About me
I am an Associate Professor of Indigenous Languages Sustainability and Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta. From January to June 2023, I held a Fulbright Canada Research Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
My research focuses primarily on language documentation, description and revitalization of Indigenous languages in the Americas, especially those of the Northwest Amazon and the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. I also specialize in morphosyntax and historical-comparative linguistics.
Contact info:
Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta4-32 Assiniboia HallEdmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2E7Email: jrosesla AT ualberta (.) ca Telephone number: 1-780-492-5698POSITIONS
Sep 2017 – present
Associate Professor (with tenure) in Indigenous Languages Sustainability, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta (effective July 1, 2022)
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Languages Sustainability, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
Sep 2015 – Aug 2017
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow and Honorary Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, The University of British Columbia
OTHER AFFILIATIONS
2019 -
Affiliate. UBC Language Sciences Initiative. The University of British Columbia
2015 – 2017
Associate Researcher, Área de linguística, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil
2012 – 2017
Associate Researcher, Department of Linguistics and Anthropological Linguistics, Universidad Central de Venezuela
POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION
Jan 2010 – Apr 2015
PhD in French Studies (Linguistics) & Docteur en Sciences du Langage, The University of Western Ontario & Université Lumière-Lyon 2
Dissertation Title: The Mako Language: Vitality, Grammar and Classification (available at http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2851/; 2015 Mary R. Haas Award from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America)
Sep 2009 – Dec 2009
MA in French Studies (Linguistics), The University of Western Ontario (Direct transfer to PhD program in January 2010)
UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
Sep 2001 – Jun 2007
Honours BA in English Language with French, University of Holguín “Oscar Lucero Moya”