OSUCHiLL is one of the premier graduate student conferences on Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics hosted in the US. The conference, organized entirely by graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, aims to bring together a wide variety of scholars working within distinct disciplines and on many different aspects of Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, or any other indigenous language.
The Keynote speakers are:
Dr. Mary E. Beaton
Dr. Mary E. Beaton is a linguist who graduated from our department in 2015. She researches the interactions between social categories and phonetics. Her work focuses mainly on Spanish in the United States, including Puerto Rico. She is currently studying the Spanish spoken by Puerto Rican communities in Lorain, Ohio. She teaches courses at Denison across the Spanish curriculum from beginning language to advanced courses focusing on linguistic analysis.
Dr. Ana María Carvalho
Dr. Ana María Carvalho focuses on Portuguese and Spanish Linguistics, and specifically on language contact, bilingualism, and sociolinguistics. Some of her most important works analyze the contact between Spanish and Portuguese in the borders between Brazil and Spanish-speaking countries such as Argentina and Uruguay. At OSUChiLL she will be presenting her documentary “Vozes das margens” which portrays speakers of Portuguese in the northern part of Uruguay.
Dr. Chad Howe
Dr. Chad Howe graduated from our department in 2006. His research focuses on language variation and change in Romance Languages. Essentially, he investigates the causes for structural changes in language or how language evolves. Additionally, he researches topics related to the language contact between Spanish and Quechua in South America.
