Education

2004. Ph.D. in Linguistics, concentration in Discourse Analysis and Language and Gender.

1997. M.A. in Linguistics and Composition, concentration in Discourse Analysis.

1995. Licenciatura en Filología Anglo-Germánica (B.A. in English and German Philology).

English concentration with a minor in German Studies. Universidad de Valencia (Spain). Graduation with Honors.

Teaching and Research Interests

• Discourse Analysis: language and gender, language and migration, language and identity
• Sociolinguistics: language contact, computer-mediated communication.

Teaching and Mentoring at Miami University

Undergraduate language courses

• SPN 101. Beginner Spanish I.
• SPN 102. Beginner Spanish II
• SPN 202. Intermediate Spanish II
• SPN 311. Grammar Review and Introductory Composition
• SPN 317. Business Spanish
• SPN 342. Advanced Conversational Spanish

Undergraduate linguistics courses

• SPN 292. Language and the Latin American Diaspora
• SPN 312. Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
• SPN 382. Spanish Language and Hispanic Culture II
• SPN 440. Selected Topics in Language and Culture: Language and Identity
• Selected Topics in Language and Culture: Language and Migration
• SPN 490. Capstone: Spanish in the US

Dual level courses (Graduate and undergraduate)

• SPN 450/550. Topics in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics: Language and Gender
• SPN 481/581. Spanish Phonology and Syntax
• SPN 482/582. Spanish Dialectology

Graduate courses

• SPN 600. Seminar on Language, Gender and Sexuality
• SPN 670. Practicum in Teaching College Spanish
• SPN 689. Graduate Assistants Orientation Seminar

Independent studies

• SPN 477: Spanish in the US
• SPN 477: Language and Identity in Hispanic Communities
• SPN 680. Research Tutorial

Faculty mentor

• SPN 340U: Undergraduate Summer Scholars
• Humanities Center Research Apprenticeship: The discursive construction of the migration imaginary in Spain (1880-2015). Berenice Acevedo and Nicole Rosiello.

Graduate Thesis Director

• Emily Kaple: “El efecto de la enseñanza de la pronunciación en la comprensión auditiva en el español como segunda lengua”. Masters Thesis. December, 2007.
• Christine Norgard: “Los cambios de tema en conversación informal: una aproximación sociolinguística”. Masters Thesis. December, 2007.

Graduate Thesis Committee Member

• Krista Sigfried (2017)
• Alejandra Alaña (2010)
• Aneris Coria-Navia (2010)
• Sarah McElleney (2009)
• Sonia Quintana (2007)
• Megan Solon (2007)
• Kara Oksanen, Dept. of Speech Pathology and Audiology (2015)
• Lauren Hernandez, Dept. of Speech Pathology and Audiology (2015)
• Sara Saunders (2020)

Undergraduate Research Forum mentor

• Ayslin Wise (2014)
• Berenice Acevedo (2018)
• Madison Braun (2018)
• Alexis Treeger (2018)

Awards and Fellowships

• 2014. Recipient of $25,000 from the 2014 Interdisciplinary Research Fund, Miami University: “Empowering Community Members to Create a Shared Vision of Childhood Obesity Reduction in Head Start Preschoolers.” PI: Beth Miller, PhD, RD, LD, Assistant Professor; Co-I: Stephanie Nicely, EdD, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor; Co-I: Geralyn Timler, PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor; Co-I: Marisol del-Teso-Craviotto, PhD, Associate Professor
• 2013. Recipient of $800.00 for professional development. Miami University.
• 2008. Research grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities.
• 2004. CAS Summer Research Grant. Miami University.
• 2004. CAS Small Instructional Grant.

