CURRICULUM VITAE (25 November 2007)
Dr Juan A Thomas

tel: (518) 446 -1384
[email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics. University at Albany, State University of New York. 2006.
Exam areas: dialectology, historical linguistics, languages in contact
Dissertation Title: Hispanismos en napolitano
Dissertation Director: Dr. Maurice Westmoreland

MA Hispanic Linguistics. University at Albany, State University of New York. 2004.

Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA., 1992.
Dissertation title: Technetium and Rhenium Complexes of Tripodal Ligands
Dissertation Director: Dr. Alan Davison

MS Materials Science. University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont. 1988.

BS Chemical Engineering. Clarkson University Potsdam, NY 1986. 4.000/4.000

OTHER EDUCATION

Diploma Advanced level Italian Language and Culture: linguistic concentration 30/30
Università Italiana per Stranieri. Perugia, Italy. 2006.


Diplomas Galician language and culture, Instituto da lingua galega,
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Initial course 100 hours, 1997
Intermediate course 100 hours (scholarship), 1998
Upper course in Galician philology (scholarships) 80 hours, 1999, 2003

Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. 1988

Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (Scholarship student) 1981

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University at Albany, State University of New York:

Visiting Assistant Professor in Spanish, August, 2006- present

Liaison in the Spanish University in the High School program. evaluate, observe, advise, approve, NY High Schools that teach U.Albany ASPN103/104 classes.

Lecturer in Spanish: August, 2005- May, 2006
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant: August, 2002 – May, 2006

Courses taught at the University at Albany:

ASPN 100 Elementary Spanish I
ASPN 101 Elementary Spanish II
ASPN 103 Intermediate Spanish I
ASPN 104 Intermediate Spanish II
ASPN 206Y Intermediate Conversation and Oral Grammar
ASPN 301Z Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition
ASPN 223 Introduction to Literary Analysis
ASPN 323 Textual Analysis
ASPN 405 Evolution of the Spanish Language
ASPN 505 History of the Spanish Language

Coordinating: Head Teaching Assistant: coordinated and supervised teaching assistants

Fall 2003 six sections of ASPN 100 Elementary Spanish I
Fall 2004 two sections of ASPN 104 Intermediate Spanish II

Teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA (1988- 1990):

CHEM 5.11 General Chemistry
CHEM 5.03 Inorganic Chemistry I
CHEM 5.33 Laboratory Chemistry

Industrial Experience:

International Business Machines (IBM) Essex Junction, VT

Inorganic and Environmental Chemist: July, 1992- June, 2002
Engineer, Semiconductor Manufacturing: June, 1986- January, 1988

SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS/GRANTS

2007 University at Albany Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award

2006 University at Albany Foundation Award for presentation at the Third International
Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS3).

2005 Graduate Students’ Employment Union GSEU/NYS Professional Development Award
for research in Naples and Perugia, Italy: ‘Hispanismos en napolitano’ and for research
in Santiago de Compostela, Spain: ‘La gheada’

2004 Graduate Students’ Employment Union GSEU/NYS Professional Development Award
for research started in Naples and Perugia, Italy ‘Hispanismos en napolitano’

2003 Graduate Students’ Employment Union GSEU/NYS Professional Development Award
Research and Summer study at Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2003, 1999, 1998 Scholarship, Instituto da lingua galega, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2002 – 2006 State University of New York at Albany. Graduate Student Teaching Assistantship

Other:

Scholarship Tau Beta Pi 1988- 1989; Frederica Clarkson Award, Clarkson University 1986; ACS Award 1986; Chemical Engineering Award Pablo Guttman 1985; Physical Chemistry Award George L. Jones 1985; Tau Beta Pi Weiss April, 1985; Omega Chi Epsilon Chemical Engineering Award April, 1984; Clarkson University President's List 1982- 1986; Summer Scholarship, Universidad Complutense Madrid Spain1981.

LANGUAGES: fluent in Spanish (heritage speaker), fluent in Italian (heritage speaker); fluent in English (native), fluent in Galician-Portuguese; reading and speaking knowledge of German and French

MEMBERSHIPS: Membership in the MLA, NYSAFLT, Tau Beta Pi (Engineering), Omega Chi Epsilon (Chemical Engineering), Phi Kappa Phi (General Studies)

PUBLICATIONS:

Thomas, J.A. accepted for publication. “Catalan and Arabic loanwords in Neapolitan:
Borrowings of Borrowings?”Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa / Ottawa Papers in
Linguistics

Thomas, J. A. accepted for publication. “Reflexiones metalingüísticas acerca del voseo
costarricense”. Spanish in Context

Thomas, J. A. 2007 “Comprehension of L2 videos: Does what works for French in Action work
for Destinos?” Language Association Journal. 58.1. 12 –15.

Thomas, J. A. 2007. ‘The use of gheada in three generations of women from Carballo, A
Coruña’ In Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Jonathan Holmquist, Augusto Lorenzino, and Lotfi Sayahi, 61 –73. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com,document#1527.

