The Department of Spanish and Portuguese holds two symposia each year: the Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium and the Annual Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL). Below you will find more information about the current edition of each event.
We are excited to welcome Dr. Terrell A. Morgan and Dr. Whitney Chappell as keynote speakers.
Dr. Terrell A. Morgan (The Ohio State University) is a Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at The Ohio State University. He is a phonologist and dialectologist concerned with documenting linguistic diversity and finding new ways to put students, teachers, and fellow researchers in touch with the intimate details of the sounds and structures of Spanish. He has taught and done field work in Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay, as well as in Hispanic communities in the United States. His Spanish phonetics textbook, Sonidos en contexto: Una introducción a la fonética del español con especial referencia a la vida real, was published in 2010 by Yale University Press. Prof. Morgan is the founder and Director of the Summer Seminars Abroad for Spanish Teachers (SSAST), a program which has introduced K-16 educators to both Hispanic linguistics and less-commonly taught languages in immersion contexts on three continents since 1991. Prof. Morgan is also the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Whitney Chappell (University of Texas at San Antonio) is an Associate Professor of Hispanic linguistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a 2019-2020 Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad de Murcia. She earned her doctorate from The Ohio State University in 2013, and her research focuses on sociophonetic variation in the Spanish-speaking world, or how Spanish speakers construct social meaning through their use of contextualized linguistic variants. Her most recent projects focus on the sociophonetic perception of innovative variants among monolingual, bilingual, and heritage Spanish speakers, and her work has been published in prestigious venues like Language Variation and Change, Hispania, Heritage Language Journal, Estudios de fonética experimental, and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, among many others. Her edited volume, Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception, called “A must-read book for students and scholars of language, variation, and change” by Manuel Díaz-Campos, is currently in press with John Benjamins Publishing Company.