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming. Discourses of Emigration in Spain: A Historical Account of the Migration Imaginary in the Press. Routledge Series in Sociolinguistics. Routledge.
• 2022. del Teso Craviotto, M. (main author) and Acevedo, B. “Imaginario social del lema ‘refugiado’ en las redes sociales de España.” Discurso & Sociedad, 16(1): 88-114.
• 2020. “Interplay of discourse, cognition, and ideology in the semantic configuration of emigra* in the Spanish press”. Peer-reviewed, revision submitted Nov. 2019. SAGE Open.
• 2019. “Emigrants in contemporary Spanish press: a socio-cognitive approach.” Discourse, Context and Media. 29. doi:10.1016/J.DCM.2019.04.002
• 2019. Nicely, S., Miller, M.E., del-Teso-Craviotto, M. “Parents’ perceptions of 5210 nutrition messaging and child weight status.” Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
• 2017. Miller, M.E., Nicely, S., del-Teso-Craviotto, M., and Timler, G. “Understanding Cultural Factors Contributing to Obesity in Head Start Hispanic Preschoolers: Perceptions from One County Head Start.” NHSA Dialog, 20(1): 29-47.
• 2009. Testing book for the Elementary Spanish textbook Mosaicos, 5th ed. (Matilde O. Castells, Elizabeth Guzmán, Paloma Lapuerta, Judith Liskin-Gasparro). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
• 2009. “Racism and xenophobia in immigrants’ discourse: The case of Argentines in Spain.” Discourse and Society. 20(5): 571-592.
• 2008. “Inmigrantes argentinos en España: Discurso identitario en foros de Internet.” Discurso y Sociedad. 2(4): 689-715.
• 2008. “Gender and sexual identity authentication in language use: the case of chat rooms.” Discourse Studies. 10(2): 251-270.
• 2006. “Language and sexuality in Spanish and English dating chats.” Journal of Sociolinguistics. 10(4): 460-481.
• 2006. “Words that matter: Lexicon and gender ideologies in women’s magazines”. Journal of Pragmatics. 38(11): 2003-2021.
• 2005. “Virtually there: Creating physicality in dating chat rooms”. Texas Linguistic Forum 2004: Texas Linguistic Society Proceedings. 48: 73-82.
• 2002. “Help!: Generic structure and construction of gender in women’s magazines”. In J. Santaemilia, B. Gallardo and J. Sanmartín (eds.). Sexe i llenguatge: La Construcció Lingüística de les Identitats de Gènere. Quaderns de Filología . Vol. 7. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia. 115-129.

REPRINTS

• 2011 “Language and sexuality in Spanish and English dating chats.” Reprinted in J. Coates (ed.) Language and Gender: A Reader. Wiley-Blackwell.

Presentations

• 2021. Are Spaniards living abroad emigrants? The discursive configuration of the lemma *emigra in 3 the Spanish press. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 22-24.
• 2021. The Emigration Social Imaginary in the Contemporary Spanish Press. 2020-2021 John W. Altman Symposium: Migrations. April 15-16
• 2020. The discursive construction of contemporary Spanish emigrants in the press. Corpora and Discourse Conference. University of Sussex, June 17-19.
• 2018. Discursive (trans)formation of the migration imaginary in Spain. Global Studies Conference - The University of Granada, Granada, Spain 30-31 July.
• 2016. Emigrants in the Spanish press: Is language neutral? What the L? Series. Miami University. November 7, 2016.
• 2016. Discursive transformation of the migration social imaginary in contemporary Spain. Invited talk at the Collaborative Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics. Barcelona, Spain. September 19-23.
• 2016. Lexical significance of “emigrante” in Spanish newspaper discourse. Poster presentation at Hispanic Linguistic Symposium, Georgetown University. Washington DC. Oct. 7-9.
• 2015. The “Growing Healthy Kids Project”: Empowering Stakeholders to Create a Shared Vision of Childhood Obesity Reduction in Head Start Preschoolers. Society for Public Health Education’s (SOPHE) 66th Annual Meeting, Blazing a Trail for Health Education and Health Promotion, April 23-25th, 2015 Portland, Oregon.
• 2015. What’s language got to do with it?: The role of language and culture in an obesity prevention plan targeting Hispanics. 35th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. April 9-11, 2015, Cincinnati, OH.
• 2014. Creating a shared understanding of childhood obesity in Head Start Preschoolers. Human Rights and Social Justice Program. Co-presented with B. Miller, S. Nicely, and G. Timler. Miami University.
• 2010. Agency and victimization in immigrants’ discourse. Diaspora in the Hispanic and Luso- Brazilian world. An interdisciplinary conference. Miami University: Nov. 12-13
• 2010. When the Other is your Brother: Competing Discourses in the Identity Construction of Latin Americans in Spain. Passionate about Latin American Series. Miami University: Oct. 13
• 2010. Xeno-racism and the immigrant identity in Spain. 63th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY: April 15-17.
• 2009. Inmigrantes argentinos en España: Discurso identitario en foros de internet. Alfalito: Cuestiones lingüísticas en relación con la diáspora latinoamericana. New York: Sept. 24-25.
• 2008. One-day activities: Thinking outside the lesson box. Miami University Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Miami University. Oxford, OH. October 17.
• 2007. Femininity, sexuality, and lesbian identity in an Internet chat room. Presentation at the Linguistic Anthropology session of the American Association of Anthropology Conference, Washington DC. November 28-December 1.
• 2004. Discursive creation of gendered bodies in Internet chats. Talk presented at the third International Gender and Language Association (IGALA3). Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. June 5-7. 4
• 2004. Virtually there: Creating physicality in dating chat rooms. Talk presented at the 12th annual Symposium About Language and Society - Austin (SALSA). University of Texas. Austin, TX. April 16-18.

