Julieta Fernández (Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Penn State University) is Associate Professor in the Spanish & Portuguese Department. She is also a faculty member in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), and a member of the Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) cluster at the University of Arizona. Her research seeks to advance our understanding of second language teaching and learning in the at-home and study abroad (SA) contexts, with a special focus on pragmatics (the study of language use in social interaction). Prof. Fernández welcomes students who want to work with her on these topics in the Tucson Applied Linguistics Lab, which she runs with the help of a Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Grant. Her publications have appeared in such journals as Journal of Pragmatics, Modern Language Journal, Applied Pragmatics, Spanish Language Teaching, and Foreign Language Annals. Most of her publications can be found here. With a group of colleagues, Prof. Fernández was recently awarded a CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grant for the collaborative project "A linguistically responsive Teaching Assistant (TA) training model". To learn more about this project see here.