Rate My Professor Joelle Bonamy

Dr. Joelle Bonamy serves as Department Chair and Assistant Professor in the Department of Society, Culture, and Languages within the College of Letters and Sciences at Columbus State University. She leads this newly formed department, which resulted from the reorganization of the former Department of Modern and Classical Languages, where she previously served as chair. Dr. Bonamy joined Columbus State University in August 2010 as Assistant Professor of Spanish and received tenure in 2017. She has recently been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective August 2026. Dr. Bonamy earned her Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the Romance Languages program with the Linguistics track. Her dissertation is titled Yanito Codeswitching and Language Shift in Gibraltar. Her academic interests include applied Spanish linguistics, societal language evolution, second language acquisition, and pedagogy. She manages the Konan Language Learning Center and participates in the university Chairs Assembly.