

 

LANGUAGES

·        Spanish (native speaker)

·        English (native-like proficiency)

·        German (Intermediate-High level)