Teaching Activities
Teaching Activities
§ The University of Texas at Austin (2020–current)
Lower-division level
(SPN601D) First-Year Spanish I
(SPN610D) First-Year Spanish II
(SPN311D) Intermediate Spanish
(SPN327C) Advanced Grammar and Writing in Context
(SPN604) Accelerated Introduction to Spanish for Heritage Learners
(POR601D) First-Year Portuguese I
(POR610D) First-Year Portuguese II
(POR610S) Portuguese for Spanish-speakers in the U.S.
(ITL601C) Beginning Italian
(ITL611C) Intermediate Italian
Upper-division level
(SPN330L) Introduction to Spanish and Lusophone Linguistics in Society
(SPN346C) Spanish Pronunciation
(N354) Spanish for Healthcare Professionals
Graduate-division level
(ILA 386) Contact Linguistics (Teaching Assistant)
§ The Seminary of the Southwest (Austin, Texas) (2024–current)
Graduate-division level
(M1000) Latin American Literatures and Culture I
(M1001) Latin American Literatures and Culture II
(M1002) Hispanic Sociolinguistics
§ Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (Colombia) (Fall 2022)
Graduate-division level
(ML314) Afro-Hispanic Morphosyntax
§ Travis County Medical Society (Austin, Texas), “Spanish Meducation” Program (2020–2023)
(SPN101) Beginner Practical Medical Spanish
(SPN102) Intermediate Practical Medical Spanish
(SPN103) Advanced Practical Medical Spanish
§ Universidad Ana G. Méndez (Puerto Rico) (2017–2019)
Lower-division level
(ITL101) Beginner Italian
(ITL330) Introduction to Italian Linguistics / History of the Italian Language
(PTG101) Beginner Portuguese
(SPN314) Fundamentals of reading and writing in Spanish
§ Alliance Française / Società Dante Alighieri (Puerto Rico) (2014-2017)
(ITA-I) Beginner Italian
(ITA-II) Intermediate Italian
(ITA-III) Advanced and Conversational Italian
(ITA-IV) Italian Conversation and Culture
§ Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (San Juan, Puerto Rico) (2013–2016)
Lower-division level
(ITA101) Introduction to Italian
(ITA102) Intermediate Italian
(ITA103) Upper-Intermediate Italian Language and Culture
(ITA380) Introduction to Italian Linguistics / History of the Italian Language
(ITA4015) Advanced Italian–Literary Criticism & Textual Analysis
(ITA4016) Advanced Grammar and Composition in Italian
(ITA-LAB I) “Laboratorio Vivo”–Beginner Conversational Italian with native speakers
(ITA-LAB II) “Laboratorio Vivo”–Intermediate Conversational Italian with native speakers
Service / Outreach & Community Engagement
2025
Chapter Reviewer for Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS11) (‘Women’s Polar Question Intonation in Coastal Caribbean Colombian Spanish’).
Chapter Reviewer for Forma y Función (‘Hibridación de lenguas en el léxico cajacho’).
Session Chair at the 29th Conference of Spanish in the United States & 14th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages (University of Texas–San Antonio) (session on morphosyntax).
Graduate Recruitment for Applied Linguistic Position at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of Texas–Austin).
Conference Abstract Reviewer (x3) for the 29th Conference of Spanish in the United States & 14th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages (University of Texas–San Antonio).
Organizer of the XXVI Graduate Colloquium of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (The University of Texas–Austin).
2024
Organizer & Facilitator, Language Conversation Tables. “La Tavola Italiana” (Italian) (The University of Texas–Austin).
Chapter Reviewer for Language Science Press (‘Linguistic Dynamics in Heritage Speakers’).
Chapter Reviewer for Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics (‘Gender and coda /s/ in the speech of Cordobese teenagers’).
Chapter Reviewer for Language Science Press (‘Segmental and prosodic influences on Bolognese epenthesis’).
Conference Abstract Reviewer (x5) for the 2024 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS) University of Nebraska–Omaha.
Panel organizer for LASA 2024 (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia) (Caribbean Spanish culture and linguistics panel).
Session Chair at the 11th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS11) (The State University of New York (SUNY) –Buffalo) (session on Puerto Rican Spanish).
Conference Abstract Reviewer (x2) for the 11th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS11) (The State University of New York (SUNY) –Buffalo).
Conference Abstract Reviewer for the 31st Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Student Conference (The University of Texas–Austin).
2023
Chapter Reviewer for Language Science Press (‘Language contact in Puerto Rico: Documenting an emerging variety of English’).
Member of Pterodáctilo, online magazine of art, literature, linguistics, and culture (The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas–Austin).
Session Chair at the XXV Biennial Graduate Colloquium of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (The University of Texas–Austin) (session on Spanish sociolinguistics).
2022
Organizer & Facilitator, Language Conversation Tables. “Bate Papo” (Portuguese) (The University of Texas–Austin).
Session Chair at the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) (University of Murcia, Spain) (session on Hispanic historical sociolinguistics).
Panel organizer for GURT 2022 (Georgetown University, Washington DC) (dialect contact panel).
2021
Assistant Instructors Representative (The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas–Austin).
Session Chair at the 24th Biennial Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Colloquium (The University of Texas–Austin) (session on sociolinguistics).
2019
Organizer & Facilitator, Language Conversation Tables. “Cafecito” (Spanish) (The University of Texas–Austin)
Professional Affiliations
MLA Modern Language Association
AATSP Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
AAAL American Association for Applied Linguistics
NAMS National Association of Medical Spanish
LASA Latin American Studies Association
LSA Linguistic Society of America
LASSO Linguistic Society of the Southwest
ALFAL Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina
AIH/AHILA Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas / Asociación de Hispanistas de América
NHLRC National Heritage Language Resource Center
SCL Society of Caribbean Linguistics
SPCL Society of Pidgins and Creole Languages
ACH Association of Caribbean Historians
SLE The Societas Linguistica Europaea