Faculty: Scott Lamanna

Scott Lamanna, Assistant Professor

Co-Director, Interim Program in Mexico

(616) 526-6355
sgl8@calvin.edu
Office: Hiemenga 412

Educational background

BA (Wake Forest University 1994)
Teacher Licensure (K-12 Spanish) University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1997
MA (Indiana University 2005)
PhD (Indiana University 2012)

Academic interests

Spanish in the United States; Language and Dialect Contact; Colombian Spanish; Sociolinguistics; Dialectology; Spanish Syntax; Second Language Acquisition; Foreign Language Pedagogy

Recent activities

Professor Lamanna recently presented a paper, "Second Person Singular Pronoun Use by Colombians: Role Plays vs. Questionnaires" at the first Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina Conference in Raleigh, NC.

Hobbies

Singing, dancing, reading, traveling with his wife, enjoying good music (Christian, Latin, Classical, '80s pop)

Spanish-speaking countries visited

Colombia: spent a semester abroad in Fall 1992, visited in 1996, 1999, 2004, & 2007,                    dissertation research in 2009

Spain: mission trip to Granada in 2001

Additional information

His wife is an architect from Bogotá, Colombia. They have extensive ties to the Hispanic communities of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana.