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lgorman@arizona.edu
Office
Modern Languages 525
Office Hours
Mondays 4:45pm-5:45pm in-person and by appointment via Zoom
Gorman, Lillian
Assistant Professor and Director of Spanish as a Heritage Language Program

Dr. Lillian Gorman is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics and U.S. Latina/o/x Cultural Studies and the Director of the Spanish as a Heritage Language Program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She is also affiliated faculty in the Second Language Teaching and Acquisition (SLAT) and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory (SCCT) Graduate Interdiscipilinary programs and Global Studies.  Her research interests center around issues of language and identity within U.S. Latina/o/x communities and in U.S. Latina/o/x popular culture. Her interdisciplinary work also focuses on heritage language pedagogy and its intersections with bilingual education.  Her essays have appeared in the edited volumes Transnational Encounters:  Music and Performance at the U.S. Mexico Border, Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English Speaking Societies, Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Capturing Linguistic and Cultural Diversities, and Querencia:  Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland.  She was recently awarded the University of New Mexico Center for Regional Studies Semester Scholar-in-Residence Award (2020) and the University of Arizona Hispanic Serving Institutions Fellowship (2019-2020).      

She graduated with a B.A. in Spanish and an M.A. in Southwest Hispanic Studies from the University of New Mexico where she was part of the university’s first class of Ronald E. McNair Scholars.  She graduated with her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Hispanic Studies with concentrations in Latina/o cultural studies and sociolinguistics and also served as the Assistant Director for UIC’s Spanish for Heritage Speakers Program.  She has worked in the field of Spanish as a Heritage Language for 19 years.  She previously developed and directed the Spanish as a Heritage Language Program and the Spanish for Heritage Learners Nicaragua Summer Immersion Program at New Mexico Highlands University. She has also served as faculty for the Summer Spanish Immersion Program for Bilingual Teachers at New Mexico Highlands University from 2006-2019.  She actively promotes recruitment and retention of Latinas/os/xs in higher education and has worked with local and national Latino higher education organizations such as the USDA Hispanic Serving Institutions Office, HACU and the Tucson Hispanic Leadership Institute.  Dr. Lillian Gorman is a proud Chicana and Nuevomexicana from Albuquerque, New Mexico.   

COURSES TAUGHT:

SPAN 103: Oral Skills for Heritage Learners of Spanish

SPAN 253: Intermediate Spanish I for Heritage Learners

SPAN 333:  Advanced Spanish for Heritage Learners

SPAN 150B1 GNED:  Latina/o/x Stories

SPAN 150B2 GNED: The Politics of Language- U.S. Latinos, Language and Society

SPAN 449D: Topics in Border Studies- Las líneas fronterizas de los latinos en los Estados Unidos (U.S. Latina/o/x Cultural and Linguistic Borderlands)

SPAN 457: Applied Linguistics

SPAN 473:  Spanish for Teachers

SPAN 574A: Language in the Mexican-American Experience

SPAN 574B:  Heritage Language Research

SPAN 581B: Heritage Language Pedagogy

 

 

Currently Teaching

SPAN 150B1 – Latino/a/x Stories

This course introduces students to the Latina/o/x experience in the United States through exploring its expressive culture. Students will analyze a variety of texts including short stories, poems, novels, films, and songs in order to explore a wide range of themes, from race relations to migrant identities to gender norms, in a variety of contexts including family, education, politics, and popular culture.

This course introduces students to the Latina/o/x experience in the United States through exploring its expressive culture. Students will analyze a variety of texts including short stories, poems, novels, films, and songs in order to explore a wide range of themes, from race relations to migrant identities to gender norms, in a variety of contexts including family, education, politics, and popular culture.

This course introduces students to the Latina/o/x experience in the United States through exploring its expressive culture. Students will analyze a variety of texts including short stories, poems, novels, films, and songs in order to explore a wide range of themes, from race relations to migrant identities to gender norms, in a variety of contexts including family, education, politics, and popular culture.

This course introduces students to the Latina/o/x experience in the United States through exploring its expressive culture. Students will analyze a variety of texts including short stories, poems, novels, films, and songs in order to explore a wide range of themes, from race relations to migrant identities to gender norms, in a variety of contexts including family, education, politics, and popular culture.

SPAN 581B – Heritage Language Pedagogy

This course serves as an introduction to the main theories and practices in the field of Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) education. The course will begin by defining the field and SHL learners and will address issues related to the goals of SHL instruction and methods available for its teaching, sociolinguistics processes common in SHL students' Spanish and the sociopolitical position of Spanish in the US. This course incorporates a practical component of classroom observation and lesson and activity planning to prepare future teachers for effective SHL teaching practices.

SPAN 473 – Spanish for the Classroom Teacher of Spanish

Practical Spanish for the elementary and secondary school subject-matter teacher who uses Spanish as the medium of instruction.

Practical Spanish for the elementary and secondary school subject-matter teacher who uses Spanish as the medium of instruction.

Practical Spanish for the elementary and secondary school subject-matter teacher who uses Spanish as the medium of instruction.

Practical Spanish for the elementary and secondary school subject-matter teacher who uses Spanish as the medium of instruction.