I am an Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics in the World Languages Programs at West Virginia University, and I have experience teaching courses both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These include Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, Spanish Conversation, Spanish through Media, Readings in Spanish, Issues in the Hispanic World, Methods of Research, Spanish Dialectology and Sociolinguistics, Spanish in the U.S., Structure of Spanish, Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation, Spanish Prosody, Sociolinguistics, and Introduction to Structural Linguistics.

While my main areas of study are phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics, part of my research focuses on language teaching and learning as well. I have a special interest in Spanish prosody, sociophonetics, dialectal variation and language contact situations. For this reason, I have worked with several Spanish varieties (Peninsular, Mexican, Caribbean, Andean, among others), multiple languages (English, Japanese, Basque) and speakers with different language profiles including L1 speakers, language learners and heritage speakers.

Currently I'm working with my colleague Dr. Jonan Katz (UCLA) on the project “The Causal Structure of Intervocalic Lenition” supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (FAIN 2234368 - PD 98-1311 Linguistics).