Viola Giulia Miglio

Viola Giulia Miglio is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She holds the prestigious Barandiarán Endowed Chair of Basque Studies and heads the Department's Program in Hispanic Linguistics and Phonetics Lab. Her research focuses on phonetics/phonology, language change, translation, and Basque Studies.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park (1999)

Her work spans Romance languages (Spanish, Northern Italian dialects), Icelandic, and Basque, with a particular interest in markedness and faithfulness in vowel systems. She is currently collaborating on a book about Basque whaling in 17th-century Iceland and co-authoring the Íslensk-spænsk orðabók (Icelandic-Spanish Dictionary).

Scientific Awards:

• Barandiarán Endowed Chair of Basque Studies

Prof. Miglio leads the Phonetics Lab at UCSB, where she oversees projects like a contrastive study of L2 Spanish/German vowels, typology of Romance languages, and dialectal comparisons in Spanish. She actively organizes Basque Studies courses and events through her endowed chair.