Marta Ramírez Martínez

Curriculum Vitae
Fall 2019

Personal Information:

Name: Marta Ramírez Martínez

Address:
Luther Hall 303, 100 Wartburg Blvd.
Department of English and Modern Languages
Wartburg College; Waverly, IA 50677

Contact Information:
m.ramirezmartinez@wartburg.edu
+1 (520) 891 2897
http://martaramirezmartinez.weebly.com/

Education:
PhD in Hispanic Linguistics
University of Arizona, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2013-2017
Graduation Date: May 2017
GPA: 4.0
Dissertation: “Velar palatalization in Majorca: Catalan Spanish, and
bilingualism.” Dissertation Defense: 6th December 2016.
Committee: Miquel Simonet (chair), Ana Carvalho, Sonia Colina, Andrew
Wedel
Fields of Specialization: Bilingualism, Phonetics and Phonology,
Sociolinguistics, Heritage Language Pedagogy

MA in Hispanic Linguistics
University of Arizona, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2010-2012
Graduation Date: December 2012
GPA: 4.0
Thesis: “Variación en una situación de contacto lingüístico entre el español y el
catalán”
Committee: Miquel Simonet (chair), Ana Carvalho, Sonia Colina

BA (Licenciatura) in English Philology

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Graduation Date: June 2009
Areas of Teaching Interest:

Spanish language all levels (including Spanish for heritage learners), Linguistics courses at all
levels (General Linguistics), Online Courses, Sociolinguistics, Phonology, Phonetics,
Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Second and Heritage Language Acquisition and Pedagogy.

Teaching Experience:

Wartburg College (Waverly, IA)

Assistant Professor of Spanish August 2019-Present
Supervisor Information:
Zak Montgomery
Department of English and Modern Languages, Wartburg College
100 Wartburg Blvd., Waverly, IA 50677
Luther Hall 321
zak.montgomery@wartburg.edu, 319-352-8435

Job Description:
Teaching lower- and upper-division courses for the Department of English
and Modern Languages, and conducting other activities, such as
participating in committees, directing study-abroad programs, performing
research or advising.

• Basic Language Program

o Spanish 204: Third-Semester Spanish (2 sections)
o Spanish 206: Fourth-Semester Spanish (2 sections)
o Spanish 260: Hispanic Culture I (1 section)
o Spanish 261: Intensive Conversation (1 section)

• Upper-division courses
o Spanish 320: Spanish Language and Composition (1 section)
o Spanish 326: Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation (1 section)

College of Charleston (Charleston, SC)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish August 2017-Present
Supervisor Information:
Mark Del Mastro
Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston
66 George St, Charleston, SC 29424
delmastromp@cofc.edu, 843-953-6748

Job Description:
Teaching lower- and upper-division courses for the Hispanic Studies
Department and performing other service-related activities, such as
participating in committees or advising study abroad students.
 • Basic Language Program
o Spanish 202: Intermediate Spanish (7 sections)
o Spanish 275: Intermediate Grammar Review (1 section)

• Upper-division courses
o Spanish 344: Advanced Grammar and Lexicon (3 sections)
o Spanish 313: Spanish Composition (1 section)

• Linguistics Minor Program

o Lin 101: Introduction to Language (in English) (1 section)
o Spanish 381: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics (3 sections)

• Online Courses
o Spanish 202: Intermediate Spanish (1 section)

University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)

Graduate Associate in Teaching 2010-2017
Supervisor Information:
Malcolm Compitello
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
543 Modern Languages Bldg., PO Box 210067
Tucson, AZ 85721
compitel@email.arizona.edu, 520-621-7347

Job Description:
Teaching courses for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and
conducting other academic non-teaching activities, such as participating in
committees, directing study-abroad programs, performing research.

