academic profile

Institutional affiliation
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics
Spanish Program
World Languages & Cultures Department
School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Indianapolis (IN, USA)

Visiting Professor in heritage language education, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) 2018 - present

ERASMUS Mundus International Scholar in Multilingualism, University of Strasburg (France) and University of Groningen (The Netherlands) 2022)
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Key roles at Indiana University
Director of Spanish Courses for Heritage/Native Speakers
Graduate Faculty in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Education 
Associate Director of Spanish Resource Center (Ministry of Education, Spain)
Committee Member Faculty Diversity Initiative
IUPUI representative for Intercampus BS in Spanish online program

Editorial Roles
Associate Editor, Spanish as a Heritage Language 
Reviews Editor, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Education
Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics (heritage language bilingualism and education, second language acquisition, Portuguese minor) - Texas Tech University (USA) 
MA. Applied Linguistics (bilingualism and multilingualism) - Birkbeck, University of London (UK) 
BA+MA. English Philology (English linguistics and TESOL) - Universidad de Granda (Spain) 

Areas of specialization
​Comparative and International Education
Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Late Bilingual/Heritage/Community Language Education 
Translanguaging, Translinguistics and Transperspectives
Critical Pedagogies for Language Teachers 

Languages
English 
Spanish 
Portuguese
Tamazight
French