Iara Mantenuto
['jara mante'nuto]
California State University Dominguez Hills
I am an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the English department at California State University Dominguez Hills.
I am also the Coordinator of the Teaching English as a Second Language MA at CSUDH.
I graduated from the Department of Linguistics at UCLA.
My primary research interests lie in morphology, syntax, fieldwork, language documentation and pedagogy of linguistics/languages.
I am honored to work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples.
Contact: imantenuto [AT] csudh [DOT] edu
You can download my full CV here.
Upcoming Events:
June-July 2023 - LSA Summer Institute course "Teaching Linguistics" with Lynnette Arnold
July 2023 - LSA Summer Institute panel on mentoring, organized by COGEL
July 2023 - I will be co-presenting two talks at the Conference in Scholarly Teaching of Linguistics: "Reimagining Introductory Linguistics through Raciolinguistics" with Aris Clemons and Lynnette Arnold and "Social media in the Linguistic Classroom: Discussing Appreciation vs Appropriation" with Lauren Casillas and Monique Mangum
Latest News:
2023 - Meg Gotowski, Selina Mendoza and I have received the The Jacobs Research Funds to study acquisition of comparatives in Yucuquimi de Ocampo Mixtec
June 2023 - Dictionary Society of North America Conference talk: "San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec Dictionary Project" [with Félix Cortés] (please email me for the slides)
May 2023 - My proceeding article with Lauren Casillas and Monique Mangum by the title "Introducing Linguistics to High Schoolers as an Healing Practice" has been published [Article]
January 2023 - My article with Félix Cortés and Jeremy Steffman by the title "San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec" has been published as a JIPA Illustration in the Journal of the International Phonetic Association [Article]
2023 - Félix Cortés and I have been awarded the NSF-DEL grant for a three years project on native plants and their usage
Fall 2022 - Félix Cortés, Octavio León Vázquez and I published two children's books, thanks to the original version of the book in Chatino by Hilaria Cruz [Books available on Lulu for Yucuquimi de Ocampo Mixtec and San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec, or feel free to contact us for the PDF versions]
This is a trilingual dictionary which community members, my Research Assistants for this project and I are creating for the town of San Sebastián del Monte.
Taller de lecto-escritura del Mixteco de Yucuquimi de Ocampo y de San Sebastián del Monte [with Octavio León Vázquez y Félix Cortés]
A workshop on teaching local students to write their language, to learn about linguistics and pedagogical techniques to become language teachers, translators, professors, and use their languages moving forward in their careers.
Contact us if you are a first generation student, a former first generation student or someone who cares about first generation students in the field of linguistics. Check out our website in construction for more information of who we are.
San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec Website
This is a website where you can find most of the products of our language documentation and revitalization project.