Thomas, J. A.2005. “La divergencia entre actitudes y conducta lingüísticas: la gheada gallega y
la formación de un registro culto oral” In Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Lotfi Sayahi and M. Westmoreland. Somerville, MA Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 54 – 66.www.lingref.com,document#1140.

Thomas J.A. and L. Sayahi. 2005. “Morphophonological and semantic adaptation of Arabisms
in Galician” in Cahiers linguistiques d’Ottawa 33, 23 –42.

Thomas, J. A. 1994. "Beta Phase Tungsten in Sputtered Tungsten Films Characterized by X-Ray
Diffraction", IBM Technical Report TR- 1024.

Thomas, J. A.1993. "Surface Ionic Contaminants in Solvent Gloves Used in Semiconductor
Device Manufacturing", IBM Technical Report TR-19.1022.

Thomas, J. A. and A. Davison. 1992. "Technetium complexes of Tripodal Oxygen Donor
Ligands" Inorg.Chem., 31, 1976- 8.

Thomas, J. A. and A. Davison. 1991. "High oxidation state Technetium and Rhenium complexes
of hydrotris(1- pyrazolyl)borate" Inorganica Chimica Acta, 190, 231- 235.

Thomas, J. A., and A. Davison. 1991. "Technetium(II) complexes of potentially heptadentate
Schifbase ligands: synthesis and characterization. X-ray crystal structure of Tc(tren-py3)}(PF6)2." Inorganica Chimica Acta, 184, 99- 105.


PAPERS PRESENTED

Thomas, J.A. “Intertextuality in A Negra sombra de Rosalía” in “Probing Brevity- Studies on
Short Texts” Second Annual Research Conference Department of Languages, Literatures
and Cultures University at Albany, 1 November, 2007

Thomas, J.A. “Phonological adaptations of Hispanisms in Neapolitan: geminates and
consonantal clusters” Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2007. Universidade do Minho,
Braga, Portugal, June 2007.

Thomas, J. A. “Hispanisms in Neapolitan: linguistic footprints left during the Viceroyalty”
Third Annual Robert Dombroski Italian Conference. University of Connecticut at Storrs,
October, 2006

Thomas, J. A. “El uso de la gheada en tres generaciones de mujeres de Carballo, A Coruña”
Third International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS3). Temple University,
April, 2006

Thomas, J. A‘Do Advance Organizers facilitate comprehension of Destinos Videos?’ in “LLCP
Conference: Languages, Literatures and Cultures in Pedagogy” State University of New York at Albany, March, 2006

Thomas, J. A ‘O mar na poesía de Rosalía e os trobadores da Ría de Vigo’ in “First Annual
Poetry Conference” State University of New York at Albany, October, 2005

Thomas, J. A ‘Lexical and Cultural ‘Borrowing’: A Gastronomic Journey from America to
Southern Italy via Spain’ in “Revealing Cultures: Current Research Symposium for graduate students in Languages, Literatures and Cultures” State University of New York at Albany, April, 2005

Thomas, J. A “Españolismos en napolitano: la identidad de sus primeros usuarios” in
“Expanding Perspectives in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages:
Discourses of Identity, Gender, and Sexuality.” City University of New York: The Graduate Center, December, 2004

Thomas, J. A. “La divergencia entre actitudes y conducta lingüísticas: la gheada gallega y la
formación de un registro culto oral” Second International Workshop on Spanish
Sociolinguistics (WSS2). State University of New York at Albany, March, 2004

Simpson, R. D., Thomas, J. A., Davison, A., Jones, A., and W. M. Davis, "Oxygen-atom transfer
reactions from technetium and rhenium trioxo cores" 206th ACS National Meeting,
Chicago, Illinois, August 22 - 27, 1993.

CREATIVE WORKS

Thomas, J.A. ‘Traducendo la fotografia di Robert Doisneau: Le repos du F.E.I., Paris 1944” in
feeling, Daniela Margheriti. Perugia, Morlacchi Editori, 2004

SERVICE

University Workshops:

Thomas, J.A. ‘El español intermedio universitario en los institutos de Nueva York: un año de
observaciones’ Twelfth Annual Seminar: U. Albany’s University in the High School
Spanish Program 2 November 2007.

Thomas, J. A “Desde los principios: el programa de español en UAlbany” Eleventh Workshop
U. Albany’s University in the High School Spanish Program 3 November 2006

Departmental Workshops:

Thomas, J. A “The presentation of verbs in beginning college Spanish manuals” Spanish
Teaching Assistants’ Workshop October 2003

Thomas, J. A “The Comprehension of videos in the L2 classroom ” Círculo de Lingüística
Aplicada 1 March 2003

Other:

Technical and computer assistant Second International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics
(WSS2). State University of New York at Albany, March, 2004

Member of the University-wide hiring committee for the Coordinator of the Center for Language
Technologies and Infrastructure, University at Albany, spring 2007