I am a PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics and a graduate teaching associate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Education:
I received both my BA (Languages - Portuguese and Spanish) and MA (Hispanic Linguistics) from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and 2018 respectively.
Research:
My main research interests are in the fields of Sociolinguistics and Language Contact, with an emphasis on U.S. Spanish. I have been working more specifically with language variation and change (mood variation), language contact phenomena, and also the incorporation of Sociolinguistics within the field of Heritage Language Pedagogy. I have been a research assistant for the project Bilingual Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands and for CESA (Corpus del Español en el Sur de Arizona). I am also a research collaborator in the Group of Inter-institutional Research in Languages, which has been working with pronominal variation in Brazilian Portuguese tweets.
Teaching:
SPAN 253: Intermediate Spanish I for Heritage Learners (Fall 2020; Fall 2021; Fall 2022)
SPAN 458: Hispanic Sociolinguistics (Spring 2020)
PORT 305: Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (Fall 2018 - Fall 2019; Summer 2020)
PORT 497R: Advanced Intensive Portuguese and Brazilian Culture (co-taught with Dr. Katia Bezerra in the Study Abroad Program; Summer 2021)
Service:
I was a program assistant and advisor in the Spanish as a Heritage Language program at the University of Arizona during the 2021-2022 academic year. I am co-creator and member of the Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Working Group at the University of Arizona, and I was also the Linguistics coordinator of the 31st Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Symposium hosted in the same institution. In addition, I have served as reviewer and associate editor for Spanish & Portuguese Review (graduate journal of AATSP).