President Elect
Domnita Dumitrescu
California State University, Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA
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Summary of CV
Domnita Dumitrescu (PhD in Hispanic
linguistics from the University of Southern California) taught at California
State University, Los Angeles from 1987
to 2016. She is currently an emerita professor of Spanish linguistics. Before coming
to the US, she was a tenured professor of Spanish at the University of
Bucharest, Romania, and she also taught, as an invited lecturer, at UC Irvine
and USC. She was a Fulbright scholar in Argentina, in 1993, teaching at several
Argentinian institutions of higher education, including the Universities of
Buenos Aires, Tucuman, Del Comahue, and San Juan, and she lectured at several universities abroad,
including the University of Costa Rica, the University of Alicante, Spain and
the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Her areas of expertise are Spanish
pragmatics, language contact between English and Spanish in the US,
socio-pragmatic aspects of Spanish politeness, and comparative studies between Spanish and
Romanian, her native language. Her publications include several scholarly books,
the most recent of which are Aspects of
Spanish Pragmatics (Peter Lang, New
York 2011), El español en los Estados
Unidos: E Pluribus Unum? Enfoques
multidisciplinarios (co-edition with Gerardo Piña-Rosales, ANLE, New
York, 2013) and Hablando bien se entiende
la gente (Santillana 2014, in co-autorship). She has also
authored almost one hundred and fifty book chapters and scholarly articles in peer reviewed journal,
in her areas of expertise, as well as numerous literary translations and book
reviews. Her editorial work includes being first an Associate Editor, and then,
since 2011, the Book/Media Review Editor for Hispania, the scholarly journal of the AATSP. She is also on the editorial boards of Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (Routledge), Pragmática sociocultural/Sociocultural
Pragmatics (De Gruyter) and Language
and Dialogue (John Benjamins).She
participated in hundreds of professional conferences in the United
States, Canada, Europe and Latin America, reading papers, and/or organizing and chairing panels or whole
conferences. She is a member of the most prestigious scholarly organizations in
her field (often holding elected offices in these organizations), and received
numerous recognitions and awards, including the highest awards from Cal State
LA (Outstanding Professor and President’s Distinguished professor), the
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (Outstanding Teacher
of the Year in 2000) and the Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi (the Orders
of the Discoverers and of Don Quijote). Her name is included in several Who’s
Who reference works, and she is a Full Member of the North American Academy of
the Spanish language, and a corresponding member in the United States of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language in
Spain. She is currently a member of the inter-academic commission working on
the next (24th) edition of the Dictionary of the Spanish language
(DLE), in charge of the areas of US and Philippines. She is also actively
collaborating with the Cervantes Institute’s Observatory of the Spanish
Language and Hispanic Cultures in the US, at Harvard University, where she
recently co-directed the creation of an electronic bibliography of all the
linguistics publications on US Spanish.
Read Domnita Dumitrescu's Full CV (PDF)
Statement of Candidacy
I have been a member of the AATSP
for thirty one years, and I participated in almost all of the annual meetings
of the organization and most of the bi-annual meetings of the chapter to which
I belong. I presented 20 papers at the annual meetings, 22 at the chapter
meetings, and I organized numerous sessions and panels, including special joint
sessions of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) and a
Santillana featured presentation two years ago, in Panama.
I also published several articles and a
good number of book reviews in Hispania, and I served the organization in
numerous capacities, including as a member of the Executive Committee for 3
years, the MLA liaison for another 3 years, the Southern California chapter president for two years, member
of several award committees (including the
joint AATSP-Sigma Delta Pi award), and
an associate editor of Hispania for 6 years in charge of the section the
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World, which many times I confess I had to compose
all by myself. Currently, as many of you know, I am finishing my sixth year as
Book/media review editor of the journal, and I hope to continue, if my contract
is renewed for 3 more years.
As you can see, the AATSP has been a
very important part of my professional life for many years, and I learned a lot
from my participation in its meetings and my collaboration in its scholarly
activities. The AATSP is also very dear to me for a personal reason: it gave me
the first important professional recognition I got in this country, the 2000
Teacher of the Year Award, which is the last thing I shared with my mother, who
was hospitalized during the Puerto Rico conference and died two days after,
without regaining conscience after this conversation.
So, now that I retired after 50
years of teaching Spanish at the college level, and I am going to have a little
more time (although I have several post-retirement scholarly projects
underway),I want to give back to the organization to which I owe so much of my professional growth over
so many years. If I am elected, I will fight to make it stronger, to
increase its membership and to consolidate its prestige, and I will do whatever
it takes to have all Spanish and Portuguese professionals in this country
embrace the conviction that belonging to the AATSP is the best badge of honor
they can ever earn. Those who know me
know that I always keep my word… Thank you very much. Muchas gracias. Muito
obrigada.
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