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Terrence Mannetter, Professor of Spanish
Terrence Mannetter is currently Professor of Spanish at
the Modern Language Department at UW-River Falls. He teaches courses in
undergraduate Spanish language, literature, and phonetics, and serves
as coordinator of a the first-year Spanish language program that utilizes
the Natural Approach to second language learning. He also serves as the UWRF representative
of the OPID UW-System institute. Dr. Mannetter serves as Director of the Winter
Interim in Mexico program. This Academic Year (2009-2010) he is teaching
courses in Beginning and Advanced Spanish language as well as Peninsular Spanish
Literature and Phonetics. Dr. Mannetter was awarded the Outstanding
Faculty Member of the Year award in the College of Arts and Sciences
in 2004, and was named the 2005-2006 Wisconsin Teaching Scholar representative
from UW-River Falls.
Although Dr. Mannetter is a Wisconsin native, he graduated from
high school in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds a B. A. with a double major in
Philosophy and Spanish from UW-Stevens Point, and an M. A. and Ph.D. in
Spanish from UW-Madison. His fields of specialization are Hispanic Philology,
Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature, Peninsular Dialectology, Modern
Spanish Linguistics, and Portuguese Literature and Linguistics. He also
studied Classical Latin and Classical Arabic. His dissertation was the
production of a new computer-assisted edition of the Leyes del estilo,
a 14th-century Spanish legal code. The new edition of the code included
semi-paleographic transcriptions of all available handwritten manuscripts
of the text, along with an analysis of all variant forms of the text he
chose as his base text.
While he was a graduate student at Madison, Dr. Mannetter worked as a Teaching Assistant
and Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was also
awarded a Research Assistantship in the Seminary of Medieval Spanish Studies
at Madison under the directorship of Professors John Nitti and the late
Professor Lloyd Kasten. At the Seminary he received extensive training
in paleography, lexicography, and the application of the latest computer
software technology to the main project of the Seminary: the Dictionary
of the Old Spanish Language . This massive lexicographic project,
which is now centered at the Hispanic Society of America in New York City,
is an ongoing effort to document over 500 years of Old Spanish linguistic
development, and has been underway since the 1930's. Among the many innovative
features of this project is the inclusion of citation blocks for each
vocabulary item included in the Dictionary, which provides the dictionary
user with a sample of the authentic Old Spanish context of each item.
Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1991, he has been appointed Chief Editor
of a new dictionary project developed in conduction with the Madison Seminary,
the Dictionary of the Complete Works of Juan Manuel. This project
will document a statistical sampling of the complete narrative works of
the Spanish nobleman and author Juan Manuel (1282-1348), the nephew of
Alphonso X el Sabio (king of Spain from 1252-1284). The methodology utilized
for this project generally parallels that of the DOSL project and takes
advantage of sophisticated computer software developed at the Madison
Seminary. The narrative texts of Juan Manuel
to be included in the dictionary include: Libro del caballero y del
escudero, Libro de las tres razones o de las armas, Libro
infinido, Libro de los estados, Libro del conde Lucanor,
Tratado de la asuncion, Libro de la caza, and Cronica
abreviada.
Dr. Mannetter has recently published the Text and Concordances
of the La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes: y de sus fortunas y adversidades
(New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2006) and an article
entitled, "Assessing the Life-Changing Experience of a Study Abroad
Program" in The Voice of WAFLT, Fall 2007.
Links
For more information regarding study abroad programs,
please contact Dr. Terrence Mannetter at 425-3121, or the Global Connections Office at the following address:
Global Connections Office
102 Hagestad Hall
410 South Third Street
River Falls, WI 54022-5001
Ph
one: (715) 425-4891
Fax: (715) 425-0693
 
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