Education

• Ph.D. Candidate, Spanish Linguistics The Pennsylvania State University,
  Degree anticipated May 2009
• Dissertation: Contact Spanish: Sociolinguistic considerations and structural consequences of sustained Veneto-Spanish bilingualism in Chipilo, Mexico
• M.A., Spanish Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2005
• B.A., cum laude, Spanish/Hispanic Cultures, Juniata College, May, 2003

Professional Appointments

• Teaching Assistant, Spanish, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, The Pennsylvania State University
• Spanish 1 (Elementary Spanish), Spring 2004 and Summer 2004
• Spanish 2 (Elementary Spanish), Fall 2004 and Summer 2007
• Spanish 3 (Elementary Spanish), Spring 2005
• Spanish 110 (Intermediate Conversation), Fall 2005-Spring 2007
• Spanish 215 (Introduction to Spanish Linguistics), Spring 2008
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Comparative Literature and Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University
• Linguistics 001 (Introduction to Language), Fall 2007
• Supervisor, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, The Pennsylvania State University
• Spanish 110 (Intermediate Conversation)

Departmental Service

• Secretary, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Graduate Student Organization, 2005-2006
• Student Assistant, Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005

Book Reviews

• Linguist list review of Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, to appear

Presentations at Professional Conference

• Barnes, Hilary. 2008. Social motivations for sustained bilingualism in an Italo-Mexican community". Paper accepted at the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium, Laval University.
• Barnes, Hilary. 2008. “Subject pronoun expression in bilinguals of two null subject languages”. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium of Romance Languages, The University of Illinois.
• Barnes, Hilary; Brown, Josh; and Suárez, Eva. 2008.“Evidence for Latin ne as a complementizer”. Poster presented at the Linguistic Symposium of Romance Languages, The University of Illinois.
• Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline; Zapata, Gabriela; Suárez, Eva-María; and Barnes, Hilary. 2005. “Indeterminacy in the interpretive component”. Paper presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona.
• Barnes, Hilary; Suárez, Eva-María; and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2004. “Optionality in the interpretive component: Null and overt referential subjects in native, inter-language, and contact Spanish.” Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, The Pennsylvania State University.