Biography
A native of Oviedo (Asturies, Spain), Francisco Fernández-Rubiera is Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Central Florida. After obtaining his PhD from Georgetown University in 2009, and before joining UCF's Department of Modern Languages in Fall 2012, he spent two years teaching in the Department of English Studies at the University of Alicante (Spain).
Since the Summer of 2023, Dr. Rubiera has been honored by the Consulado General de España en Miami to be appointed Cónsul Honorario del Reino de España en Orlando (Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Spain in Orlando).
Education
- Ph.D. in Spanish Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University (2009)
- M.S. in Spanish Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University (2005)
- M.A. in Spanish Applied Linguistics from Michigan State University (2003)
- B.A. in English Studies from University of Alicante (Spain) (2000)
Research Interests
His general areas of specialization are syntax, semantics and pragmatics (how word-order alternations in the sentence architecture affect the interpretive component and in what situations) in Spanish, Asturian, Portuguese and English. More specifically, he is interested in the status of clitics, the factors that interplay in their position at the sentence level, complementizer systems, and Main Clause Phenomena.
Recent Research Activities
The syntactic and pragmatic factors that may be at play in the trigger for Main Clause Phenomena in both Germanic and Romance languages granted him a co-participant role in the project "Traces of History", a 1.1 million dollar project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Details about the project here.
Some of the findings stemming from his research were presented at various well-reputed international conferences, such as Colloquium
of Generative Grammar, Going Romance, Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, Simposio Internacional de la SEL (Sociedad Española
de Lingüística), and the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS), among others.
Awards
- Recipient of TIP (Teaching Incentive Program), 2018-2019. https://facultyexcellence.ucf.edu/teaching-incentive-program-award-recipients/
- Recipient of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2021). https://news.cah.ucf.edu/news/2021-founders-day-awards-honor-excellence-in-the-arts-and-humanities/
- Recipient of TIP (Teaching Incentive Program), 2023-2024
Courses
| Course # | Course | Title | Mode | Days/Times | Syllabus |
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| 19621 | SPN4800 | Syntax of Spanish | Mixed Mode (M) | M,W 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Unavailable |
| 20785 | SPN5845 | History of Spanish Lang | Web-Based (W) | 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Unavailable |
| 19620 | SPT3805 | Spa Trans & Interp Mass Com | Web-Based (W) | 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Unavailable |
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