Faculty Activities & Awards

Funded Grants

Kania, Sonia (PI), and Grace Brannon (CoPI), “Revising the Certificate in Medical Humanities,” sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Total Amount: $34,999 (2021).

Choi, Jinny, Sonia Kania, and Fernando Melero-García, “Crossing Latinidades: Spanish as a Heritage Language Curriculum,” mini-grant sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Total Amount: $2,000 (2020).

Choi, Jinny, A. Raymond Elliott, and Sonia Kania, “Open-access textbook for SPAN 3316: Spanish Language Study,” UTA Cares Grant Program, sponsored by UTA Library, Total Amount: $10,000 (2020).

Austin, Amy, Jinny Choi, and Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez, “Open-access textbook for SPAN 3315: Spanish Composition,” UTA Cares Grant Program, sponsored by UTA Library, Total Amount: $8,000 (2020).

Price, Iya (PI), “STARTALK teaching grant for the summer school for teachers of critical languages (Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Russian) and Spanish,” sponsored by National Security Agency (NSA), Total Amount: $77,074 (2021). 

Price, Iya (PI), “STARTALK teaching grant for the critical languages (Russian, Arabic) summer school,” sponsored by National Security Agency (NSA), Total Amount: $89,980 (2020).

Price, Iya (PI), “STARTALK teaching grant for the critical languages (Russian) summer school,” sponsored by National Security Agency (NSA), Total Amount: $79,193 (2019).

Berthold, Barbara, “Goethe-Institut/American Association of Teachers of German (AATG): SPARK! Language Advocacy and Career Preparedness through After-School Programs.” Stipends for student teachers between $600 and $1,200 per person annually; reimbursement for the cost of materials needed to carry out the program (2022).

Choi, Jinny, COLA Endowment for Faculty Research Award, Amount: $3,000 (2023).

Harrison, Lonny, “Research Associate, Open Research Laboratory,” The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 6-10. Total amount: $2,150 (2023).

Harrison, Lonny, “Research Enhancement Program (REP),” UT Arlington. For archival research at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. Total amount: $8,798 (2023).

Iya Price (PI), and Lonny Harrison (CoPI), U.S.-Russia Partnership for Global Solutions, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Total Amount: $163,369.50 (2023).

Iya Price (PI), Barbara Berthold (CoPI), and Pete Smith (coPI), STARTALK teaching grant for the critical languages’ teacher year-round program (Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Persian), sponsored by the National Security Agency. Total Amount: $175,213 (2023).

Iya Price (PI), Lonny Harrison (CoPI), and Pete Smith (coPI), STARTALK teaching grant for the critical languages (Russian) year-round school, sponsored by the National Security Agency, Total Amount: $205,445 (2023).

Iya Price (PI), and Lonny Harrison (CoPI), Rebuilding a Russian-American Conversation (RARAC), sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Total Amount: $9,774 (2022).

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS, 2022-2023

Berthold, Barbara. William S. Ward Endowment Award, The University of Texas at Arlington (2023).

Kania, Sonia. President’s Award, The University of Texas at Arlington (2023).

Ruiz-Pérez, Ignacio. Óscar Oliva Poetry Prize, Instituto Tuxtleco de Cultura (2023).

Smith, Pete. Distinguished Teaching Professor, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, UTA. (2022).

Trigo, Natalia. “Art Omi Witting Fellowship,” sponsored by the Art Omi Foundation, NY (2022).

Trigo, Natalia. “Santa Maddalena Writing Fellowship,” sponsored by the Santa Maddalena Foundation, Italy (2023).

Faculty Research and Creative Activities, 2022-2023

Choi, Jinny. "Koreans in Paraguay: language, identity and (re)migration." International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 2022, no. 274, pp. 161-190.

Conway, Christopher. "Cómo leer un wéstern popular: Fitz Roy el pequeño cow-boy y el cuaderno de aventuras español de la Edad de Plata (1898-1936)." La expansión y revisión de un mito: el Oeste norteamericano en la literatura española, edited by David Río, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2023, pp. 73-96.

Conway, Christopher, Marek Paryz, and David Río. The Western in the Global Literary Imagination. Brill Publishing, 2022.

Conway, Christopher. “Magical Realism, Postcolonialism, and the Western in Téa Obreht's Inland." The Western in the Global Literary Imagination, edited by Christopher Conway, Marek Paryz, David Río.Brill Publishing, 2022, pp. 73-89.

Conway, Christopher, Marek Paryz, and David Río. “Mapping the Western in World Literature." The Western in the Global Literary Imagination, edited by Christopher Conway, Marek Paryz, and David Río.Brill Publishing, 2022, pp. 1-19.

De la Fuente Iglesias, Mónica, and Susana Pérez Castillejo. "L1 phonetic permeability and phonetic path towards a potential merger: The case of Galician mid vowels in bilingual production." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, vol. 12, no. 2, 2022, pp. 191-219.

Kania, Sonia, and Cynthia Kauffeld. “¿Diez o décima?: The Variable Use of Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers in Notarial Texts of the Colonial Period.” Despertar palabras, renacer historias: Estudios lingüísticos en homenaje a M.ª Nieves Sánchez González de Herrero, edited by Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar, Marta Gómez Martínez, Clara Grande López, Vicente Marcet Rodríguez, Leyre Martín Aizpuru, and Raquel Sánchez Romo, Universidad de Salamanca, 2023, pp. 167-178.

Kania, Sonia. “El español en América (IV): los Estados Unidos (Spanish in America (IV): The United States).” Lingüística histórica del español / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Historical Linguistics, edited by Steven N. Dworkin, Gloria Clavería Nadal, and Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta, Routledge, 2024, pp. 554-564.

Klee, Carol and Mónica de la Fuente Iglesias. "Dialectología y lenguas en contacto." The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology, edited by Francisco Moreno Fernández and Rocío Caravedo, Routledge, 2022, pp. 141-151.

Klee, Carol, Brandon Rogers, Mónica de la Fuente Iglesias, and James Ramsburg. "Intervocalic /s/ voicing in in the Andean Spanish of Southern Peru." Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas, edited by Mark Waltermire and Kathryn Bove, Routledge, 2022, pp. 93-116.

Iranzo, Vicente. "The Benefits of Pedagogical Translation on Learning the personal a in Spanish." Comunicación, vol. 31, no. 2, 2022, pp. 51-60.

Iranzo, Vicente. "The Effect of Task Modality in Heritage Bilingualism Research." Revista De Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, vol. 17, 2022, pp. 59–70.

Iranzo, Vicente. "Where’s the llengua valenciana? A Study of Language Ideologies in Textbooks in Spain." Cahiers Internationaux De Sociolinguisticque, vol. 19, 2021, pp. 83–89.

Rueda-Acedo, Alicia. “The Voices of Migrant Families: Testimonio, Service-Learning, and Community Translation.” Community Translation Research and Practice, edited by Katarzyna Stachowiak-Szymczak, Erika Gonzalez and Despina Amanatidou, Routlege, 2023, pp. 194-211.

Rueda-Acedo, Alicia. “Versión, subversión y parodia: propuestas posfeministas en ‘Malena una vida hervida’ de Almudena Grandes.” Revista Valenciana. Estudios de Filosofía y Letras, vol. 16, no. 31, 2023, pp. 79–103.

Ruiz-Pérez, Ignacio. El deseo es una lámpara que no alumbra. Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, 2022.

Ruiz-Pérez, Ignacio. Isles of Firm Ground. Translated by Mike Soto. Deep Vellum, 2022.

Semingson, P., and Smith, P. “Trends in digital mentoring for language teachers: Promising practices, caveats, and future directions.” New Directions for Teaching and Learning no. 175, pp. 41-50, 2023.

Trigo, Natalia. “La cuidadora/The caregiver.” Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women, edited by Sandra Guzmán, Harper Collins, 2023, pp. 386-389.

Trigo, Natalia. “El cómplice/The accomplice.” El Crimen: Antología Mexicana Bilingüe, edited by Johnathan Barbieri, Zopilote Rey, 2023, pp. 67-83.

Trigo, Natalia. “Agosto de estrellas/Field day.” (Dis) continuidades de la memoria. Antología de la ciencia ficción y la fantasía contemporánea de México, edited by Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado, Lumen, 2024.

Trigo, Natalia. “Habitación 12”, Hotel: Antología de escritores latinoamericanos en Estados Unidos, edited by Raquel Abend, Hypermedia, 2024.