Dr. Felice Coles is a Professor of Spanish and Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. She is also the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Ph.D. in Second Language Studies.
Research Interests
Dr. Coles' research interests include Spanish in the United States and dialects of American English. She also studies obsolescence of minority languages in the United States.
Biography
Dr. Coles teaches Spanish linguistics and general linguistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the Editor of the Southern Journal of Linguistics and advisor to Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honor Society and Phi Sigma Iota International Foreign Language Honor Society.
Books
Isleño Spanish. 1999. Languages of the World/Materials, vol. 278. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europa.
Articles
“Isleño Verbal Art Celebrating God in Nature.” Louisiana Folklive Journal 43. Forthcoming 2019.
“Swimming Back to Spain: An Isleño Perspective on the Ancestral Homeland.” 2016. Southern Journal of Linguistics 40(2): 92-105.
“Stance and the Subjunctive in Isleño Spanish.” 2012. Hispania 95(2): 285-298.
“Predictive Conditionals as Warnings in Isleño Spanish.” 2012. Journal of Pragmatics 44(8): 970-979.
“Double Identity: Isleños are Yats, Too.” 2012. Southern Journal of Linguistics 36(1): 156-169.
“Selectively, Reluctantly Global: The Isleños of Louisiana.” 2012. Globality Studies 27.
Courses Taught
- LIN 200 Introduction to Linguistics
- LIN 511 Dialects of American English
- LIN 545 Pidgins and Creoles
- LIN 672 Linguistic Anthropology
- LIN 690 Doctoral Readings
- LIN 795 Doctoral Prospectus
- LIN 796 Dissertation Research and Writing
- LIN 797 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
- SPAN 330 Spanish Grammar for Oral Communication
- SPAN 371 Spanish Grammar for Oral Communication
Education
B.A. Spanish, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge (1981)
M.A. Linguistics, University of Utah (1983)
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin (1991)
Recognitions
- Humanities Teacher Award, Mississippi Humanities Council , 2013
- Teacher of the Year, College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi, 2013