Teaching

(post-2009)*

Awards

2022 Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award. University of Alberta.

University Courses (** = new course developed; * = course redesigned)

University of Alberta, Department of Linguistics

Regular courses

  • *LING 324/224 Endangered Languages (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2022)

  • **LING 399/499/599/362 Language Documentation: Theory and Practice. (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2022)

  • *LING 501 Research Seminar (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021)

  • LING 101 Introduction to Linguistics (Winter 2019)

  • *LING 515 Field Methods (Winter 2020, Winter 2021)

  • *LING 608 (Graduate) Morphology (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

Directed Studies and Reading Courses

  • **LING 399 Language Documentation and Archiving. (Reading course) (Winter 2018)

  • **LING 499 Text Collections: Past and Present. (Reading course) (Fall 2019)

  • **LING 399 Best Practices in Language Documentation. (Reading course) (Winter 2019)

  • LING 375 Linguistics Directed Research I. (Research practicum) (Winter 2019, Fall 2019)

  • **LING 399 Sounds in Language Documentation and Revitalization. (Reading course) (Winter 2021) — Language of Focus: Stoney Nakoda

  • **LING 399 Oral Annotation in Language Documentation. (Reading course) (Winter 2021) — Language of Focus: Northwestern Ojibwa

  • **LING 460 Practicum in Language Documentation and Revitalization (Spring 2021, Winter 2022)

  • **LING 694 General Papers II “Remote Collaborative Language Documentation” (Winter 2021)

The University of British Columbia, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program

  • **FNEL 483/489 Indigenous Languages of BC: Diversity and Vitality, Winter 2016, Summer 2017

McMaster University, Department of Linguistics & Languages.

  • LING 4XL3 The Structure of Amazonian Languages, Winter 2014

The University of Western Ontario, Department of French Studies

  • FR 1010 Intermediate French (Instructor), 2009-2010, 2011-2012

  • FR 1010 Intermediate French & FR 1002 Beginner French (Teaching Assistant), 2010-2011

Workshops

Canadian Linguistics Association

  • Support Your Linguistics Research with Data Management Planning!, November 2021 (with James Doiron, UofA)

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

  • SayMore: Organización, procesamiento y archivado, May 2019

Universidad Central de Venezuela, School of Anthropology

  • La estructura de las lenguas amazónicas, March 2017

CoLang: Institute on Collaborative Language Research

  • Life in Communities, CoLang 2016, University of Alaska at Fairbanks (co-instructor with Spike Gildea), June 2016

  • Personal Well-being in Minority Language Communities, CoLang 2014, The University of Texas at Arlington (co-instructor with Spike Gildea, 2-hour workshop), June 2014

  • Life in Communities, CoLang 2014, The University of Texas at Arlington (co-instructor with Spike Gildea and Lise Dobrin x 2 sections), June 2014

Invited Guest Lectures

  • LIN302H1-S South American Indigenous Languages. Lecture "Documenting Arutani and Sapé, two isolates of Venezuela (and Brazil)". Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Winter 2022

  • LING 360 Languages of the Americas. Lecture "Amazonian areal features in Saliban grammar". Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Winter 2020

  • LING 204 English Syntax. Lecture "Alignment in Mako, an Amazonian language". Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Fall 2017

  • LING 319 Historical Linguistics. Lecture "Is Jodï a Sáliban language?". Department of Linguistics, The University of British Columbia, Winter 2016

  • HUM 101 Lecture “Language Diversity at Risk”. Faculty of Arts Community Program Humanities 101, The University of British Columbia, Fall 2015

* I taught extensively in Cuba both at the high-school and the university levels, primarily in the area of foreign languages and literature. For more info, see my CV.