XXIV
APRIL 21st.2023
Texas Tech University
ANNUAL
CÉFIRO CONFERENCE
IN LATIN AMERICAN AND IBERIAN LANGUAGES, LITERATURE AND CULTURES
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Dr. Whitney Chappel
Dr. Whitney Chappell’s research focuses on sociophonetic variation in the Spanish-speaking world, or how Spanish speakers construct social meaning through their use of contextualized linguistic variants.
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Her teaching interests include Folklore, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Contemporary Literary Theory, Border Studies, Chicano/a and Latina/o Literatures.
Her most recent projects focus
on the sociophonetic perception of nonstandard variants among monolingual and bilingual Spanish speakers, and her work has been published in prestigious venues like Language Variation and Change, The Journal of Voice, Hispania, Heritage Language Journal, Estudios de fonética experimental, and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, among many others.
Dr. Chappell’s new edited volume, Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception,
has been called “A must-read book for students and scholars of language, variation, and change” by Dr. Manuel Díaz-Campos at Indiana University.
At UTSA Dr. Chappell teaches classes on language and gender, bilingualism, sociolinguistics, Spanish phonetics and phonology, introduction to Spanish linguistics, and language and identity, among many others.
Her teaching philosophy is grounded in engaged, active student learning where the classroom is a fun, dynamic, and student-centered environment.
In addition to sparking her students' interest in linguistics, Dr. Chappell’s goal is to help students become more inquisitive individuals who are capable of thinking critically inside and outside of the classroom.
Degrees
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Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus (2013)
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M.A., Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (2009)
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B.A., The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2006)
Dr. Cantú has published articles on a number of academic subjects as well as poetry and fiction.
Her publications on border literature, the teaching of English, quinceañera celebrations and the matachines, a religious dance tradition have earned her an international reputation as a scholar and folklorist. She has co-edited and edited over 20 books.
She edits the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Culture and Traditions book series at The Texas A&M University Press and the Literatures of the Americas at Palgrave/Macmillan.
Her award-winning Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera chronicles her childhood experiences on the border.
Her most recent publications include Cabañuelas, a novel and Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life, and Labor.
In 2020 she published two co-edited anthologies meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction and Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldua: Pedagogy and Practice for our Classrooms and Communities.