Brandon J. Martínez is a PhD Candidate in Spanish Linguistics.
A native New Mexican, he graduated from the University of New Mexico with an MA in Linguistics (2021) and a BA in Linguistics & Languages (2017). His primary research interest is the study of US Latinos and Spanish in the Borderlands through the lens of sociocultural linguistics. In his research, he takes perspectives from a range of interdisciplinary fields, including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, critical discourse analysis, Marxism, and Chicano studies.
As a heritage speaker and instructor of the named language "Spanish," his personal teaching philosophy emphasizes the use of comprehensible input from across the Spanish-speaking world, as well as a focus on communicative competency rather than prescriptive grammatical "correctness." By taking an approach of additive bilingualism interpreted through a critical translanguaging framework, he seeks to deconstruct oppressive and harmful raciolinguistic hierarchies for US Latinos through providing a sociolinguistically-informed learning environment for his heritage and second-language students.