Assistant Professor of Spanish
Email: bgoodale@uttyler.edu
Building: CAS 245
Department: Literature And Languages
Brandon Goodale
Biography
Degrees
B.A., Spanish (Language & Culture). California State University–Northridge 2015
M.A., Spanish (Linguistics). University of Wisconsin–Madison 2017
Ph.D. Spanish (Linguistics). University of Wisconsin–Madison 2024
Brandon Goodale, Assistant Professor of Spanish, specializes in Spanish Phonetics and Phonology. His primary research interests center on the Spanish varieties of the Southern Cone region of South America, where he primarily works on phonetic and phonological variation, specifically in prosody. His secondary research interests include L2 Spanish phonetics and phonology. He has published a chapter on the effects of a Spanish language house on L2 phonology and is working to publish articles related to his dissertation titled Variation in the Intonation of Uruguayan Spanish Declaratives. As a Fulbrighter to Uruguay in 2022, he created the Voces de Uruguay Linguistic Corpus (VULC) consisting of audio recordings of 533 Uruguayan adults.
He has taught many courses, including Regular and Accelerated Elementary and Intermediate Spanish, Spanish Composition, and Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics.
In Summer 2025, he is teaching ENGL 4376 Introduction to Linguistics and ENGL 5380 Advanced Grammar and Linguistics. In Fall 2025, he is offering a new Spanish for the Professions course, taught first as SPAN 4380 Topics in Spanish. In Summer 2026, he is leading a Study Abroad trip to Peru for UT Tyler students. He is also currently working with UT Tyler students to create the Spanish Club and serve as its Faculty Advisor.
Selected Publications:
Goodale, Brandon J., Rao, Rajiv, Lares, Erwin. The effects of a Spanish language house on L2 phonology: A longitudinal study of Spanish /bdɡ/. Spanish as a second and third language: approaching the linguistics-didactics interface. (ed. by Jonas Grünke, Andrea Pesková & Christoph Gabriel). 2024. pp. 91-118.