Position Title
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Chair
Director of the First-Year Spanish Program
Position Title
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Chair
Director of the First-Year Spanish Program
- Spanish and Portuguese
608 Sproul Hall
Bio
EDUCATION AND DEGREES
- Ph.D., Spanish Linguistics, University of Salamanca
- M.A., Literacy Studies, University of Salamanca
- M.A., Advanced Studies in Spanish Language, University of Salamanca
- B.A., Spanish Philology, University of Salamanca
ADVISEES:
- Pablo Robles García (Graduated in 2020: Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Mississauga)
- Glen Heinrich Wallace (Linguistics department / Graduated in 2020: Research scientist at Human Resources Research Organization)
- Kathleen Guerra (Graduated in 2020: Teaching Assistant Professor at Denver University)
- Lani López Bastidas (Graduated in 2023: Adjunct Spanish Professor at Solano Community College)
- César Hoyos Álvarez (Graduated in 2023: Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University)
- Diego Alíns Breda (Graduated in 2023: Assistant Professor of Instruction at University of Texas, Dallas)
- Paloma Fernández Mira
- Sophia Minnillo (Linguistics department)
- Ana Ruiz Alonso Bartol
- Ana Ortega Pérez
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Second language acquisition
- Second Language textbooks
- Second language vocabulary
- Spanish derivational morphology
- Second language Morphological awareness
- Learner corpora
- Graded readers
- Emotional processing of words
COURSES TAUGHT
- Spanish 001: Elementary Spanish (UC Davis)
- SPA 001Y Elementary Spanish (hybrid course)
- SPA 206 Spanish Syntax
- Spanish 116: Applied Linguistics (UC Davis)
- SPA 212 Applied Linguistics
- Spanish 215: Vocabulario
- Spanish 390: The Teaching of Spanish at the College Level (UC Davis)
- ESP 1002: Conversación (Laval University)
- ESP 1003: Redacción I (Laval University)
- ESP 1004: Redacción II (Laval University)
- ESP 2002: El español en el mundo (Laval University)
- ESG 1010: Español elemental 1 (Laval University)