• Basic Language Program

o Spanish 202: Fourth-Semester Spanish (2 sections)
o Spanish 201: Third-Semester Spanish (1 section)
o Spanish 102: Second-Semester Spanish (2 sections)
o Spanish 101: First-Semester Spanish (1 section)

• Upper-division courses
o Spanish 459: Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism (1 section)
o Spanish 340: Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (2 sections)
o Spanish 325: Intermediate Grammar and Writing (1 section)

• Heritage Language Program

o Spanish 343: Spanish Phonetics for Heritage Language Learners (6
sections)
o Spanish 333: Advanced Spanish Writing for Heritage Language
Learners (3 sections)

• Online Courses for UA Online (University of Arizona Online Program)

o Spanish 201: Third-Semester Spanish (1 section)
o Spanish 102: Second-Semester Spanish (2 sections)
Research Assistantship:

University of Arizona
Assistant to Prof. Ana Carvalho & Dr. Malcah Yaeger-Dror. 2015-2016
Assisted in the “Intergenerational Telephone Calls: Linguistic & Communicative
Parameters” project in (1) participant recruitment (insuring IRB constraints),
participant organization, data collection and (2) transcription organization and
supervision

Administrative Experience:

Directorship of Study Abroad:

Intercultura Language Schools, Heredia, Costa Rica 2020
Co-Director of the summer Study Abroad program for Wartburg College

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile 2011

Director of a semester-long Study Abroad program for the University of Arizona

Duties:
• Serve as liaison and coordinate communication between US and receiving
institutions
• Organize and plan excursions
• Administrate all paperwork and finances
• Oversee the safety of all students

Assistantship of Study Abroad:

Universidad Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica 2013
Assistant to the Director of the summer Study Abroad program

Graduate Symposium Organizing Committee Member 2011-2013

23nd and 22nd Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature,
Language and Culture. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ.

Professional Service and Outreach:

Editorial Experience
Peer Review of a doctoral thesis manuscript 2019
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (Guest Editor) 2018
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (Guest Editor) 2015
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 2011

Member of the Linguistic Studies Steering Committee 2017-2019

Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston

Member of the Hispanic Studies Distance Education Committee 2018-2019

Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston
 Advisor for Study Abroad 2018-2019
Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston

Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant Judge 2015

University of Arizona

Catalan Transcriber for a project directed by Professor Fabiano-Smith 2013

Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona

Coordinator of the Spanish Club 2012

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona

Interviewer for the Corpus del Español en el Sur de Arizona (CESA) 2010
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona

Volunteer at the Club Bilingüe 2010-2016

Spanish Heritage Language Program
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona

Think Tank Tutoring 2010-2016

Tutoring Spanish for all-level University of Arizona students

Study Abroad Recruitment

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona 2010-2016

Member of the Arizona Applied Phonetics Laboratory (AAPL) 2010-2016

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona

Publications:

Bessett, Ryan M., Joseph V. Casillas, and Marta Ramírez Martínez. 2017. “Language Choice and
Accommodation: Casual Encounters in San Ysidro and Nogales.” Spanish in Context.

Ramírez, Marta and Miquel Simonet. 2017. “Language Dominance and the Perception of the
Majorcan Catalan /ʎ/−/ʒ/ contrast: Asymmetrical phonological representations.”
International Journal of Bilingualism.

Conference Presentations:

Ramírez Martínez, Marta. 2018. “Velar palatalization and non-dominant speech of Catalan-
Spanish bilinguals: Evidence of phonetic transfer?” Paper presented at the Hispanic
Linguistics Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, October 25-27.

Ramírez Martínez, Marta, and Miquel Simonet. 2017. “The phonologization of velar
palatalization: The case of Majorcan Catalan.” Paper presented at the Linguistics
Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Delaware, April 20-23.
Ramírez Martínez, Marta. 2016. “A case of phonologization in Catalan.” Paper presented at the
Arizona Linguistics Circle, University of Arizona, AZ, December 2-4.

Carvalho, Ana M., Marta Ramírez Martínez, Miriam Rodríguez, Eric Wilbanks, and Malcah
Yaeger-Drör. 2016. “Call Grandma! Collecting and analyzing intergenerational telephone
conversations.” Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 45, Simon Fraser
University, Vancouver, Canada, November 3-6.

Ramírez Martínez, Marta, and Joseph Casillas. 2016. “La producción de la vibrante múltiple en
los estudiantes de español como lengua heredada y en los estudiantes de español como
lengua extranjera.” Poster presented at the 8th International Workshop on Spanish
Sociolinguistics, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, April 13-16.

Ramírez Martínez, Marta, and Miquel Simonet. 2015. “The Catalan /ʎ/-/ʒ/ Contrast:
Neutralization and Automatic Imitation.” Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics
Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, September 24-27.

Bessett, Ryan M., and Marta Ramírez Martínez. 2014. “Variación en las construcciones con si
en el español sonorense monolingüe y bilingüe.” Poster presented at the XIII Encuentro
Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste de México, Universidad de Sonora,
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, November 12-15.

