Degrees

• Ph.D. Indiana University (1981); M.A. Indiana University (1975); A.B. Xavier University (1974)

Research Area

• Hispano-Romance Linguistics; Catalan Historical Linguistics and Philology

Current Research

• Catalan Toponymy; Catalan Historical Linguistics; Early Catalan Manuscripts (Joaquim Miret i Sans Collection, Biblioteca de Catalunya)

Current Courses

• Catalan Language; Spanish Phonology; Spanish Morphology and Syntax; Spanish Dialectology; History of the Spanish Language; The Languages of Spain; Ibero-Romance Philology (Graduate Seminar)

Current Positions

• Professor of Spanish and Portuguese (1994-)

Previous Positions

• Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University (1988-1994); Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University (1984-1988); Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of New Hampshire-Durham (1982-1984); Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Catalan, Indiana University-Bloomington (1981-1982)

Professional Societies

• President, North American Catalan Society; Corresponding Member, Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Philological Section); Corresponding Member, Institut Menorquí d’Estudis (Language and Literature Section)

Professional Honors

• Best Book Award (for Els menorquins de la Florida [1987]), Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, 1988; Serra d’Or Criticism Award 1983 (for Estudis sobre la fonologia del català preliterari [1982]) and 1988 (for Els menorquins de la Florida [1987]).
• Research Grants: American Philosophical Society (1984, 1989, 1998); Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities (1991, 1995); American Council of Learned Societies (1983).

Selected Publications

• Books: Estudis sobre la fonologia del català preliterari (Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat - Curial Edicions Catalanes, 1982); Els menorquins de la Florida: Història, llengua i cultura (Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 1987); The Minorcans of Florida: Their History, Language and Culture (New Smyrna Beach [FL], 1990); Estudis i documents de lingüística històrica catalana (Barcelona: Curial Edicions Catalanes, 1993); El ‘Llibre d’Or’ dels menorquins: El registre de San Pedro de Mosquitos i estudi de la població menorquina a la Florida en el segle XIX (Maó [Menorca]: Institut Menorquí d’Estudis - Universitat de les Illes Balears, 1998); Cafè i Quilombo: Els diaris de viatge de Joaquim Miret i Sans, 1900-1918 (Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2001).
• Articles: Over 225 articles published in scholarly journals and volumes, including some 150 included in Joan Coromines’ Onomasticon Cataloniae: Noms de Lloc i Noms de Persona de Totes les Terres de Llengua Catalana, 8 vols. (1989-1997).