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.