Bessett, Ryan M., Joseph V. Casillas, and Marta Ramírez Martínez. 2014. “Language Choice and
Accommodation: Casual Encounters in San Ysidro and Nogales.” Paper presented at the
7th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Madison, WI, April 3-5.

Ramírez Martínez, Marta, and Miquel Simonet. 2013. “The Merger of Majorcan Catalan /ʎ/ and
/ʒ/.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Sound Change Actuation, University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 17-18.

Ramírez Martínez, Marta. 2012. “Actitudes y percepción hacia dialectos del español y del
catalán en Mallorca, España.” Poster presented at the 6th International Workshop on
Spanish Sociolinguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 12-14.

Ramírez Martínez, Marta. 2011. “La asignación de género en los préstamos ingleses en el sur
de Arizona.” Paper presented at the 21st Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-
Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,
February 17-19.

Digital Humanities:

Bessett, R., and Marta Ramírez Martínez. 2014. “Arizona/Sonora Border: An Insight into the
Crossing Reality” Visual documentary presented at the The School of Anthropology
Linguistic Field Techniques and Multimedia Ethnography Symposium. December 11.
Scholarships, Grants and Fellowships:

Conference and Professional Development Funding 2018

College of Charleston
• Awarded $800 USD

Faculty Distance Education Readiness Course 2018

College of Charleston
• Awarded $500 USD upon completion March 22nd
• Awarded $1000 USD upon first-time creation and delivery of DE course

Online Pedagogy Training Grant 2016

Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Arizona
• Awarded $500 USD

Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant 2015

University of Arizona
• Awarded $500 USD

Graduate Travel Grant 2014, 2015

Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Arizona
• Awarded $300 + USD $500 USD

Graduate College Fellowship 2013, 2013, 2015

College of Humanities, University of Arizona
• Awarded $1000 USD + $1000 USD + $300 USD

Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship 2010

University of Arizona
• Awarded $1500 USD

Erasmus Scholarship (Queen Mary, University of London) 2008

Government and University of the Balearic Islands
• Awarded $4500 USD

Study Abroad Scholarship (University of Texas at Austin) 2007

Government and University of the Balearic Islands
• Awarded $4500 USD

Professional Memberships:
MLA – Modern Language Association

Language Education and Certification:

Spanish: Native language
Catalan: Native language
English: Near-native proficiency
Italian: Reading comprehension
French: Reading comprehension
German: Beginner level
 Academic Preparation at the University of Arizona

Pedagogy
Online Language Teaching Theory and Methodology (workshop)
Foreign Language Teaching Theory and Methodology
Heritage Language Teaching Theory and Methodology

Phonetics
Spanish Phonetics I: Perception and Production
Spanish Phonetics II: Production
Spanish Phonetics III: Production

Psycholinguistics
Spanish Psycholinguistics (Perception)
The Psychology of Language

Phonology
Spanish Phonology I
Spanish Phonology II
Spanish Phonology III

Sociolinguistics
Variation in Spanish
Spanish in Contact with other Languages
A Variationist Perspective on Language Contact
Language in the Mexican-American Experience

Syntax
Introduction to Syntactic Theory I
Introduction to Syntactic Theory II: The Minimalist Program
Spanish Syntax III: Spanish Word Order and Information Structure

Other Linguistics Courses

Statistical Analysis for Linguists
Introduction to Translation Studies
Origins of Language and the Theory of Evolution
Anthropological Linguistic Field Techniques: Multimedia Ethnography
References:

Dr. Miquel Simonet

521 Modern Languages
P.O. Box 210067
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 621 3123
Fax: (520) 621 6104
simonet@email.arizona.edu

Dr. Ana Maria Carvalho

544 Modern Languages
P.O. Box 210067
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 621 3639
Fax: (520) 621 6104
anac@email.arizona.edu

Dr. Mark del Mastro

College of Charleston
66 George St.
Charleston, SC 29424
delmastromp@cofc.edu
Phone: (843) 953 6748

Dr. Sonia Colina

554 Modern Languages
P.O. Box 210067
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 621 3798
Fax: (520) 621 6104
scolina@email.arizona.edu

Dr. Sara Beaudrie

854 Cady Mall
School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC)
Mailcode 0202
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85281
Phone: (480) 965 1110
sara.beaudrie@asu.edu