Otto Zwartjes (CV)

Curriculum vitae

Employment

1980     Teacher Latin and Greek (Ir. Lely Lyceum, Amsterdam)

1987-1988     Universidad Complutense de Madrid (research grant "Ministerio de Asuntos exteriores/ dirección de intercambios"). 

1989-1991     Teacher Spanish MEAO/MTRO, "Volksuniversiteiten"    

1991-1995     Ph.D. Grant NWO/ “Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen” Department of Middle East Studies and Department of Spanish. Ph.D. Dissertation: 1995 (KUN).  

1991-1998     Assistant Professor Spanish (Language, Literature of the Golden Age, History and Culture, Translation and Language acquisition).

1997-1998     Post-doc researcher University of Nijmegen (TCMO, KUN). Title project: Pedro de Alcalá's grammar of Arabic (1505) and the pioneer grammars of Amerindian Languages).

1998-2003      Full Professor University of Oslo (UiO) (Chair Spanish Linguistics and Linguistic Theory)  

2003-2007      Assistant Professor/ (UD) University of Amsterdam

 

2007- ....          Associate Professor (UHD; Profesor titular). University of Amsterdam (Spanish Language and Linguistics)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012. .... " Investigador colaborador” do “Centro de Estudos em Letras”, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal.

2011 - Invited as visiting scholar (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UNAM, Mexico City and Guadalajara, Jalisco)

2010 - Invited as "eminent scholar" by the Japan Society for the promotion of Science" (JSPS), "Invitational Training Program for Advanced Japanese Research Institutes". Host Institute: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)/ Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).

2007-2008 Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS, Wassenaar) of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/ Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen)

2002-2007 Project coordinator: "OsProMil" (Oslo Project on Missionary Linguistics), (University of Oslo).

2005- present: Project coordinator: Revitalising Older Linguistic Documentation (ROLD)

Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1958. “Kandidaatsexamen” (BA) Spanish Language and Linguistics, 1985 (University of Amsterdam) and MA in the “History of Spanish” and “minors” in Portuguese and Classical Arabic (University of Amsterdam, 1986, “cum laude”).

 

Visiting scholar, guest-lectures: (invited) 
Göteborg Universitet, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Rhode IslandCollege (Providence), Universität Basel, Universität Zürich, CIESAS (Mexico), UNAM (Mexico-Acatlan), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universidad de Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

 

Papers at international conferences:
Alcalá de Henares, Amsterdam, Antwerp, São Salvador de Bahia, Berlin, Bielefeld, Campinas, Gent, Hong Kong, Kalamazoo (Michigan, USA), London, Macau, Madrid, Mérida (Yucatán, México), Murcia, Nijmegen, Oslo, Paris, Potsdam, Quito, Rio de Janeiro, Saint Petersburg (Russia), Rio de Janeiro, Salamanca, San José (Costa Rica), Saõ Paulo, Stockholm, Taipei, Tétouan, Tokyo, Valencia, Valladolid, Vigo.

Coordination of research-projects
Coordinator of the project NFR-project: “OsProMil” (Norges Forskningsråd, “Oslo Project on Missionary Linguistics”). Co-organiser ofinternational conferences in Oslo, São Paulo, Hong Kong/ Macau, Valladolid, Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico), and Tokyo (2003-2009). Next Conference: Bremen (Germany, March 2012) 
Coordinator of the ACLC-project: “Revitalizing older linguistic documentation (with Norval Smith) and the subproject LETERLING (dictionary of grammatical terminology), with José Antonio Flores Farfan (CIESAS) and Cristina Altman (Sao Paulo, Brazil).

ACLC (Amsterdam Center of Languageand Communication)

International Research Environment for missionaryLingustics (TUFS/ Japan)

Membership of editorial boards

General editor of the series “Lingüística misionera” (Vervuert/Iberoamericana: Frankfurt am Main/Madrid).

Member of the editorial boards of:

-Amsterdam Studies in theTheory and Historyof Linguistic Science/ Series "Studies in the History of the Language Sciences" (John Benjamins)

-Historiographia Linguistica (John Benjamins)

-Revista Internacional de Ling üística Iberoamericana (RILI) (Vervuert/ Iberoamericana)

-Revista do GEL (Grupo de Estudos Lingüísticos do Estado de São Paulo)

-UniverSOS (Revista de Lenguas Indígenas y Universos Culturales).

Historiographia Linguistica

Vervuert Verlag

UniverSOS

Studies in the History of the Language Sciences (John Benjamins)

Revista do GEL

Exposition in Medellín, Colombia (Paradigmas de la palabra)

One chapter of the catalogue is written by Otto Zwartjes and deals with missionary grammars from  Brazil, Argentine, Paraguay and Chile   during the colonial period. Museo de Antiochia, Medellín, Colombia, and Museo Nacional de Historia Castillo de Chapultepec, Mexico,
July 25th- Octobre 14th 2007. (with  95.000 visitors).

Text is available on: 

Paradigmas de la palabra (Medellín, + Mexico)

CIESAS

IVALCA

CEDOCH

NIAS. Meijboomlaan 1. 2242 PR Wassenaar

Fellowship2007-2008

January -March 2009

January-June 2010

NIAS, Wassenaar

NIAS project