Curriculum Vitae MERCEDES NIÑO-MURCIA 1. Higher Education ...

Business Address: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Phone: (319) 335-1085
E-mail: m-nino-murcia@uiowa.edu
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Curriculum Vitae
MERCEDES NIÑO-MURCIA
1. Higher Education
1988 Ph.D., Romance Linguistics, University of Michigan
1983 M.A., Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics), Rice University
1973 B.A., Education and Social Sciences, Universidad Mariana, Colombia
2. Professional and Academic Positions
2009- Chair, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Iowa
2008-2009 Associate Chair, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Iowa
2002-2004 Co-director of the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), University of Iowa
2001-2002 Director of the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), University of Iowa
2000-2001 Director of Graduate Studies, University of Iowa
1997–1999 Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Iowa
1997- Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of Iowa
1990-1997 Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, University of Iowa
1988-1990 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dep. of Romance Languages, Hamilton College
1989-1990 Coordinator of Romance Language Teaching Assistants, Hamilton College
TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
a. Graduate and Undergraduate courses:
Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics.
b. International Education:
Historical Linguistics - OKMA, Linguistic Training Center for the Mayas, Antigua,
Guatemala (1997)
Professional Development for Guarani Teachers, Sociolinguistic Workshops,
Universidad Nacional, Itapua, and CIPRODIGUA, Asunción, Paraguay (2004)
Discourse Analysis: Language and Nation, Seminar, Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Perú, Lima, Peru (2009)
Discourse Analysis: The Construction of Alterity, Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona, Spain (2010)
c. Other Contributions to Instructional Programs

Consulting work on a bilingual education project
Des Moines Public Schools, Hispanic Educational Resources (Dec. 2005)
College of Business Henry B.Tippie
Business International Education Grant for MBA students: Linguistic and Cultural
training (1997-2000)
Video-transmitted course:
Business Spanish (University of Iowa and Montana State University) (1999)
Continuing Education:
Telecourse: Americas (Teachers of the State of Iowa) (1993)
SCHOLARSHIP
1. Publications
a) Refereed
Books:
2008 Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the Crossroads with other Languages, (coedited
with Jason Rothman). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Paperback
Edition 2009)
2004 Escritura y Sociedad: Nuevas perspectivas teóricas y etnográficas, (co-edited with
Virginia Zavala and Patricia Ames). Lima: Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias
2005 Sociales en el Perú.
---- The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village‟s Way with Writing, (co-authored with Frank
Salomon). In press, Duke University Press.
Book Chapters and Journal Articles:
Forthcoming “Variation and Identity in the Americas,” In M. Díaz-Campos, (ed.), The
Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics. Malden, MA.: Blackwell.
2009 “Prácticas letradas exuberantes en la periferia de la República de las Letras,” In J.
Kalman & B. Street, (eds.), Lectura, escritura y matemáticas como prácticas
sociales: Diálogos desde los Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Cultura Escrita,
Mexico D.F.: Siglo XXI Editores.
2009 “„Cada uno en su sitio‟: Configuración de imagen en el Congreso en el Perú,"
Actas el Congreso: "(Des)cortesía y violencia verbal en español", University of Sevilla,
Spain
2009 “The Roots and the Growth of Women‟s Writing in a Peruvian Village,” In
Kaushik Basu, Bryan Maddox and Anna Robinson-Pant, (eds.), Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Literacy and Development, 145-164. London: Routledge.
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2008 “Spanish-contact Bilingualism and Identity,” co-authored with Jason Rothman. In
Niño-Murcia, M. & Rothman, J. (eds.), Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the
Crossroads with other Languages, 11-32. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins.
2008 “Multilingualism and Identity: All in the Family,” co-authored with Jason
Rothman. In Niño-Murcia, M. & Rothman, J. (eds.), Bilingualism and Identity:
Spanish at the Crossroads with other Languages, 301-329.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2008 “Spanish as a World Language: The interplay of globalized localization and localized
globalization,” co-authored with Juan Carlos Godenzzi and Jason Rothman. International
Multilingual Research Journal, 2, 1-2: 48-66.
2004 “Papelito manda” Literacidad vernacular en una comunidad andina de Huarochirí.
In Escritura y Sociedad: Nuevas perspectivas teóricas y etnográficas, (co-edited
with Virginia Zavala and Patricia Ames), 346-365. Lima: IEP Instituto de
Estudios Peruanos & Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Fondo Editorial
2003 “English is like a dollar”: Hard currency ideology and the status of English in
Peru,” World Englishes Special Issue, Eds. Margie Berns and Patricia Friedrich:
English in South America Vol. 22, 2:123-143
2001 “Late-stage Standardization and Language Ideology in the Colombian Press
before Independence,” International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL),
Ed. Margarita Hidalgo: Between Koineization and Standardization: New World
Spanish Revisited 149:119-144
1997 "Ideología lingüística hispanoamericana en el siglo XIX: Chile (1840-1880),"
Hispanic Linguistics 9,1:100-142
1997 "Linguistic Purism in Cuzco, Peru: A Historical Perspective," Language Problems
and Language Planning 21, 2: 134-161
1995 "Codificación del Quechua en el Perú y las lenguas Mayas de Guatemala,"
Boletín Internacional de Lenguas y Culturas Amerindias (BILCA). Instituto
Valenciano de Lenguas y Culturas Amerindias (Universitat de València, Spain):
1:3-11
1995 "Política del purismo lingüístico en Cuzco," Lexis XIX, 2:251-288
1995 "Impositive Speech Acts in Northern Andean Spanish: A Pragmatic Description"
(coauthored with Isabel Bustamante), Hispania 78:885-897
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1995 "The Gerund in the Spanish of the North Andean Region,” In Spanish in Four
Continents: Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism. Ed. Carmen
Silva-Corvalán. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press. p. 83-100
1992 "El futuro sintético en el español norandino: Caso de mandato atenuado,"
Hispania 75:705-713
1992 "Using the computer to develop writing skills in Spanish for business," In
Languages and Cultures for Business and the Professions. Ed. G.M. Voght and R.
