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Primary Discipline

Primary Discipline: 

  • Old HierarchyLinguistics

Biography: 

I was excited to join the NCIS as a young Ph.D. after having served as a visiting assistant professor at Colby College and transitioning to working as a private high school teacher. It has been a source of scholarly camaraderie and encouragement as I continue to work on research projects, papers, and a book project. I was able to present at the recent NCIS conference in Amherst, MA, on a recent paper that I had completed and found the NCIS community a wonderful group of individuals. I was able to make friends and meet many people who I had "met" online.

Current research areas: 

Sociolinguistics, address forms, linguistic landscape

Recent publications: 

English in Ecuador: A look into the linguistic landscape of Azogues. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
The social values of tú, vos and usted in Ecuadorian Spanish. An ethnographic account of usage in Azogues. The Independent Scholar.
Dos patrones del leísmo en el español de Azogues, Ecuador: Un análisis basado en datos recogidos de Facebook Messenger. Dialectología

Forthcoming research: 

The Jews of Ecuador Today: Established and Emerging Communities
English in the Linguistic Landscape of Cuenca, Ecuador: Assessing its vitality in neighborhoods
New Title: Assessing the Ethnolinguistic Vitality of Spanish in the Linguistic Landscapes of New York City and Greater Boston: A Neighborhood-Based Approach

Other activities: 

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