Education

• B.A., Inter American University of Puerto Ricoli>
• M.A., Western Michigan University
• Ph.D., University of Michigan

Areas of Specialization

• Sociolinguistics

Special Interests

• Phonological variation in Puerto Rican Spanish
• The sociolinguistics of reggaeton
• Spanish in the United States

Courses Taught

• -Undergraduate:
  • Elementary and Intermediate Spanish
  • Composition and Oral Expression
  • Phonetics
  • Spanish Linguistics
• -Graduate:
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Composition and Stylistics
  • History of the Spanish Language
  • Phonetics

Selected Publications:

2006. La Oclusión Glotal y la Construcción Lingüística de Identidades Sociales en Puerto Rico. Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, 326-341. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/9/paper1390.pdf