I am an Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program at the University of Florida. My primary research interest is heritage speaker bilingualism. Over the past few years, my work on this topic has appeared in several scholarly journals such as Applied Linguistics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Heritage Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, and International Review of Applied Linguistics (among others).
In 2014, I founded the Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, which has since become an annual event in the field of heritage speaker bilingualism. In 2022, the symposium will be held at Florida State University. I am also the founder and Editor-in-chief of the Spanish Heritage Language journal, an international refereed journal co-published by the University of Florida Press and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida.
I write, teach, and speak widely about the relationship between (Spanish heritage) language acquisition and language change, teaching and learning, language identity and power.
For my collective efforts in teaching, research and service, I have received a number of awards. Among these, the more notable being the 2021 University of Florida-College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Teaching Award, the 2017 Texas Tech University New Faculty Award, and the 2014 National Heritage Language Resource Center - Russ Campbell Young Scholar Award.
In 2014, I founded the Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, which has since become an annual event in the field of heritage speaker bilingualism. In 2022, the symposium will be held at Florida State University. I am also the founder and Editor-in-chief of the Spanish Heritage Language journal, an international refereed journal co-published by the University of Florida Press and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida.
I write, teach, and speak widely about the relationship between (Spanish heritage) language acquisition and language change, teaching and learning, language identity and power.
For my collective efforts in teaching, research and service, I have received a number of awards. Among these, the more notable being the 2021 University of Florida-College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Teaching Award, the 2017 Texas Tech University New Faculty Award, and the 2014 National Heritage Language Resource Center - Russ Campbell Young Scholar Award.
