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/
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
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Yasmine C (Principal). Faculty Summer Research Grant, Center for European Studies, Department of Education, UT-Austin, $3000. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
- Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Yasmine C. University Lecturers Series, $800. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
- Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Yasmine C (Principal). Online Resource Grant for PAO2-4 (extension to Proquest), $43650. (Funded: 2013). Grant.
- Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Yasmine C (Principal). University Lecturers Series, $813. (Funded: 2008). Grant.
- Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Yasmine C (Principal). Alkek Library Research Fund Award, $1276. (Funded: 2006). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Y. C. (Ed.). (2024). Minority and Minoritized Languages and Cultures: A Recourse for Teaching about Languages in the Humanities. San Marcos,Texas, USA: Texas State University. Retrieved from https://pressbooks.txst.edu/minoritylanguages/
- Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Y. C. (n.d.). Tracing New Frontiers: Mozarabes and Toledanos as Villains in the Construction of the Spanish Cultural Imagery. In Mark of Toledo: Intellectual Context and Debates between Christians and Muslims in Early Thirteenth Century Iberia (pp. 77–98). Cordoba, Spain: UCOPress – CNERU – The Warburg Institute.
- (2019). Places of Encounter: Language, Culture, and Religious Identity in Medieval Iberia. In J. Busic & Y. C. Beale-Rosano-Rivaya (Eds.), Places of Encounter: Language, Culture, and Religious Identity in Medieval Iberia (I, Vol. 41). California, USA: E-Humanista. Retrieved from https://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/volumes/41
- Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Y., & Busic, J. (Eds.). (2018). A Companion to Medieval Toledo: Reconsidering the Canons. New Readings of Medieval Toledo (ca. 711-1517). Netherlands: Brill.
- Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Y. C. (2018). “Shared Legal Spaces in the Arabic Language Notarial Documents of Toledo.” In A Companion to Medieval Toledo: Reconsidering the Canons. New Readings of Medieval Toledo (ca. 711-1517). (pp. 221–237). Netherlands: Brill.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Excellence in Service, COLA Texas State University. 2016 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: NEH Professorship in Teaching 2021-2024, NEH. September 1, 2021 - June 30, 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award, Tx State. September 1, 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Liberal Arts Golden Apple Award for Teaching @Professor/Associate Professor Level, Texas State University. September 1, 2021
- Award / Honor Nominee: Mariel M Muir Excellence in Mentoring, COLA Texas State University. August 2018
Featured service activities
- Member
Presidential Work-Life Committee
- Member
Continuity of Student Life Work Group-University Task Force
- Member
Humanities PhD Exploration
- Member
Liberal Arts Study Abroad Committee
- Member
Major-Minor Recruitment Committee
- Member
Spanish MA Recruitment Committee