Philip D. Rasico
Title: Professor of Spanish and Catalan
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Email: philip.d.rasico@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 301 Furman Hall
Phone: (615) 322-6859
Fax: (615) 343-7260
Education and Degrees
Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington (Hispanic Linguistics, 1981).
(Dissertation: Preliterary Catalan Historical Phonology, directed by Dr. Josep Roca-Pons).
M.A. Indiana University, Bloomington: (Spanish Linguistics, 1975).
A.B. Xavier University, Cincinnati: (Spanish, 1974).
Complementary Foreign Study:
Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia (1972-1973)
Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain (1975-1976)
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (1978-1979).
Research Areas
Catalan Historical Linguistics and Philology
Hispano-Romance Linguistics
Current Research
Catalan Historical Linguistics
Catalan Toponymy and Onomastics
Early Catalan Manuscripts
Current Courses Taught
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 Position
Professor of Spanish and Catalan, Vanderbilt University (1994-)
Previous Appointments
Associate Professor of Spanish, Vanderbilt University (1988-1994)
Assistant Professor of Spanish, 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
Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Corresponding Member, Philological Section)
Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona (Corresponding Member)
Institut Menorquí d’Estudis (Corresponding Member, Language and Literature Section)
Associació Internacional de Llengua I Literatura Catalanes (Vice-President)
Professional Honors and Grants
Serra d’Or Criticism Award, 1983, for Estudis sobre la fonologia del català preliterari (1982).
Best Book Award (Premi Millor Obra de Recerca, 1988, Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, for Els menorquins de la Florida (1987).
Serra d’Or Criticism Award 1988 (for .
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).
University Research Council, Vanderbilt University (1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1995).
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). A revised and author-translated version of Els menorquins de la Florida: Història, llengua i cultura (1987).
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 XVIII (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).
El català antic (Girona: Universitat de Girona, 2006).
Articles:
Approximately 250 articles published in scholarly journals and volumes, including 150 article-entries in Joan Coromines’ Onomasticon Cataloniae: Noms de Lloc i Noms de Persona de Totes les Terres de Llengua Catalana, 8 vols. (1989-1997).