Other Professioinal Experience and Service

• 2011-present. Director of Miami University’s Study Abroad Program in Miami in Spain
• 2018. Internal Review Member of the Program Review of the Dept. of Speech Pathology and Audiology.
• 2014-present. Ohio Transfer Assurance Guide (TAG) panel member. Reviewer of courses from colleges and universities across the state for approval as TAG courses.
• 2018-2019. Member of Humanities Works 2.0. Miami University. Representative of the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese to advance career preparation among humanities students.
• 2015-2016. Coordinator of the University Academic Scholars Program for World Languages and Cultures
• 2014-present. Reviewer for the Journal of Multicultural Discourses and Discourse, Context and Media
• 2013-present. Member of the Editorial Board of SAGE Open
• 2012. Abstract reviewer for the IGALA 7 conference, held in Sao Leopoldo, Brasil.
• 2011. Reviewer for Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación / Culture, Language and Representation.
• 2011. Reviewer for SALALS (Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies).
• 2010. Reviewer for Language in the New Media: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Edited by K. Thurlow and K. Mroczek
• 2010. Invited participant in the Introductory Spanish Symposium, La Jolla, CA. Organized by McGraw-Hill.
• 2009-2010. Supervisor of the Basic Spanish Language Sequence at Miami University.
• 2009. Translator for Ohio's Evaluation & Assessment Center for Mathematics and Science Education
• 2009. Member of the Library Senate Committee, Miami University
• 2008. Book review of Sauntson, H., and Kyratzis, S. (2007). Language, Sexualities & Desires. Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Haundmills, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Appearing in: Discourse & Society (2008) 19(3): 409-411 and Discourse Studies / Discourse & Communication
• 2008-2010. Minor Adviser for the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Miami University. 
• 2008. Peer-reviewer for the Cincinnati Romance Review
• 2008. Language consultant for NBC/Telemundo.
• 2007. Reviewer of the introductory Spanish textbook Mosaicos (5th edition).
• 2007. Focus group participant for My Spanish Lab, a nationally hosted online learning and assessment system for elementary Spanish courses.
• 2006-present. Member of the Review Board of the multidisciplinary academic journal GLOSSA
• 2006. Book review of Meinhof, U. H., and Galasinski, D. (2005) The Language of Belonging. Haundmills, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Published in The Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=106074
• 2004-2006. Supervisor of the Basic Spanish Language Sequence at Miami University.
• 2004-2006. Member of the Graduate Studies Committee, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Miami University.

