
California State University, Fullerton
Fosters a love for lifelong learning.
Academic Background: Ph.D., Spanish and Portuguese, New York University; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Southern California.
Research Interests: Critical sociolinguistics, language ideologies, (hyper)polyglossia, revitalization of endangered languages (focus on Ladino/Judeo-Spanish), syntax, semantics, morphology, language universals, measure words, number markers, cardinal numeral expressions.
Appointments: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, California State University, Fullerton.
Publications: Author of ‘Decolonizing Spanish: Ladino and Chavacano as Sites of Global Hispanophonia’ (TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2022); ‘Ladino on the Internet: Sepharad 4’ (Routledge, forthcoming).
Additional Contributions: Conducts fieldwork on Alasha Mongolian, rural Iberian Spanishes, and Ch’ol (Mayan); research supported by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2023-2025, award number BCS 2315167).