Contact information: actremblay@utep.edu
Dr. Tremblay received her M.A. in Spanish from the University of Ottawa (Canada) in 2002 and her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Hawai'i in 2007. She worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of French at the University of Illinois (2007-2012), as Associate Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Kansas (2012-2022), and as Professor and (since 2023) Chair in the Department of Chicano Studies, Languages, and Linguistics at UTEP (2022–present). She specializes in adult bilingual speech perception and processing, and has some interests in adult bilingual morphological processing and speech production. She is originally from Québec, Canada, and speaks Spanish fluently.
Contact information: cecoughlin@utep.edu
Dr. Coughlin received her M.A. in French Language Learning in 2011 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2016 at the University of Kansas. Her work in bilingual language processing focuses on morphological processing, speech segmentation, and the cognitive factors that affect bilingual language processing. She grew up in New York and in the suburbs of Chicago.
Contact information: nmazzaro@utep.edu
Dr. Mazzaro received her M.A. in Linguistics in 2003 at York University (Canada) and her Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics in 2011 at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on speech perception and production in Spanish-English bilinguals, sound change in Mexican Spanish, and the Linguistic Landscape of the U.S.-Mexico border. She is originally from Argentina.
Contact information: amnunez10@miners.utep.edu
Ms. Núñez got her BA in Linguistics in 2018 from the University of Texas at Austin and her MA in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2024. Her master’s thesis was on the interaction between phonology and orthography in the production of Spanish Heritage speakers in the Mexican-U.S. border area. She was born in El Paso though she spent the first ten years of her life in Cd. Juárez, Chih. México.
Contact information: fsterrazas@miners.utep.edu
Ms. Terrazas earned her Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, with a minor in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2022. She is now in her second semester as a graduate student in the Bilingualism and Applied Linguistics M.A. program.
Ms. Natalia Minjarez-Oppenheimer