Schaub. Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University. p. 213-220
1991 "La política lingüística de la corona en América," In Impacto y futuro de la
civilización española en el Nuevo Mundo. Ed. Gloria Castresana - Waid. Madrid:
Ediciones Ciruela S.A. p. 119-125
b) Non-refereed
Periodistic Reports:
2002 “Paper Rules”: Vernacular Literacy in an Andean Village. In International Accents
Spring/Summer 2.2
http//www.uiowa.edu/~intl/EVTS/Publication/IntlAccents_sprg02.pdf
(scroll down to pp.6-7)
2002 Paraguay: Defining a Nation in Two Languages. In International Accents Fall/Winter
4.1
http://www.uiowa.edu/~intl/EVTS/Publication/IntlAccents_fall03.pdf
(scroll down to pp.4 & 16)
2. Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations:
a. Internacional
2010 “La ciudad letrada y la literacidad extramuros: el poder de la escritura entre campesinos
peruanos,” Seminario sobre Literacitat Critica, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona,
Spain
2009 “Grafismos abanderados: Proyectos andinos de escritura en un marco
comparativo,” Seminario de Estudios Andinos, Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Perú, Lima, Peru
2007 “„Cada uno en su sitio‟: Configuración de imagen en el Congreso en el Perú,"
Conference on "(Des)cortesía y violencia verbal en español", Sevile, Spain
2008 “Prácticas letradas en la periferia de la República de las Letras,” Primer Seminario de
Investigación sobre Alfabetización y Cultura Escrita (SIACE), Mexico
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2007 “Gender and the Ethnography of Writing in Peru,” Latin American Studies
Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada
2006 Presentation at the International Seminar: Literacy, Identity, and Social Change
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2003 “Procesos de estandarización de las lenguas indígenas americanas: el Quechua en
el Perú y los Idiomas Mayas en Guatemala,” Fulbright-Hays Seminar in Paraguay
2000 “Titubeos y decisiones en la escritura de una comunidad rural peruana,” XXXIII
Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Universidad de
Salamanca, Spain
1998 “Logros y escollos en la educación bilingüe en el Ecuador,” V Encuentro
Internacional de Lingüística, Universidad de Sonora, México
b) National
2010 “Letras prohibidas y escritores estigmatizados en el mundo letrado,” Center for Latin
American Studies, University of Pittsburg
2010 “Vernacular literacy and school literacy: Two unconnected worlds,” Invited to
participate in a symposium on “Current Themes in Language, Literacy and Numeracy in
Latin America” at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver,
Colorado
2008 "A Web of Unseen Writing: The Literate Life of an Andean Village," at the Latin
American Studies Program, Hamilton College, New York
2007 “Language Socialization Influences on Dominance and Attrition in
Multilingualism,” Colloquium co-organizer (with Carol Severino of the
Department of Rhetoric), American Association for Applied (AAAL), Costa
Mesa, California
2007 “Three languages, One family: Language socialization for trilingual children,”
(with Jason Rothman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese), American
Association for Applied (AAAL), Costa Mesa, California
2007 “Gender and the Ethnography of Writing in Peru,” Latin American Studies
Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada
2004 “The Alphabet on the Andean Heights: Its Fortunes in Two Villages,” at the
Anthropology Department, Grinnell College, Iowa
2003 “Guarani as a national project in Paraguay,” Invited participant in special panel on
language projects, Conference on Indigenous Languages on Latin America
(CILLA), University of Texas at Austin
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2002 “Guaraní: El espíritu y la letra de la escolarización de una lengua indígena,”
Conference on Profound and Diverse Paraguay, Ohio University
2001 “Texto y contexto de la escritura en una aldea andina,” Symposium on Spanish in
the Americas, University of Iowa
1996 "Spaces of Identity: A Case for Indigenous Language Academies in Ecuador,
Peru, and Guatemala," Conference on Language Communities, States, and Global
Culture: The Discourse of the Identity in the Americas, University of Iowa
1995 "Language purity and exclusion in Cuzco, Peru," Andean Linguistics Workshop
at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of New Mexico
1995 "La conciencia lingüística criolla: Bello y el gerundio de posterioridad,"
Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University
Conference, Panel Organizer or Co-organizer:
2007 Panel Session: “Qualitative and Situated Approaches to Literacy: (Mis-)
encounters with Program Development Policy,” Latin American Studies
Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada
2000 Symposium on Spanish in the Americas, University of Iowa (with Daniel
Balderston and Laura Gutiérrez of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
1996 Language Communities, States, and Global Culture: The Discourse of the Identity
in the Americas, University of Iowa (with Nora England and Laura Graham of the
Department of Anthropology)
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