Martha Ruiz-Garcia
Teaching Associate Professor of Spanish
Undergraduate Spanish Advisor (Hispanic Linguistics Major)
ruizgar@email.unc.edu | Dey 139
At UNC since 2005
Education
Ph.D., Romance Languages, University of New Mexico
M.A., Lingüística Española, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia
B.A., Español e Inglés, Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia
Bio
Dr. Ruiz is originally from Colombia, South America. Her research interests include African contributions to Spanish, Spanish dialectology, language variation, language contact and bilingualism, Spanish phonology and syntax. She has a multicultural family, with her children being half Korean and half Colombian and raised in the States. She also enjoys music and singing, and loves to volunteer and serve the community in her free time.
Publications
El español popular de Chocó, Colombia: Evidencia de una reestructuración parcial. Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009.
Typical Courses
Span 692H: Honors thesis in Spanish
Spanish 397: Undergraduate Seminar in Language and Linguistics
Spanish 378: Afro-Hispanic Language Contacts
Spanish 376: Phonetics and Phonology
Spanish 377: Grammatical Structure of Spanish
Spanish 300: Spanish Composition and Grammar Review
Spanish 203: Intermediate Spanish I
Awards & Honors
Buchan Award recipient Fall 2016
Celebration of Faculty, Diversity Achievement and Success Fall 2014