Juan Carlos Barbero Bernal has been in service since May 2, 2017, as Associate Professor in scientific sector L-LIN/07 (Language and Translation - Spanish Language) at the Dipartimento di Scienze umane (Department of Human Sciences) of the University of L'Aquila. Before that, and since October 1, 2011, he has been Assistant Professor (Ricercatore Universitario) at the same department.
In 2015, he obtained the title of Dottore di Ricerca (PhD) in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies at the DIT (Department of Interpreting and Translation) of the University of Bologna, under the supervision of Prof. San Vicente. Title of dissertation: Catálogo y estudio de las gramáticas de italiano para hispanohablantes. Siglos XVIII y XIX (Catalogue and study of grammars of Italian for Spanish speakers. 18th and 19th centuries). From January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2010, he was Postdoctoral Researcher (Assegnista di Ricerca) at SITLeC (Department of Interdisciplinary Studies on Translation, Languages and Cultures), University of Bologna with a project on the Spanish/Italian contrastive study of verbs (Tutor: Prof. Capanaga). He got his Degree in Spanish Philology at the University of Salamanca (September 14, 1993).
As for his institutional work at the University of L’Aquila, since 2015, he has been Erasmus Delegate at the Department of Human Sciences and member of the Erasmus Commission of the University. At the same Department he is also member of the Commissione contratti (since academic year 2014-2015); member of the Consiglio di Area Didattica of Mediazione linguistica e culturale, Lettere and Filosofia e Teoria dei Processi Comunicativi.
He has more than 20 years of teaching experience focusing mainly on Spanish as a foreign language and, more specifically, on Spanish for Italian speakers. Currently, at the Department of Human Sciences of the University of L’Aquila, he teaches Lingua e linguistica spagnola I, Lingua e traduzione spagnola I and Lingua e traduzione spagnola II since academic year 2011/2012. Recently, in May 2017, he participated in a teaching staff Erasmus+ exchange at the University of Salamanca, invited by Prof. Gómez Asencio. He taught two seminars in the PhD course in Español: investigación avanzada en Lengua y Literatura. The two seminars were: (1) La tradición gramatical italoespañola hasta el siglo XIX: evolución, contexto, finalidades, estructura y métodos; (2) Casi veinte años de gramática contrastiva español-italiano: de Carrera Díaz a la GREIT (1997-2015).
Previously, from 2002 to 2011, he was a Collaboratore Linguistico at the University of Bologna (Forlì), with more than 4000 hours of teaching of Spanish language and of creation of printed and multimedia materials for teaching Spanish at the Language Centre of the University, the School for Interpreters and Translators and the Faculty of Political Sciences. From 1997 to 2000 he taught Spanish language and culture courses at the University of Salamanca.
One of his main work activities is very much connected to teaching: the creation of printed and online materials for teaching Spanish and Italian to Italian and Spanish speakers respectively. An example of this activity are publications for schools, such as Gramática en contraste (2018, Bermejo, Barbero, San Vicente) and for university learners, such as Contrastiva – Grammatica della lingua Spagnola (2012, Barbero, San Vicente, Bermejo) and multimedia courses of Spanish and Italian 9 Aproches (2009) and 9 Passi (2009 and 2011). His scientific activity and his research interests are also related with grammar and the teaching of Spanish and Italian as foreign languages, in this case from a historiographic point of view and with a grammaticographic and metalexicographic approach. In fact, he catalogued and studied grammars of Italian for Spanish-speakers published in the 18th and 19th centuries and he studied the main grammatical issues in Italian-Spanish bilingual dictionaries. He presented his research at international conferences held by important universities, and his publications in this field stand out for their number and quality and were reviewed at national and international level. Currently, his research activity continues in the field of grammaticography and without losing sight of lexicography, with the study of the Italian-Spanish grammar tradition of the 20th century; his research is also extending to recent times with the analysis of the verbal syntagma in Spanish-Italian grammars from 1997 to 2015.
In close connection with these two lines of research, he is participating in several projects, including the following:
- Project Pretérito perfecto simple y pretérito perfecto compuesto: historiografía, gramatización y el estado actual de la oposición en el español europeo II, led by the University of Salamanca (Spain). Project funded by the Ministerio de economía, industria y competitividad (Proyecto de I+D, Excelencia, Convocatoria 2017, FFI2017-82249-P). Duration: 48 months (January 1st 2018-2021).
- Project EPIGRAMA (Spagnolo per Italiani, Grammatiche Antiche) led by the University of Padua (project PRAT CPDA159431/15) and its Department of Language and Literary Studies (project DOR1719325/17). Duration: 48 months (2016-2019).
