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Quintanilla, Alex

Assistant Professor - Spanish
Modern Foreign Languages

aquintan@butler.edu
317/940-8557


Tue 9:35am-10:50am, Thu 2:25pm-3:40pm. JH 391A
http://blue.butler.edu/~aquintan


Academic/Professional/Personal Focus

Areas of Expertise

- Spanish Dialectology

- Spanish Phonetics

- Spanish Sociolinguistics

- Hispanic Lexicography

Contributions: (published works or studies, conference presentations)

- 2012. Esbozo de un estudio de actitudes lingüísticas en El Salvador. Revista Española de Lingüística, 42.

- 2011. Nueva ortografía de la lengua española (contributor). Planeta.

- 2010. Diccionario de americanismos (contributor), Alfaguara.

- 2009.
Actitudes de los hablantes de San Salvador hacia el tuteo y el voseo. Hispania, 92 (2), 361-373.

- 2008.
El voseo y el modo imperativo: Apuntes sobre el verbo ir. En Plural, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, 3 (4).

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2005. Reconsideraciones sobre la delimitación y el uso del voseo americano. Cuadernos Cervantes de la lengua española, 11(59-60), 66-74.
 

Butler Assignment (classes or work duties)

- Director of the Study Abroad program in Costa Rica (summer 2013).

- Director of the Study Abroad program in Guadalajara, Mexico (summer 2012).

- History of Spanish (spring 2011, spring 2013).

- Spanish in the USA (fall 2012).

- Spanish Dialectology (fall 2010 & 2011).

- Spanish Phonetics (spring 2010, spring 2011 & spring 2012).

- Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (fall 2009, spring 2010, fall 2010 & fall 2012).

- Spanish Oral communication (fall 2009).

- Intermediate Spanish (summer 2011 & 2012).
 

Personal Hobbies

- Flight Simulator

- Languages

- Travelling


Education/Experience

Education/Degrees

- Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, University of Florida, 2009.

- Master of Arts in Foreign Languages, West Virginia University, 2004.

- Master in Lexicography, Spanish Royal Academy, 2002.

- Licenciatura en idioma inglés, University of El Salvador, 1997.

Awards/Honors

Significant grants:

- Faculty Research Grant, summer 2010 (Butler University), USA.

- Beca MAE-AECID, 2009 & 2010 (Ministry of Education, Spain).

- Grinter Fellowship, 2004-2007 (University of Florida), USA.

- Beca Fundación Carolina, 2002 (Spain).

Association Memberships (professional/educational)

- MLA

- ACTFL

Professional Experience

Peer reviewer for

- Wiley-Blackwell

- Hispania Journal