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4024 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
edwinsr2@illinois.edu
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PhD Student in Spanish Linguistics
Teaching Assistant
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Biography

I am an international and first-generation student coming from Colombia. 

Research Interests

  • Speech Perception and Production
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Second Language Acquisition

Education

  • Ph.D. Student in Spanish Linguistics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (In course)
  • M.A. in Spanish Linguistics and Literature - San Diego State University (2023)
  • B.Ed. in Foreign Languages English & French - Santiago de Cali University (2020)

Courses Taught

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2024-present):

  • Spanish 122 - Intensive Beginner Spanish
  • Spanish 303 - Sounds of Spanish

San Diego State University (2021-2023):

  • Spanish 101 - Beginner Spanish
  • Spanish 102 - Beginner Spanish
  • Spanish 201 - Intermediate Spanish

 

Additional Campus Affiliations

  • The Social Dynamics of Language Variation and Change Reading Group
  • The Phonetics and Phonology Forum
  • The Intensive English Institute

Recent Publications

  • Muñoz, E. S. R. (2024). Parodias postmodernistas, fantásticas y carnavalescas: la figura de la máscara en Noticias del Imperio. Interpretextos revista semestral de creación y divulgación de las humanidades (Colima), 1(1), 159-176.
  • Schmidt, L. B., Rodriguez, E., Vargas, C., & Cassio, A. (2025). Perception of Spanish diphthong/ei/by second language and heritage speakers of Spanish: findings from two perception tasks. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 18(2), 459-492.