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1. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies / Fields of Study / Departments / literary studies, romance studies and latin

Linguistik der romanischen Sprachen mit Schwerpunkt auf postkolonialen Sprachökologien

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miguel.gutierrez@uni-bielefeld.de  
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+49 521 106-82112  
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+49 521 106-3662 − Secretary's Details
Office
UHG M7-101 − Locations Map
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Tu. 4-5 p.m. (and by appointment)

 
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Curriculum Vitae

Career path : Valladolid > Munich > Erlangen > Irvine (California) > Erlangen > Augsburg > Freiburg > Bielefeld

• since 01.04.2026 Chair of Romance Linguistics at the University of Bielefeld

• 1.10.2025-31.3.2026 Temporary Full Professorship (Professurvertretung) of Romance Linguistics (French/Spanish) at the University of Freiburg

• 01.04.2018-30.09.2025: Associate Professor ( Akademischer (Ober)Rat auf Zeit , 100%) at the Chair of Applied Romance Linguistics of the University of Augsburg (Prof. Dr. Joachim Steffen). Habilitation Thesis.
- Habilitationsschrift: ROMANIA BANTU. The restructuring of Ibero-Romance in contact with Kikongo: A comparison of Palenquero Creole (Colombia) and Cabindan Portuguese (Angola).
Habilitation Advisory Committee ( Fachmentorat ): Joachim Steffen (Augsburg), Alfred Wildfeuer (Augsburg), Tom Güldemann (HU Berlin); additional external evaluation: Nicolas Quint (CNRS, France)
- Habilitationsvortrag : Das Batavia/Tugu-Kreol (Indonesien) heute

• 01.04.2016-31.03.2018: Assistant Professor (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) at the Institute of Romance Philology of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

• 01.10.2015–31.03.2016: PostDoc (full) position (Wiss. Mitarbeiter / eigene Stelle 100%) funded by the programme P.R.I.M.E. (DAAD + Marie Curie: http://www.daad.de/prime), “reintegration phase” at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (advisor: Silke Jansen).

• 01.10.2014–30.09.2015: PostDoc (full) position (Wiss. Mitarbeiter / eigene Stelle 100%) funded by the programme P.R.I.M.E. (DAAD + Marie Curie: http://www.daad.de/prime), “period abroad” at the University of California at Irvine (advisor: Armin Schwegler).
PostDoc project (P.R.I.M.E.): The History of Languages in Constant Interaction: the Case of Long-Time Bilingualism between Romance Vernaculars and Romance-Based Creoles

• 20.02.2013: PhD in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Valladolid (Apto CL: best grade according to the Spanish Univ. system).
- PhD Thesis : Pronombres personales sujeto en el español del Caribe. Variación e historia / Subjektpersonalpronomina im karibischen Spanisch. Variation und Geschichte
Advisor: Micaela Carrera (Valladolid). Evaluation committee: Wulf Oesterreicher (LMU Munich), Andreas Dufter (LMU Munich), Teresa Solias (Valladolid), M. T. García Godoy (Granada), Mercedes Sedano (Caracas).

• 01.10.2010–30.09.2014: Assistant Professor ( Wiss. Mitarbeiter ) at the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

• 01.10.2009–31.03.2010: DAAD scholarship holder ( Stipendium zur wissenschaftlichen Aus- und Fortbildung ) and lecturer ( Lehrbeauftragter ) at the Institute of Romance Philology at the LMU Munich.

• 01.09.2008–31.12.2008: Research stay funded by the exchange program of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science at the Institute of Romance Philology at the LMU Munich.

• 01.04.2007–31.03.2009: Assistant Professor at the Department of Spanish and General Linguistics at the University of Valladolid (Spain)

• 02.02.2007: Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (M.A.-equivalent) in Spanish Linguistics (specialization in Discourse Analysis) from the University of Valladolid (Spain).

• 2004–2005: Traineeship for secondary education ( C.A.P. , Referendariat).

• 1999–2004: University studies in Spanish Philology (specialization in Spanish Linguistics) at the University of Valladolid (Spain). Courses with Profs. Micaela Carrera, Rosa M. Espinosa, Germán de Granda, Emilio Ridruejo, among others. Also completed coursework in General Linguistics, French, and Latin.

• 1986–1999: Primary and secondary education at the private school Colegio Marista Castilla (Palencia) (specialized in Humanities). Awarded with a Matrícula de Honor .

Current research topics

The chair’s research lines include both the sociolinguistic characterization and the structural description of Romance varieties spoken in monolingual or, more frequently, multilingual ecologies that emerged from processes of decolonization.
Thus, diverse realities of the so-called Global South are examined, taking into account their specific features from a comparative perspective, with particular emphasis on Latin America (especially the Caribbean and Brazil), Central Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea), and Southeast Asia (particularly Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia).
The spirit of the chair is comprehensive and inclusive, not only because of the thematic breadth outlined above, but also due to its intrinsically interdisciplinary nature (since “linguistic ecology” involves studying language in relation to sociological, demographic, attitudinal, and other factors) and the inherently relational and comparative nature of the “postcolonial” (which requires, on the one hand, a deep linguistic understanding of colonial history and, on the other, of current relations between Europe —the former colonial “metropolises”— and the countries of the Global South).
The chair’s more recent publications focus primarily on the continuities and discontinuities in the development of Creole languages and other restructured varieties in these regions, as well as on the management of multilingual repertoires in the context of South–South migration processes.

Memberships and Functions

Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL). https://mundoalfal.org/
Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola (ACBLPE). https://www.acblpe.com/ (im Vorstand seit 2019)
Deutscher Hispanistikverband. https://hispanistica.de/
Deutscher Lusitanistenverband. https://lusitanistenverband.de/
Deutscher Romanistikverband. https://www.deutscher-romanistikverband.de/