Department
English and Languages
College
Arts and Sciences
Start Year at LSUS
2023
Terminal Degree/Yr
PhD/2023
Office Location
BH 258

Degrees

Research Interests

  1. Sociolinguistics: Style, agency, political discourse, sociophonetics, usage-based approaches, and bilingualism
  2. Phonetics & phonology: Sociophonetics, affricates, Andalusian Spanish, Caribbean Spanish
  3. Second language acquisition & bilingualism: L2 acquisition of Spanish and English, socio-pragmatic competence, acquisition of phonetic boundaries, code-switching

Teaching Assignments

ENGL 301 Introduction to Linguistics

ENGL 400 The History of the English Language

SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I

SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish II

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I

SPAN 301 Phonetics and Conversation