- Research project titled: Contrastiva: Portal de lingüística contrastiva español italiano. Director: Félix San Vicente. University: University of Bologna. Duration: 2010-today (www.contrastiva.it, within the project, he is responsible for the Bibliography of Italian-Spanish contrastive linguistics, with currently more than 1900 entries).
- PRIN 2009 Research Project titled: Norma e forme nominali del verbo nelle grammatiche di spagnolo per italofoni (1833-1997). Scientific coordinator: Giovanni Iamartino. Scientific supervisor: Félix San Vicente. University of Bologna. Start date: 17.10.2011. Duration: 24 months.
- PRIN 2007 research project titled: Le marche nella lessicografia bilingue spagnolo-italiano, italiano-spagnolo: studio di una tradizione e della sua influenza sulla norma linguistica e culturale (1870-2008). Scientific coordinator: Giovanni Iamartino. Scientific supervisor: Félix San Vicente. University of Bologna. Start date: 22.09.2008. Duration: 24 months.
- Ex 60% research project titled: "Nominales": le forme non personali nella comunicazione orale. Spagnolo e italiano a confronto. Coordinator of research group: Félix San Vicente. University of Bologna. - SITLEC (Interdisciplinary Studies on Translation, Languages and Cultures) Start date: 2005. Duration: 24 months.
- Research project titled: Hesperia: Repertorio analitico di lessicografia bilingue. Dizionari italiano-spagnolo e spagnolo-italiano. Coordinator: Félix San Vicente. University of Bologna - CLIRO. Duration: 2004-2007 [http://hesperia.cliro.unibo.it].
He has been a member of LICEI (Linguistica Contrastiva Español-Italiano) since 2006; of CIRSIL (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulla Storia degli Insegnamenti Linguistici) since 2010; of RELEX (Red de Lexicografía) of the University of La Coruña since 2014. He has been a member of AISPI (Associazione d'Ispanisti Italiani) since 2012. He has been a referee for journals Orillas (section Astilleros [Linguistics]) of the University of Padua (June/July 2017) and Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción of the Universidad Pontificia Católica de Chile (21.05.2014). He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Archipiélago, a series of language, literature and translation studies directed by Prof. Flores Requejo (since 2014).
Following the two lines of research described above, he has participated as a speaker in national and international scientific conferences, among which we find:
- XXX AISPI Conference: Continuidad, discontinuidad y nuevos paradigmas
Presentation Evolución del sistema verbal en las principales gramáticas de español para italohablantes (1997-2013), University of Turin (17.06.17).
- MetaGramma. Variazione testuale e metalinguistica nei materiali per lo studio delle lingue straniere
Presentation La terminología verbal en las gramáticas de italiano para hispanohablantes del siglo XIX, University of Bologna (09.03.16).
- II Congreso Internacional sobre la Enseñanza de la Gramática
Presentation Gramática e institucionalización de la enseñanza de la lengua italiana en la España del siglo XIX, University of Valencia (27.01.16).
- XIV Congreso Internacional de la AJIHLE
Presentation Destinatarios y finalidades de las primeras gramáticas de italiano para hispanoblantes publicadas en América, Autónoma de Madrid University (10.04.14).
- IX Congreso Internacional de la SEHL
Presentation Verbo y gramáticas de italiano para hispanohablantes: principales textos del siglo XIX, University of Córdoba (11.09.13).
- XIII Congreso Internacional de la AJIHLE
Presentation La hiperestructura de las principales gramáticas de italiano para hispanohablantes del siglo XIX, University of Salamanca (12.04.13).
- XVII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
Presentation La hiperestructura de las gramáticas de italiano para hispanohablantes del siglo XVIII, La Sapienza University of Rome (20.07.10).
- X Congreso Internacional de la AJIHLE
Presentation Modos y tiempos verbales en las gramáticas de italiano para españoles del siglo XVIII, University of Seville (16.04.10).
- Manuali: norma, ideologia, identità culturale (prospettiva diacronica)
Presentation El destinatario de las gramáticas de italiano para españoles del siglo XVIII, CIRSIL, University of Bologna (29.01.10).
- Nuclei. Studi contrastivi sul verbo spagnolo e italiano
Presentation El Verbo en las gramáticas de italiano para hispanohablantes del siglo XVIII, University of Bologna-Forlì (26.11.09).
- III Congreso Internacional de Lexicografía Hispánica
Presentation Análisis histórico-descriptivo de las abreviaturas gramaticales verbales en la lexicografía bilingüe italoespañola, University of Málaga (24.09.08).
