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Professor Emeritus, Department of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968-0531.
Office on campus:915.747.7032
Cell:915.538.8295
Email: teschner@utep.edu
Website: http://www.richardvincentteschner.com/
Birth: July 19, 1942, Madison, WI.
Early residence: Milwaukee, WI (April 1945-Sept. 1960; legal resident through 1966). Parents: Richard R. Teschner (attorney) and Joy G. Teschner (elected official).
Education:
B.A., Stanford University, March 1965, honors (Spanish, Political Science)
M.A., Middlebury College, August 1966 (program in Madrid)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 1972
Teaching positions:
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside (Kenosha), Jan. 1970-June 1974
The University of Iowa (1974-76)
The University of Texas at El Paso, June 1, 1976-onward: assistant professor (1976-1982), associate professor (1982-1988), professor (Aug. 1988-Aug. 2010), professor emeritus (2010- ) as well as part-time lecturer (Jan. 2012- ).
Service to the El Paso community:
Member for District 3, OSAB (Open Space Advisory Board, City of El Paso), 2012-2017.
El Paso Public Service Board Selection Committee, 2013- .
Life Member, Friends of the Río Bosque (FRB), 2011- . President of the FRB, 2014-
Franklin Mountains Wilderness Coalition (2008- ); “At-Large” member, Board of Directors (2013-2016).
State Senator José Rodríguez's Environmental Advisory Committee (2011- ); Chair of Committee, 2011-2013.
Member, Board of Directors, The Fairmont Condominium Association, 2013- . Secretary, Board of Directors, 2014- .
Rim Area Neighborhood Association (RANA): Member, Board of Directors, 2008- . Secretary, Board of Directors, 2011- . (President, B o D, 2008-09.)
RANA delegate to the City of El Paso's “City Review Committee,” 2008- .
RANA delegate to the City of El Paso-sponsored Neighborhood Coalition, 2008- .
Member, for the Central Planning District (lower West Side, Sunset Heights, El Paso High, Downtown, Segundo Barrio, Chamizal, Five Points, Central El Paso, Chihuahuita), Neighborhood Coalition [Executive] Council, 2011-2014.
Alternate (for Member Pablo López), Central Planning District, Neighborhood Coalition Council, 2014-2015.
Chair (‘President’), Neighborhood Coalition Council, 2015-2017.
Member, Coronado Neighborhood Association, 2003- .
Honorary member, Castner Heights Neighborhood Association, 2011- .
Honorary member, Cielo Vista Neighborhood Association, 2016- .
Member, Department of Defense/Office of Economic Adjustment $300,000 grant-funded Castner [Range] Conservation Conveyance Committee (“4C's”), Jan. 2010-Sept. 2015, when grant expired.
Core Member, U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke's Castner Range National Monument Initiative, Nov. 12, 2015 (when constituted)- .
Elected delegate (2011- ), Fort Bliss (TX) Restoration Advisory Board (RAB).
The Frontera Land Alliance [El Paso's only 501(c)3 land trust organization]. Board of Directors, 2004-2005. 2008-2012. Vice-President, 2010-2012.
The Nature Conservancy. Member 1979- ; Legacy Member 2005- .
Trans-Pecos/El Paso Audubon Society. Member, 2006- .
Service to the profession (a sampling):
Member, Development Committee, Admissions Testing Program, Spanish Achievement Test, The College Board/Educational Testing Service, 1984-86.
Vice-President (1987) and President (1988), Linguistic Association of the Southwest.
Vice-President (1987) and President (1988), the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. (Member of its Executive Council through 1991.)
Member (1988-90, 1996) and chair (1990), the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Selection Committee of the Modern Language Association.
Associate editor, “Theoretical Linguistics” section, Hispania (2001-2005).
Service to the university, the college and the department (a sampling):
Liberal Arts Tenure and Promotion Committee (four times).
Liberal Arts Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2006-2010).
Liberal Arts Ad Hoc Degree Review Committee (2007).
University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (1994-97, 2007-2010).
University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (1994-97, 2007-2010).
Departmental placement director, Aug. 1978-Dec. 2005.
Coordinator, Lower-Division Spanish for Native Speakers (variously from 1984-1995) and Spanish for Non-Native Speakers (early 1990s).
Assistant chair, Department of Languages and Linguistics (1997-2010).
Ca. 30 faculty search committees since the late 1970s.
Thirty other departmental committees of various sorts.
Awards:
City of El Paso “Conquistador” Award, Jan., 2006, for donating—to the Frontera Land Alliance—$1,868,500 to buy 91-acre Resler Canyon (West Side).
