Contact Information
LCLB-4034
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
Fall 2023:
Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 pm in LCLB-4034
By Appointment
Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 pm in LCLB-4034
By Appointment
Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Research Interests
- Puerto Rican Spanish
- [ser/estar + ADJ], [ser/estar + FP]
- Reggaetón
- Sociolinguistics
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Semiotics of Protest
- Code-switching
- Q'anjob'al
- Quechua
- Language Preservation (esp. Borikenaíki/Taíno Language Reconstruction)
Education
- PhD, Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in progress
- MA, Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022
- BA, Foreign Languages and Cultures: Spanish, Western Illinois University, 2018
- Internship, Puerto Rico, 2018
Awards and Honors
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (*Outstanding) | Fall 2020, Spring 2021*, Fall 2021*, Spring 2022, Fall 2022*, Spring 2023
- UIUC Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Summer Fellowship | Summer 2021
Courses Taught
- SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community / Spring 2023
- SPAN 228: Spanish Composition / Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- SPAN 142: Spanish in the Professions / Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022
- SPAN 130: Intermediate Spanish / Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- SPAN 122: Intensive Elementary Spanish / Fall 2020
- SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II / Fall 2023
- SPAN 101: Elementary Spanish I / Fall 2023