(1997) Terrence Mannetter
Professor of Spanish
288C Kleinpell Fine Arts
(715) 425-3121
email: terrence.mannetter@uwrf.edu

B.A. University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Madison

Areas of Specialization:
Second Language Teaching Methodology
Social Media and Second Language Pedagogy
Spanish and Portuguese Philology and Peninsular Dialectology
Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature
Modern Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics

Autobiographical Information:
Terrence Mannetter is currently Professor of Spanish in 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 continues to serve as the UWRF Faculty Representative of the UW System Office of Professional and Instructional Development Council (OPID). Dr. Mannetter also serves as Director and yearly trip leader of the Winter Interim in Mexico study abroad program. 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 from UW-River Falls. This Academic Year (2010-2011) he is teaching courses in Intermediate and Advanced Spanish language, Peninsular Spanish Civilization, advanced Peninsular Spanish Literature, and Phonetics.

Terrence 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). He has published several recent articles in the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers Journal The Voice of WAFLT, including: "A Standardized Natural Approach Spanish Program at the University of Wisconsin River Falls: A Case Study in Faculty Collaboration" (Spring 2004), "Assessing the Life-Changing Experience of a Study Abroad Program" (Spring 2007), and "Critical-Incident Journals: Reflecting on Study Abroad Experiences" (Spring 2009). His current research project (Summer, 2011) involves the semi-paleographic electronic transcription of the Fueros de Navarra, an early legal text from the Navarra region of Spain.

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, where he also studied Classical Latin and Classical Arabic. His dissertation involved 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.

During his years of research at the Seminary he received extensive training in paleography, lexicography, and the application of current computer software technology to the principal project of the Seminary: the creation of 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.