Timothy B Barnett, Ph.D.

Dr. Barnett has been teaching Spanish language and literature classes at various universities in San Antonio for over fifteen years. His research interests include comedias by Lope de Vega and the novela picaresca. His lives in San Antonio with his wife and two children and numerous pets.

2002 Ph.D. The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Major area: Spanish Golden Age Literature
Minor area: Medieval literature
Dissertation title: Of Wonder and Invention: Three Mythological Plays by Lope de Vega

1994 M.A. The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Major: Spanish Literature

1991 B.A. The University of North Alabama
Florence, Alabama
Major: Spanish
Minor: Marketing

Spring 2015-Spring 2017, Fall 2018-present
Adjunct Professor of Spanish, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas

Courses taught:

• Elementary Spanish I-online
• Elementary Spanish II-online

Fall 2006-present
Adjunct Professor of Spanish, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas

Courses taught:

• Elementary Spanish I
• Elementary Spanish II

Fall 2005-present
Adjunct Professor of Spanish, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas

Courses taught:

• Elementary Spanish I
• Elementary Spanish I -online
• Elementary Spanish II
• Elementary Spanish II -online
• Intermediate Spanish I
• Intermediate Spanish I-online
• Intermediate Spanish II
• Intermediate Spanish II-online
• Latin American Literature I
• Spanish Short Story

St. Mary’s Upward Bound program courses:

• The Hispanic World: Language and Culture: Intermediate and Advanced Spanish Language
• The Hispanic World: Language and Culture: Beginning Spanish Language

Fall 2001-Summer 2005
Assistant Professor of Spanish, The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas.

Courses taught:

• Elementary Spanish I
• Elementary Spanish II
• Intermediate Spanish I
• Intermediate Spanish II
• Advanced Composition and Stylistics
• Advanced Grammar
• Introduction to Spanish Literature
• Introduction to Spanish American Literature
• Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature- El Quijote
• Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature- 20th Century Latin American and Spanish Short Story
• Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature- Latin American Short Story
• Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature- 20th Century Latin American Drama.

Fall 1999

Adjunct Professor, The University of Montevallo, Foreign Languages Department,
Montevallo, Alabama.

Courses taught:

• Accelerated Elementary Spanish
• Intermediate Spanish II

Fall 1992-2001

Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Alabama, Modern Languages and Classics Department.

Courses taught:

• Elementary Spanish I
• Elementary Spanish II
• First Year Spanish Review
• Intermediate Spanish I
• Intermediate Spanish II
• Advanced Grammar and Composition

Academic and Administrative Experience

Summer-2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2007, 2006

Reviewed 3rd edition of Viva by Vista Higher Learning May 2015.

Participated as a speech sample evaluator for the Vista Higher Learning speech recognition research project 2015.

Reviewed 4th edition of Vistas by Vista Higher Learning April 2014

AP Reader in Spanish for Educational Testing Services-2006, 2007, 2011, 2013 and 2014

Texas LOTE grader for Educational Testing Services-July 2011-2014

Fall 2001-Summer 2005

The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

• Sponsor of Sigma Delta Pi.
• Assistant Director of Study in Mexico program; taught and supervised students in Querétaro, México.
• In charge of Spanish library acquisitions.
• Developed new correspondence courses for Intermediate Spanish.
• Developed schedule of classes for Spanish majors and minors.
• Supervisor of Modern Foreign Languages’ student workers and language laboratory assistants.

1996 Fall -1997 Spring

The University of Alabama, Administrative Assistant to the Director of Elementary Spanish.

Duties:

• Creation and coordination of administration of departmental mid- term and final exams.
• Held and directed meetings with those teaching elementary Spanish classes with regard to departmental examinations.
• Review of final grade calculations of all departmental Graduate Teaching Assistants.

1996

The University of Alabama, Assistant to the Director of the Alabama in Spain program in Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

Duties:

• Managing and accompanying students on flight to Madrid from Atlanta.
• Problem recognition and resolution with the program or students.

1995

The University of Alabama Administrative Assistant to Director of Intermediate Spanish Program.

Duties:

• Creation and coordination of administration of departmental mid- term and final exams.

Review of “Avenues of translation: the city in Iberian and Latin American writing, ed. by Regina Galasso and Evelyn Scaramella.” Bucknell, Choice, vol. 57 issue 2, October 2019

Review of “Rogers, Charlotte. Mourning El Dorado: literature and extractivism in the contemporary American tropics.” by Charlotte Rogers. University of Virginia, Choice, vol. 57 issue 6, February 2020

• Member of Phi Sigma Iota The International Foreign Language Honor Society The University of North Alabama
• Member of Sigma Delta Pi La sociedad nacional hispánica The University of Alabama
• Member of Phi Beta Delta The Honor Society for International Scholars The University of Alabama
• Member of the Modern Language Association
• Member of the Association of the Comediantes
• Member of The Cervantes Society of America

Gardening, cooking, various pets and homebrewing.

Various comedias by Lope de Vega and the novela picaresca

• Elementary Spanish I
• Elementary Spanish II