About Our Faculty
Borders & Languages

Areas of expertise

• U.S. Latina/o Literature
• Chicana/o Studies
• Women's and Gender studies
• Spanish for Second Language Learners 
• Spanish for Heritage Speakers

Education

• Ph.D., in Spanish, with subspecialties in US Latino/a and Latin American Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Houston, 2016
• Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Houston, 2014
• M.A., Spanish Latin American Literature, University of Texas-Pan American, 2009
• B.A., Spanish, University of Texas-Pan American, 2007

Expertise

• Spanish
• Linguistics
• Teaching diverse students
• Discourse analysis
• Creative Writing

Education

• Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Florida, 2014
• M.A., Hispanic Linguistics, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Colombia, 2006
• B.A., Comparative Literature, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 2003

Areas of expertise

• Sociolinguistics
• Minority/hegemonic language contact
• Language attitudes and ideologies
• Language acquisition
• Language pedagogy
• Adult literacy and language learning
• Heritage languages
• Phonetics/phonology
• Dialectology
• Spanish in New Mexico
• Statistics
• Languages of research agenda: Spanish, Tu’un Savi (Mixteco), English, Spanglish, French, Franglais, Italian, Veneto

Education

• Hispanic Linguistics Ph. D., University of New Mexico, ABD (all but dissertation), set to defend in spring of 2023
• Spanish Linguistics M. A., University of Florida, 2012
• Spanish-American Literature M. A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2002
• Physics B. Sc., Universidad de las Americas – Puebla, Mexico, 1998

Areas of expertise

• Hispanic Studies 
• Monsters in Literature and film
• Criminology 
• Critical Theory
• Spanish for the Professions 
• Creative Writing 
• Early Modern Spanish and Colonial Literature 

Education

• Ph.D., in Spanish Literature, University of Florida
• M.A., in Spanish, University of Florida
• Lawyer, Universidad de San Buenaventura (Colombia)