Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar is a Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Western Oregon University and a collaborator with the ASALE (Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española) and RAE (Real Academia Española) for the Nuevo Diccionario Histórico del Español. She earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010 and holds two BAs in Spanish Philology and Italian Philology from the University of Salamanca. Her research focuses on a socio-historical approach to language, particularly examining how social and cultural factors combine to influence lexical changes.

Among her notable publications are “Cartas desde la California recién anexionada”: rasgos lingüísticos de la correspondencia privada de María Amparo Ruiz de Burton en los fondos de la Huntington Library (1852-1857).” (Revista internacional de lingüística iberoamericana, 2023); «Se acordará de escribir a los pobres desterrados en este valle de dullness». Prácticas del translenguar en la correspondencia privada de María Amparo Ruiz de Burton” (Escritura de mano de mujeres en el ámbito hispánico de la Edad Media a la Modernidad, 2022); “La contribución del árabe al hispanorromance” (The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Historical Linguistics, 2023) “Los indigenismos léxicos en la Relación de la jornada de Cíbola: la americanización del español” (Revista de Filología Española, 2021) along with R.P., “Attitudes Toward Lexical Arabisms in 16th Century Spanish Texts” (John Benjamins, 2016), «Mas digo ser yo el primero que en castellano procuré poner las reglas y arte d’ello»: Tradición e innovación léxica en el Libro de Agricultura (1513-1539) de Gabriel Alonso de Herrera (Boletín de la Real Academia), her monograph Despertar palabras, renacer historias (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2023), and Obras completas by José Ortega y Gasset (Taurus, 2009).

Additionally, she authored the Spanish Willamette Promise test, which grants the Oregon State Seal of Biliteracy. Patricia has worked as an assistant researcher for the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Fundación Ortega y Gasset

Contact Information

Office: HSS 305
Telephone503-838-9541
Email: gimenezp@wou.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 12 to 13:50pm & Wednesdays 11 to 1:50pm & by appointment

Class Schedule – Winter 2024

Course Title
SPAN 318 Spanish for Heritage Speakers II
SPAN 480 History of the Spanish Language
SPAN 482 Spanish in the US

See Publications

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1871-2239

Selected articles Academia

Research Areas

Historical Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Language Variation and Change, Lexicography, Spanish in the US