Position Title
Lecturer of Spanish
Position Title
Lecturer of Spanish
724 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Fall 26: Monday 12 pm - 1 pm, Wednesday 4 pm - 6 pm
Bio
Dr. Miriam Villazón Valbuena is a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Davis. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from UC Riverside, where her dissertation examined lexical maintenance and social media use in the Asturian diaspora. Her research focuses on bilingual communities and minoritized languages, particularly Asturian, and on how social media shapes the sociolinguistic experience of their speakers. She is the Vice-President of Asturian Studies, and a collaborator of the Latine Co-Lab and the Spanish of California Lab (SOCALab).
Education and Degree(s)
- Ph.D. in Spanish, UC Riverside
- M.A. in Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside
- B.A. in English Philology, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain)
Courses
Heritage Spanish Program (SPA 31)
Publications
BOOKS
- Estudios asturianos en el siglo XXI, edited by Isabel Álvarez Sancho, Covadonga Lamar Prieto and Miriam Villazón Valbuena. Uviéu: Trabe, 2025.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Lamar Prieto, Covadonga, Villazón Valbuena, Miriam, and Miguel Muñoz Valtierra. “Redes sociales y mantenimiento de una lengua minorizada: San Basilio de Palenque.” Comunidades digitales: Perspectivas interdisciplinarias desde y sobre América Latin@, ed. by D. García León, J. García León and D. Dalton. Raleigh: A Contracorriente, 2026, pp. 151-182.
- Villazón Valbuena, Miriam. “«¿Fame?» «Sí»: el paisaje lingüístico de Asturias a través de la publicidad.” Estudios Asturianos en el siglo XXI, edited by Isabel Álvarez Sancho, Covadonga Lamar Prieto and Miriam Villazón Valbuena. Uviéu: Trabe, 2025, pp. 67-81.
- Álvarez Sancho, Isabel, Lamar Prieto, Covadonga, and Miriam Villazón Valbuena. “«Sola en mitad de la tierra»: hacia una definición de los estudios asturianos en el siglo XXI.” Estudios Asturianos en el siglo XXI, ed. by I. Álvarez Sancho, C. Lamar Prieto and M. Villazón Valbuena. Uviéu: Trabe, 2025, pp. 9-18.
- Bleorțu, Cristina, Cuevas Alonso, Miguel, Villazón Valbuena, Miriam, and Covadonga Lamar Prieto. “Lingüística e inteligencia artificial. El corpus de La Pola Siero.” Innovative Approaches to Learning. Global Advances in Sustainable, Inclusive, and Creative Education, ed. by E. de Prada-Creo et al., STAR Scholars, 2024, pp. 178-184.
- Villazón Valbuena, Miriam. "#Oficialidá: las redes sociales y el impacto glotopolítico en las lenguas minorizadas." Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages, ed. by C. Lamar Prieto and Á. González, De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 159-172. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799392-009
- Álvarez Sancho, Isabel, Lamar Prieto, Covadonga, Menéndez Fernández, Claudia Elena, and Miriam Villazón Valbuena. “Asturian: History, contemporary status, and overview of its Linguistic and cultural characteristics.” Linguistic Minorities in Europe, ed. by L. Grenoble, P. Lane and U. Røyneland. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. 10.1515/lme.24006850
- Villazón Valbuena, Miriam. “Señaldá y el fútbol de antes, la identidad futbolística de una lengua.” The Asturian language: distinctiveness, identity and officiality, ed. by A. Corral, Peter Lang, 2023, pp. 115-121. https://doi.org/10.3138/SS-2024-0042
- Villazón Valbuena, Miriam. “Voyant Tools y La Argentina manuscrita de Rui Díaz de Guzmán.” Publicaciones de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (PublicAAHD). Buenos Aires: Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales, 2021, pp. 135-140. 10.13140/RG.2.2.19342.08009