Diana Galarreta-Aima is an Associate Professor of Spanish, and the coordinator of the minor in Medical Spanish. Her current research focuses on language policies affecting the health of the Spanish-speaking community in the US, and on community service-learning for Spanish Heritage learners. Her most recent line of research is on development and evaluation of Medical Spanish education at the undergraduate level. Dr. Galarreta-Aima's research has appeared in the Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the  Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, and other peer-reviewed journals and non academic journals. Dr. Galarreta-Aima is currently preparing a new textbook on Medical Spanish, Intermediate Medical Spanish: a Healthcare Guide for the Latino Patient, that will be published in Fall of 2021.

Curriculum Vitae

Andrea, N., Galarreta-Aima, Diana, and Miller De Rutte, Alyssia (2024). “Undergraduate Medical Spanish: The Role of Assessment in Teaching and Learning.” Global Business Languages, 24, 51-69. Available at (DOI): https://doi.org/10.4079/gbl.v24.4

De Rutté, A.M., Galarreta-Aima, D., & Nate, A. (2024). Assessment in Medical Spanish: Challenges and Ideas. Hispania 107(1), 35-42. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2024.a921459.

Galarreta-Aima, Diana, “Los retos de la evaluación en la educación del español médico a nivel de pregrado.” MIFLC Review, vol. 21, 2022, pp. 54–73.

Martinez Gonzalez, Andrea, Tobias Reynolds-Tylus, Diana Galarreta-Aima, and Carlos Aleman. 2022. “COVID-19 Beliefs Among Hispanic and Latinx Virginians: An Application of the Health Belief Model.” Frontiers in Communication 7. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2022.876656.

J. Lang-Rigal, D. Galarreta-Aima (2019),  Improving Students’ Confidence in Speaking a Second Language: Using TalkAbroad [Video Conference with Native Speakers] in Spanish Courses.  ICERI2019 Proceedings, pp. 1744-1753

Galarreta-Aima, Diana, “Desmembramiento del cuerpo social y familiar, y la construcción de la incipiente identidad nacional española en el ‘Quijote’ de 1615: Ricote y Ana Félix: extirpación de miembros infecciosos.” Miríada Hispánica, no. 16, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Homenaje a la profesora Alison Weber), pp. 47-60.
http://www.miriadahispanica.com/revista/353e3bb843519c9bc57327941dfe76427d715f69.pdf

Galarreta-Aima, Diana, “El problema morisco y la retórica de la infección corporal en “La historia del cautivo”." Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: vol. 42, no.2  (2017), 26-44. https://asphs.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/El-problema-morisco-en-_La-historia-del-cautivo.pdf

Galarreta-Aima, Diana, “Renegados cervantinos como personajes oximorónicos: travestismos culturales y amistades heterodoxas.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies: vol. 94, no. 9 (2017), 1449-1473. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14753820.2017.1401374 

Galarreta-Aima, Diana, “Anotaciones sobre Viaje de Turquia.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies vol. 93, no.3 (2016): 235-255. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/bhs.2016.15 

Galarreta-Aima, Diana, “Topografía e historia general de Argel: testimonio de un cautivo desde el otro lado del Mediterráneo.” eHumanista, vol. 30 (2015): 260-274. https://www.academia.edu/10250969/Topograf%C3%ADa_e_historia_general_de_Argel_testimonio_de_un_cautivo_desde_el_otro_lado_del_Mediterr%C3%A1neo 

Galarreta-Aima, Diana, “El tiempo en La Celestina: el deseo, el placer y el egoísmo como motivos de interpretación de la obra.” Celestinesca, no. 35 (2011): 43-66.
https://parnaseo.uv.es/Celestinesca/Celestinesca35/02_Galarreta_Diana.pdf