Publications

Published 

Doctoral disseration:"Reflexivity and Local Meaning-Making: A Critical Sociocultural Linguistics Literacy (CriSoLL) Approach to Authentic Materials in Higher Education Spanish Language Instruction"

Holguín Mendoza, C., Higby, E., Venegas, M., & Boyero Agudo, L. (2024). “California Spanish as ‘non-existent’: Spanish language ideologies within the Latinx community.” In M. Barbosa and T. Bugel (Eds.), Language attitudes and the pursuit of social justice. Taylor & Francis. DOI: 10.4324/9781003462736-13. 

Venegas, M. & Leonard, W.Y. (2023). “Engaging Indigenous language learning through relational accountability: A commentary on ‘Undoing competence: coloniality, homogeneity, and the overrepresentation of whiteness in applied linguistics.’” Language Learning 73(S2), 333-336. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12535  

Invited Book Reviews

Venegas, M. (2024). Review of Spanish So White: Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of a ‘Foreign’ Language Education by Adam Schwartz. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. DOI:10.1111/jola.12426

Under Review

Holguín Mendoza, C., Castro Caballero, M.A., Venegas, M., & Mendoza Casanova, C.R. “What deaf culture and epistemologies bring to critical language education in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.”

Holguín Mendoza, C., Venegas, M., Jiménez Valderrama, M.T., Sánchez Walker, N. “Tejiendo conocimiento y reflexión a partir de las relaciones y experiencias: Next chapter in Spanish critical research and praxis.”

Previous projects

LatCrit Sociocultural Linguistics Lab (LCSLL): As part of the $2.9 million grant awarded to Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza and Dr. Alfonso Gonzales Toribio at UCR, I participate in the "Inclusive Pedagogies for Critical Sociocultural Linguistic Literacy" team which involves dismantling the systemic racism embedded in curricula and and testing policies.

Bilingual Native Perception Study: I am a research assistant with PIs Claudia Holguín Mendoza and Eve Higby involving a mixed-methods study that investigates bilingual speakers' sociolinguistic attitudes to uncover speakers' awareness of different categories of stigmatization of the Southern California variety of Spanish.

Classroom Materials for d/Deaf Students in the Border of Mexico and US: I am part of the research team involved in the creation of classroom materials using critical pedagogies for d/Deaf students at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexicali, Mexico. This project is funded by the UC-Mexus-CONACYT Collaborative Grant awarded to Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza and Dr. María Angélica Castro Caballero.   

Recent research presentations

“Beyond CLA: Critical Sociocultural Linguistics Literacy (CriSoLL) for Antiracist Language Education and Research” (with Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Luzma Ede-Hernandez, Noelia Sánchez-Walker, and María Jimenez). American Association for Applied Linguistics 2025 Conference Colloquium. Primary Presenter. 

“California Spanish as ‘Non-Existent’: Spanish Language Ideologies within the Latinx Community. (With Claudia Holguín Mendoza and Eve Higby). California Spanish Conference.

“California Spanish as ‘Non-Existent’: Verbal Hygiene and Erasure Ideologies within the Latinx Community.” with Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Eve Higby, Lara Boyero Agudo, Zaira Vidal Cortes. 3rd International Symposium on Language Attitudes towards Portuguese, Spanish, and Related Languages

Workshop: "El lenguaje inclusivo: Critical Sociocultural Linguistic Literacy as a Means of Dismantling Language Hierarchies in the Spanish Language Classroom" with Lara Boyero and Cristina Sanchez. UCR Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Conference

"Authentic Materials for Language Learning: A Critical Antiracist Approach," UCR Center for Ideas and Society Faculty Commons Graduate Student Research Conference

"Perceptions of English Borrowings and Stigmatized Phrases among Heritage Speakers of Spanish" with Eve Higby, Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Lara Boyero, and Zaira Vidal, Thirteenth Heritage Language Virtual Research Institute

"Categories of Stigmatization: Style, Awareness, and Agency among Speakers of Spanish as a Heritage Language" with Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Eve Higby, Lara Boyero, and Zaira Vidal, 8th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language