Dr. Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes
Assistant Professor of Spanish and French Linguistics
Spring 2024 Office Hours
M,W,F 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, 12:30 AM - 1:30 PM, 2:30 pm - 3:30 PM
Ph.D. in Romance Languages: Spanish and French Linguistics
The University of Alabama
Dissertation: THE SOCIOPHONETICS AND LYRICAL CODEMIXING OF HOT LATIN SONGS: A COMPARISON OF THE SPONTANEOUS SPEECH AND THE ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE SPEECH OF THE TOP TWO ARTISTS IN THE GLOBAL MARKET - Bad Bunny and J Balvin
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Dr. Michael D. Picone – Dissertation Director
Department of Modern Languages and Classics
4.0 GPA
US Army Commission, Active Duty
Officer Candidate School
3rd Battalion 11th Infantry Regiment, School of Infantry
Fort Benning, Georgia
M.A. in Spanish Linguistics
San Diego State University
Thesis: “¿Tú o usted? Un estudio sobre las formas de tratamiento usadas
en el español chicano de San Diego CA” *
Thesis: “Left-Right Brain Connection in Second Language Acquisition” *
Dr. María Irene Moyna – Thesis Director *not defended
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
B.A. in Spanish and French Languages and Literatures
San Diego State University
Magna Cum Laude
A.A. in French
San Diego Mesa College
Honors
A.A. in Liberal Studies
San Diego Mesa College
Honors
University of California at Berkeley, California
(medical withdrawal sophomore year)
Latest publication:
Hayes, E. N. (2023). Meeting in the Middle: Sociophonetic Convergence of Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s Coda/s/in Their Artistic Performance Speech. Languages, 8(4), 287.
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040287 or https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/287
Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes earned her PhD in Romance Languages: Spanish and French Linguistics at The University of Alabama.
Born and raised in San Diego, California, Elizabeth’s ancestors immigrated from Northern Italy and France to Mexico, and her parents immigrated from Mexico to the US. She is a native speaker of both Spanish and English, a near-native speaker of French, and is proficient in all (19) of the rest of the Romance Languages.
She attended high school in Les Clayes sous Bois, France during 11th grade, and absolutely connected with the language and culture of her ancestry. She speaks in French with her middle daughter, and in Spanish with all three of her girls. Her husband is a true Southerner who has picked up a few words of her many languages throughout the years.
She taught at San Diego State University, where she earned her Master’s Degree in Spanish Linguistics, then she joined the US Army and was Commissioned as an Active Duty Army Officer at the 3rd Battalion 11th Infantry Regiment (OCS), School of Infantry, Fort Benning, GA.
After serving her country for a few years, she left active duty and became the Director of a small k-12 accredited private school in Bonita CA (in San Diego County). A few years later, her husband joined the Army and they were stationed at Fort Benning, near his hometown of Columbus, GA.
She taught at Columbus State University the eight years they were in Georgia, where she served as the Faculty Advisor for CHispA (CSU Hispanic Association), the Goizueta Scholarship Chair and Advisor, and was the CSU Liaison for the Muscogee County Hispanic Outreach Committee.
While in Columbus, GA, she also taught at Georgia Military College’s Columbus, Milledgeville Online, and Global Online campuses, where she served on the GMC President’s Faculty Advisory Council and also as a college recruitment advisor and Hispanic outreach officer. She taught at Georgia Military College online while at The University of Alabama.
Also in the Columbus, GA area, she taught at the largest college on US Army Fort Benning: Central Texas College, serving her fellow Soldiers, Veterans, and their dependents.
Her proficiency in a wide range of dialectal varieties and registers was highly utilized as the sole interpreter for the Federal Court in the Middle District of GA for several years.
Her mission is life is to create bridges across cultures through shared language, and she believes that the world will be a better place if everyone will learn just one more language. That way people would be able to talk to someone they otherwise never would have talked to ♥.
She enjoys Latin music, Francophone music, dancing, cooking, swimming, and having fun, but most of all she loves sharing her passion for language and culture with others.
Her husband completed his MA at the University of Alabama and is a high school and middle school computer science and mathematics teacher. They have a kitty named Chiquita Bonita "chee-KEE-tah boh-NEE-tah" (pretty little girl), and an orange kitty named Sweet Potato (originally named Pote "POH-teh" after their favorite character in “Queen of the South”).