Ana Romañach Álvarez is a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish and Language Science in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at Penn State. She previously completed a B.A. in English from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez and an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her research interests include bilingualism, psycholinguistics, and Spanish-English codeswitching. Current research projects are focused on switch costs and the comprehension processes of mixed Spanish-English verb phrases across different bilingual communities. In her free time, Ana is usually reading, cooking, or spending time with friends and family.

✉️ Email: asr5724@psu.edu 

📍Office: 47 Burrowes, Cubicle 3

Marina Sartor is a graduate student in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at Penn State University. She graduated in Intercultural and Interlinguistic Mediation from Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in Como, Italy. During her undergraduate studies, she taught Italian language and culture at a school for Chinese immigrants, an experience that sparked her interest in second language acquisition from both a teaching and research perspective. At Penn State, her research focuses on Hispanic Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Psycholinguistics with a focus on grammatical gender and learning mechanism. Current research includes eye-tracking experiments on prediction in Italian and the learning of Spanish as second language. She plans to further expand her research using event-related potentials/ERP to explore how English speakers acquire Spanish as a second language. 

✉️ Email: mfs6701@psu.edu 

📍Office: 47 Burrowes, Cubicle 7

Kevin is a PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics and Language Science at Penn State. He holds a Bachelor of Education from the Universidad Católica de Temuco, a Master of Arts in Languages and Cultures from Texas Tech University, and a Master of Arts in Hispanic Linguistics from Penn State. He works with Mapuche bilingual communities in Chile, exploring how diverse linguistic experiences inform processing strategies. His work contributes to a more accurate and empirically grounded understanding of Indigenous bilingualism. 

✉️ Email: kaa6044@psu.edu 

📍Office: 47 Burrowes, Cubicle 4