Faculty Profile for Dr. Yasmine C Beale-Rosano-Rivaya

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Yasmine Beale-Rivaya received her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2006 and holds the rank of Professor at Texas State.

Research Interests: Dr. Beale-Rivaya’s research centers on language contact, change, and borrowing in borderland communities. Her main area of focus is evidence of language contact between Romance and Semitic languages among communities, especially the Mozarabic (Arabized-Christians) communities, living between the Andalusí and Christian frontier from the ninth to the early fourteenth century in Medieval Iberia. Dr. Beale-Rivaya maintains a parallel line of research where she studies contact between Spanish and English, and Spanish and Indigenous Languages along borderland areas of the United States and Mexico.

Dr. Beale-Rivaya is currently a member of the MLA General Linguistics Committee as well as a member of the MLA Delegate Assembly. She has served as President of the Texas Medieval Association and is a member of the Board of the La Corónica journal.

She has participated in or organized the following conferences:

A special topic symposium held in Toledo in 2019: https://www.modlang.txstate.edu/toledo/

Texas Medieval Association Conference:
TEMA 2015& TEMA 2019 : https://www.modlang.txstate.edu/tema/

ICHL 23: http://ichl23.utsa.edu/

Teaching Interests

Spanish Linguistics: Syntax, Phonetics, Language Acquisition
History of the Spanish Language, Dialectology
Spanish in the Professions
Community Engagement Learning

Research Interests

Mozarabs, Mudéjar, Morisco.
Language in Medieval Iberia.
Language Contact and Change.
Religious Diversity