Curriculum Vitae
Experience
Associate Chair
Department of Spanish and Italian, Wake Forest University 2019-2022
Program Director
Interdisciplinary Linguistics Minor, Wake Forest University 2016-2019
Associate Professor
Department of Romance Languages, Wake Forest University 2015-present
Research Consultant
Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland 2012-2013
Assistant Professor
Department of Romance Languages, Wake Forest University 2009-2015
Research Assistant
National Science Foundation ADVANCE program, University of Arizona 2008-2009
Graduate Instructor
Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona 2008
Research Assistant
PsyCol Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory, University of Arizona 2007-2008
Intructional Technology Liason
College of Humanities Instructional Computing, University of Arizona 2005-2008
Graduate Instructor
Department of Spanish & Portuguese / Linguistics, University of Arizona 2001-2007
Translator/ Bilingual Liason
English-Spanish, Amphitheater Public Schools, Tucson, Arizona 1999-2000
English as a Second Language Instructor
Barcelona, Spain 1998-1999
Education
PhD Linguistics & Cognitive Science 2004-2009
University of Arizona
Co-chairs: Janet Nicol & Simin Karimi
Dissertation: Experimental Syntax: exploring the effect of repeated exposure to anomalous syntactic structure – evidence from rating and reading tasks. [link]
MA Hispanic Linguistics 2001-2004
University of Arizona
Chair: Antxon Olarrea
Thesis: Adjective small clauses and free-word order in Spanish [link]
Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) 1998
University of Cambridge
BA History 1996-1998
University of Arizona
Outstanding research paper: Crime and castigation —prohibition in Tucson
Scholarship
252 total citations
h-index 8
Books
Book Chapters
Refereed Articles
Presentations
Teaching
Undergraduate
Courses
Spanish 111. Elementary Spanish I
Spanish 113. Intensive Elementary Spanish
Spanish 153. Intermediate Spanish
Spanish 154. Accelerated Intermediate Spanish
Spanish 212. Exploring the Hispanic World
Spanish 309. Spanish Grammar and Composition
Spanish 322. Spanish Pronunciation and Dialect Variation
Spanish 320. Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Linguistics 150. Introduction to Linguistics
Linguistics 330. Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition
Linguistics 380. Quantitative Text Analysis
Linguistics 383. Language Engineering: Localization and Terminology
Advising
- 2021-present. Lower-division undergraduate advising
- 2017-2022. Spanish major and minor advising
- 2016-2019. Linguistics minor advising
- 2010-2016. Lower-division undergraduate advising
Honors thesis advisees
- Madeline Nelson. ‘Linguistic Revitalization: the case of Catalan’
Graduate
Courses
- Linguistics 680. Language Use and Technology.
- Spanish 629. Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics.
- Translation 785. Applied Research Project.
Thesis advisees
- Dustin Rosh. ‘An Investigation in the Sociolinguistic Landscape and Diversity of Spain’
- Ying Ma. ‘Explicitation via the use of connectives in English-Chinese translation: A corpus-based study’
- Melissa Gelinas. ‘Translating Non-Standard Dialects in Literature: The Slippery Slope of Localization’
- Ryan Sefcovic. ‘The Power of the Translator: Linguistic Devices Used to Manipulate the Reader’
- Anna Tal. ‘Translating Culture-Specific References in Alberto Granado’s Autobiographical Work ’Con el Che Guevara: de Córdoba a La Habana’’
- Chaowei Zhu. ‘Transitional universal not applicable? A case study of parallel translational Chinese-English literary corpus’
- Jordan Van Horn. ‘Language Use and Cognitive Flexibility’
- Derek Cotter. ‘Video Remote Interpreting and the Driving Forces for its Adoption in Healthcare Facilities’
- Lauren Reese. ‘The Varying Degree of Interpreter Mediation’
Grants
External
- National Science Foundation (NSF). Improving Scientific Writing In Undergraduate STEM Classrooms: A Training Program for Students and Teaching Assistants Aided By Information Extraction Technology Co-Primary Investigator. (1712423)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). ACTIV-ES: a novel Spanish language corpus for linguistic and cultural comparisons between communities of the Hispanic world Primary Investigator. (HD 51432-11)
- Tinker Foundation Incorporated (TFI). Field Research Grant. Research in Barcelona, Spain. Primary Investigator. The Role of Community in Language Maintenance and Shift in Barcelona, Spain
- U.S. Department of Education. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow. Universidade Federal de Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Internal
- Reynolds Research Leave. Office of the Dean. Data Science for Linguists: concepts through code in R Wake Forest University.
- Mid-Career Faculty Development Program. Office of the Dean. Wake Forest University.
- Office of the Provost’s Summer Grants for Exploration of Educational Technology. Student-directed composition assessment using web-based text analysis in RStudio’s Shiny Wake Forest University.
- Office of the Provost’s Summer Grants for Exploration of Educational Technology. Novel perspectives in language research and teaching through ‘big data’ and high-performance computing Wake Forest University.
- Archie Fund for the Arts and the Humanities Grant. Evaluating the ACTIV-ES corpus: a Spanish language corpus for three linguistically, culturally, and geographically distinct communities of the Hispanic world Wake Forest University.
- Office of the Provost’s Summer Grants for Exploration of Educational Technology. Exploring voting-based QA systems to build out-of-class learning communities and robust student-centered knowledge-bases Wake Forest University.
- Office of the Provost’s Summer Grants for Exploration of Educational Technology. Creating Highly Interactive Classroom Experiences in a Distance-learning Paradigm Wake Forest University.
- Archie Fund for the Arts and the Humanities Grant. SpanMorph and SpanSyn: an international collaborative effort to create open-source language resources for the morphological and syntactic analysis of Spanish Wake Forest University.
- Office of the Provost’s Summer Grants for Exploration of Educational Technology. Real-world Examples in Real Time Wake Forest University.
Professional development
- Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS). Instituto Superior Técnico, Instituto de Telecomunicações. Lisbon, Portugal. July 22-29, 2014
- Corpus Linguistics and Statistics for Linguists with R. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. July 31-August 14, 2013
- Sakai Workshop I/II. Teaching and Learning Center. Wake Forest University.
- Scholarly Writing Workshop. Research & Sponsored Programs. Wake Forest University.
- It’s not all about the money: Applying for Grants and Fellowships in the Humanities. Professional Development Center. Wake Forest University.
- eBooks made easy. Professional Development Center. Wake Forest University.
- Quality Circle. Professional Development Center. Wake Forest University.
- The Winning Grants Seminar. Research & Sponsored Programs. Wake Forest University.
Languages
Natural
English (native), Spanish (near-native), Portuguese (intermediate)
Programming
R, Bash, Fish, SQL, Perl, Python, DMDX