Award for community service, Ninth Environmental Summit, El Paso, Sept. 2009.
Award for community service, Ninth Environmental Summit, El Paso, Sept. 2009.
Award (annual “Rock Solid Award”), Supporter of the Year, the Frontera Land Alliance, Nov. 1, 2014.
“Star on the Mountain” Award, El Paso's Mayor/City Council for hiring an Austin lobbyist to get a $3.5 million legislative appropriation for a Franklin Mountains State Park Visitor Center/new Headquarters, Sept. 15, 2015.
Books and book-length items (a chronologically-ordered selection of anthologies, bibliographies, CD-ROMs, dictionaries, monographs and textbooks):
En onda. [Intermediate college-level Spanish reader.] New York: W.W. Norton, 1974. xi, 161 pp. (With Constantin Stathatos.)
Spanish and English of United States Hispanos: A Critical, Annotated, Linguistic Bibliography. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1975. xxii, 352 pp.
El diccionario del español chicano/The Dictionary of Chicano Spanish. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company, 1977/1984. xi, 144 pp. (With Roberto A. Galván.)
Español escrito: Curso para hispanohablantes bilingües. 1st ed. (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978), 2nd ed. (Macmillan, 1984), 3rd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1993), 4th ed. (Prentice Hall, 1998), 5th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2003: textbook xxv, 340 pp.; workbook iv, 212 pp.). (With Guadalupe Valdés.) 6th ed. (Prentice-Hall, 2008: textbook xxxi, 376 pp., workbook iii, 199 pp., Answer Key to Accompany the Cuaderno de actividades, ___ pp., plus the Quia Online Cuaderno de actividades) (with Guadalupe Valdés and Héctor Enríquez).
Festschrift for Jacob Ornstein: Studies in General Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. Rowley, MA: Newbury House, 1980. vii, 331 pp. (With Edward L. Blansitt, Jr.)
Cómo se escribe. [High-school Spanish-for-Native-Speakers textbook.] (With Guadalupe Valdés & Tomasina Pagán Hannum.) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. 217 pp.
Assessing Foreign Language Proficiency of Undergraduates. (Issues in Language Program Direction, vol. 2. American Association of University Supervisors [etc.].) Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle Publishers, 1991. xii, 236 pp.
Analyzing the Grammar of English: A Brief Undergraduate Textbook. (With Eston E. Evans.) Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1993. xi, 313 pp. Second edition 2000, ix, 336 pp. Third edition 2007, xiv, 232 pp.
CUBRE: Curso breve de gramática española. New York: McGraw-Hill College Custom, 1996. 2nd ed. 2998. 3rd ed. 2000. 4th ed. 2003, 311 pp. 5th ed. 2006, 272 pp.
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish. New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1997. (Accompanied by videos, workbook, ancillaries and other materials.) (With Bill VanPatten and Martha Alford Marks.) xx, 556 pp.
El triple diccionario de la lengua española (TRIDIC) / The Triple Dictionary of the Spanish Language (TRIDIC). Hatfield, PA: Star-Byte, Inc., 1996. (A CD-ROM product: 58 megabytes of inverse dictionaries and derived files.) (With Ralph W. Ewton, Jr.)
Camino oral: Fonética, fonología y práctica de los sonidos del español. 1st ed. New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1996. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000, xxiii, 296 pp.
La ortografía sincrónica del español a base de estadísticas comparativas. Munich: LINCOM EUROPA, 1999. i, 328 pp.
El libro completo del acento ortográfico español. Para qué se usa y en qué palabras exactamente se encuentra. Manual con ejercicios. Munich: LINCOM EUROPA, 2000. 197 pp.
Pronouncing English: A Stress-Based Approach with CD-ROM. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. xvi, 280 pp. (plus ROM's text files and oral files). (With M. Stanley Whitley.)
Pronouncing Brazilian Portuguese. (With Antônio R.M. Simões.) Newark, DE: LinguaText, Ltd., 2007. 332 pp. plus CD-ROM
Rhyming to Read: A Phonics Book for Beginning Readers and a Resource Book for Educators. (With Keith Polette.) New York et al.: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions, 2008. vi, 194 pp.
Serial publications:
Fifty single- and co-authored articles in journals such as Hispania, Modern Language Journal, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe, Foreign Language Annals, ADFL Bulletin, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, Papers in Romance, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Canadian Modern Language Review, Theory into Practice, Current Trends and Issues in Hispanic Linguistics, Die Unterrichtspraxis, and Confluencia.
Reviews, notes, etc.: Ca. 35 items in many of those same journals.
Papers at conferences: Ca. 60 papers/keynote addresses, various professional meetings.