Bio

I was born in Seville, Spain, and hold two master’s degrees in Hispanic Linguistics and TESOL from Indiana University Bloomington. After nine years of teaching at Indiana, I accepted a position at EBS University in Germany before returning to the United States, where I currently teach Spanish at NC State.

My teaching and research interests center on linguistics and foreign language pedagogy. At NC State, I teach courses such as Spanish Conversation and Spanish Phonetics, as well as FLS 335, a course designed for heritage speakers of Spanish who have grown up with the language in informal settings but have not studied it formally in school. I also serve as the faculty advisor for MASA (Mexican American Student Association) and as the Spanish program coordinator.

In 2022, with the support of a DELTA grant, I collaborated with colleagues to develop the Digital Library of Hispanic Voices, an open-access application created to provide broad access to the rich diversity of dialects within the Spanish-speaking world.

https://go.ncsu.edu/spanish-dialects

 

 

Responsibilities

Undergraduate Advisor

Office Hours

• Tue: 12:00 p.m. -1:15 p.m.
• Thu: 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
• Friday by appointment

Professional Activities and Research

Manuel Díaz-Campos and Inmaculada Navarro-Galisteo. Perceptual Categorization of Dialect Variation in Spanish. 2009. In J. Collentine, M. García, B. Lafford and M. Marí (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press, pp 179- 195.

September 2022: Completion of the Digital Library of Hispanic Dialects, funded by a DELTA grant for SPN333.

Area(s) of Expertise

Second Language Teaching, Sociolinguistics, Spanish Phonetics and Heritage Language Learning.