CARLOS BENAVIDES
VITA
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:
2004
- Present Associate
Professor, Department of Foreign Literature and Languages,
University
of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
1999
- 2004 Assistant
Professor, 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, morphosyntax
·
The
semantics of derivational morphology
·
Conceptual
Structure
·
Semantic
features and semantic universals
·
Voseo in Latin America
PEER-REVIEWED
PUBLICATIONS:
·
“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.
·
“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.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS:
·
“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, one for the Southwest Journal of Linguistics (SWJL)
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,
2003, 2004 (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)
·
Origin
and Evolution of Romance Languages (FLL 425)
·
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, 481)
·
Business
Spanish (SPA 305)
·
Spanish
Composition and Conversation I, II (SPA 301, 302)
·
Language
and the Mind (FLL 250)
·
Spanish
Literature in Translation I, II (SPA 203, 204)
·
Intermediate
Spanish I, II (SPA 201, 202)
·
Introduction
to Hispanic Linguistics (substitution) (University of Iowa)
LANGUAGES:
·
Spanish
(native speaker)
·
English
(native-like proficiency)
·
German
(Intermediate-High level)