María Irene Moyna

María Irene Moyna has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Florida. She worked at San Diego State University and is currently Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University.

Dr. Moyna is the author of Compound Words in Spanish: Theory and history (John Benjamins, 2011). She is also the co-editor, with Alejandra Balestra and Glenn Martínez of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Linguistic Heritage (Arte Público Press, 2008) and of Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas with Susana Rivera-Mills (John Benjamins, 2016). More recently, she coedited It’s Not All About You: New Perspectives on Address Research with Bettina Kluge (John enjamins, 2019). Her work has appeared in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, Hispania, Language and Communication, Language and Literature, Linguistics, Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, Romanische Forschungen, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, Spanish in context, and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, among other venues. Dr. Moyna was Associate Editor for the 5th and 6th editions of the Chicago Spanish Dictionary (University of Chicago, 2002, 2012). She is currently working on a large-scale project on address in Uruguayan Spanish.

Dr. Moyna teaches phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, Spanish in the United States, and bilingualism, as well as grammar, translation, and Spanish for the professions. She is especially interested in developing offerings for heritage learners. In 2018, she was the co-PI, with Gabriela Zapata and Leonardo Lombardini, of an interdisciplinary pedagogical grant that developed Spanish curriculum for Agriculture students (NIH Connections Grant AKA-260429-18, Growing the Heart of Texas).