Dr. Bethany Bateman is a Lecturer for the Department of Romance Languages (SPAN 1110, 2001, 2002, 3010, 3050) and Quechua Instructor (QUEC 1001, 1002, 2001, 2002) for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute at UGA.
Her primary research interests include: sociolinguistics, Andean Spanish, Quechua, and language contact.
Research
Bethany's doctoral thesis (Contact-induced subjectivization in the compound past: an examination of PP/PRET variation in Cusco Spanish) demonstrates how speaker perspective is encoded in the Quechua verbal system and influences non-canonical verb usage in Andean Spanish. She received the 2023 Excellence in Research Award for her work.
Education
Bethany graduated from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) in 2012 with a BA in Spanish and a BA in International Studies with a regional concentration in Latin America. At UGA, she earned her MA in Spanish Linguistics in 2015 and a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics in 2022.
