Bienvenidos! I am a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University. Currently I am teaching Spanish 002 in the Spanish Basic Language Program (SBLP) as well as taking courses in romance syntax, romance phonology, and history of Spanish.

As an undergraduate at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, I majored in Spanish and French. Before attending college I spent an academic year in Córdoba, Argentina as a Rotary Exchange Student. While in Córdoba, I lived with a host family, studied Spanish and Portuguese, sang in folk choirs, and drank mate! During college I studied abroad in Grenoble, France. After my years at Luther Colelge I spent some time in rural Mexico working on family-run organic farms building adobe structures, Mayan sweat lodges, cobblestone roads, as well as caring for gardens. After volunteering in Mexico, I worked for a year as a medical assistant and interpreter at a women's health clinic in Boulder, Colorado with Spanish-speaking patients. My hopes are to continue serving these communities through my future work.

My main research interests center around sociolinguistics themes such as sociophonetic accommodation, codeswitching, perceptual dialectology, and language attitudes in areas of language contact.

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Thursday: 10 AM -12 PM

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