Summary
Casilde A. Isabelli, (Ph.D. Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2001, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), is a professor of Spanish linguistics and since 2022 has been serving as the interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
Since arriving in 2000, Isabelli served as the director of the basic Spanish language program (2001-2014) training and supervising GTAs and as chair of the department of World Languages and Literatures (2014-2022). She has taught a range of lower- and upper-division courses in the Spanish B.A. program, in addition to graduate-level courses in the Spanish M.A. program. She also co-hosted the 2019 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, is the faculty advisor for the University's Sigma Delta Pi (National Hispanic Honor Society Chapter), and has hosted a number of on-campus scholar visits (Abbott, Potowski, Montrul, Hopp, Cunnings).
Research interests
Her research interests include
- Psycholinguistics
- Syntactic Processing
- Hispanic Linguistics
- Heritage Language Acquisition
- Second Language Acquisition
- Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad and Service-Learning Setting
Scholarly books
- Isabelli-García, C.L, Isabelli, C.A. (2020). . Palgrave Macmillian.
Language textbooks
- Fonder-Solano, L., Isabelli, C.A., Martínez, M.M. (2024). (2nd ed.) Vista Higher Learning. (2018).
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- Dorwick, T., Perez Girones, A.M., Becher, A., Isabelli, C.A. (2012). (9th ed.). McGraw-Hill Publishers.
Peer reviewed articles & chapters
- Nishida, C. Rodríguez Riccelli, A., Isabelli, C.A. (2024). Lingua,103630.
- Isabelli, C.A. (2021). Contextual effects in processing OVS constructions in Spanish: A partial replication of VanPatten and Houston (1998) and Malovrh (2006). In Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong (Eds.), . Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten (Studies in bilingualism series), (pp. 183-199). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Press.
- Lafford, B., & Isabelli, C.A. (2018). Programas de estudios en el extranjero. In J. Muñoz-Basols, E. Gironzetti, & M. Lacorte (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of Spanish language teaching: Metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2 (pp. ). London, UK: Routledge.
- Isabelli, C.A., & Muse, S. (2016). . Heritage Language Journal, Special Issue on Service Learning, 13(3), 331-353.
- Isabelli, C.A. (2013). . The future of education: Conference proceedings 2013 (pp. 649-654). Edizioni.
- Isabelli, C.A. (2008). , 91(2), 463-476.
- Isabelli, C.A. (2007). Development of the Spanish subjunctive by advanced learners: Study-abroad followed by at-home instruction. Foreign Language Annals, 40(2), .
- Isabelli, C.A. (2006a). Mood selection: Northern Nevada Latinos. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 10(1), .
- Isabelli, C.A. (2006b). Use of Spanish among the Latino community in Northern Nevada. Border-Lines: Journal of the Latino Research Center, 1(1), 16-35.
- Isabelli, C.A., & Nishida, C. (2005).. In D. Eddington (Ed.), Selected proceedings of the 6th conference on the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as first and second languages (pp. 78-91). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.
- Isabelli, C.A. (2004a).. In H. Byrnes & H. Maxim (Eds.), Advanced foreign language learning: A challenge to college programs (pp. 114-130). Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.
- Isabelli, C.A. (2004b).. Hispania, 87, 150-162.
Education
- Ph.D., Spanish Applied Linguistics, and a certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. One-year dissertation research and teaching award, University of Barcelona, Spain (1997-1998).
- M.A., Hispanic Literature and Linguistics, University of Iowa, 1994
- B.A., Mathematics (Computer Science) and Spanish, Illinois State University, 1992; Senior-year study abroad, Centro de Enseñanza Para Extranjeros, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.