Iván Ortega-Santos
Professor of Spanish; Graduate Coordinator
Phone
Email
rtgsntos@memphis.edu
Fax
901.678.5338
Office
Jones Hall 201H
Office Hours
Email for Hours
Education
B.A. (1999), Universidad de Deusto
M.A. (2003), University of Arizona
Ph.D. (2008), University of Maryland at College Park
About Dr. Ortega-Santos
Dr. Iván Ortega-Santos is Professor in the Department of World Languages and Literatures
and Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of
Memphis. He completed his doctoral work in Linguistics at the University of Maryland,
College Park, and holds an M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Arizona.
He is associate editor of the Hispanic Linguistics journal Borealis as well as board
member of the local non-profit Indigenous Pastoral Relief.
Teaching: He teaches courses in Linguistics, Translation and Interpretation and Legal
Interpreting as well as Spanish, with an emphasis on breaking down language barriers
in the city of Memphis while providing meaningful learning opportunities for students.
His community engagement program, Comunidad901, designed to support local Hispanic-serving
organizations, earned him a HARC Angel Award from the Highland Area Renewal Corporation,
Inc. (HARC), Memphis.
Research: His areas of research include Theoretical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics,
Dialectology, Translation and Interpretation, and Gamification for the dissemination
of academic research. In particular, he studies (i.) data collection standards, crowdsourcing
and citizen science in linguistic theory; (ii.) dialectal variation in Spanish; (iii.)
educational interpreting, and (iv.) US Spanish (language rights, history and prejudices).
His books Focus-related Operations at the Right Edge in Spanish: Subjects and Ellipsis
and Data Representativity and Granularity in Spanish Syntax have been published by
John Benjamins and Routledge, respectively. He is a twice recipient of the UofM Summer
Research Stimulus Grant and a collaborator in the grant projects ‘Estructura informativa
en su interfaz sintáctico-semántica: Comparación de lenguas románicas y germánicas
(INFOSTARS),’ PI: Ángel Luis Jiménez Fernández (Universidad de Sevilla), PCG2018-093774-B100,
and ‘Microparameters and Networks in Romance Variation (MiNeRVa),” PI’s: Ángel Gallego
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona),
PID2021-123617NB-C41, funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades,
Spain.
You can visit his personal website here: https://blogs.memphis.edu/rtgsntos/