Professional Development

• 2018. WAC Workshop facilitated by Dr. Elizabeth Wardle How to Design and Scaffold Writing Assignments. Miami University
• 2018. Lilly Conference Workshop. Teamwork That Works: Why Team-Based Learning Is Important. Conducted by Jim Sibley
• 2017. "Immigration under the new Trump administration." Talk delivered by K. Robinson and B. Itayim, from Slowik and Robinson, LLC. February 17, 2017
• 2016. Web seminar: “Addressing The Unique Needs Of Undocumented Students: How Recent Policy Changes Affect College Access.” Presented by Paz Maya Olivérez, Ph.D. Associate Vice President, Student Success. California State University, Dominguez Hills. Organized by Innovative Educators. April 6, 2017.
• 2015. Participant in the two-day workshop “Linguistic-Function-Based Curriculum Design”. Dr. Cynthia Martin (University of Maryland). Miami University
• 2015. Accessible classroom. ELM Canvas Workshop I, ELM Canvas Workshop II
• 2015. Making Accessible Documents – Onsite Training. Miami University.
• 2015. Alternative Pedagogies. George Ironstrack and Luis Prádanos. CELTUA seminar, March 19.
• 2015. Exploring Alternative Economic Futures: Interdisciplinary Brown Bag meeting with Peter Victor (York University)
• 2010. Participant in the Global Faculty Learning and Inquiry Group, Miami University.
• 2009. A Discussion About the Evaluation of Teaching. Presentation by Theodore C. Wagenaar, Professor of Sociology at Miami University. Sponsored by CELTUA.
• 2008. Using Classroom Assessment Techniques to Enhance Active Learning. Presentation by Marsha Huber, Business, Accounting, & Economics, Otterbein College. Sponsored by CELT and the Top 25 Project
• 2007. Faculty report their teaching and learning with technology: Online assignments, wikis and blogs. Presentation by Andrea Han, Janet Hurn, and Ellenmarie Wahlrab. Sponsored by CELT.
• 2007. This space is left intentionally blank. Please fill it with something that improves upon emptiness. Presentation by Joanne Munroe. Sponsored by CELT.
• 2006. Helping your students develop critical thinking skills. Workshop organized by the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching.
• 2005. Teaching Technical Pedagogy: A “How To” to Help Others Learn How, Too!”. Workshop by Kevin M. Johnston, Michigan State University. Organized by CELT.
• 2005. Student Writing in Content Courses: A professional Seminar and Workshop for Miami Faculty. Organized by the Center for Writing Excellence.
• 2005. Writing in the College Years: The Stanford Study of Writing by Students in all Majors. Workshop by Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University.
• 2005. Inclusion and Learning Styles. Student Affairs and CELT Faculty Development Luncheon Series. 7
• 2005. Departmental Workshop on Rubrics and Assessment. Organized by the Center for Writing Excellence.
• 2004. Lilly Conference on College Teaching. Miami University.
• 2004. What colleges want in new faculty. Faculty Development Seminar offered by Cecilia Shore at Miami University.
• 2004. Grading, grading standards, and student learning. Faculty Development Seminar offered by Barbara E. Walvoord at Miami University.
• 2004. Helping graduate students write better proposals, theses, and dissertations. CELT Seminar by Michael P. Carter at Miami University.

Languages

Spanish: native language

English: near-native proficiency

• 1996. Certificado de Aptitud del Ciclo Superior en el Idioma Inglés. (Certificate of Proficiency in English at the advanced level). Escuela Oficial de Idiomas. Valencia.
• 1994. Certificate of Proficiency in English. University of Cambridge.

Catalan: near-native proficiency

• 1992. Certificat Oficial Administratiu de Coneixements de Valencià. Grau Mitjà. (Certificate of Intermediate Level). Generalitat Valenciana. Valencia.

German: intermediate level

• 1995. Zeugnis der Mittelstufe III. (Certificate of Intermediate Level III). Goethe Institut. Valencia.
• 1994. Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache. (Certificate of German as Foreign Language). Goethe Institut. Valencia.

Arabic: elementary level