Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
Tuesdays + Thursdays from 11:00 am-12:00 pm in LCLB 4034
E-mail for Additional Appointment Days + Times
Research Interests
- Puerto Rican Spanish
- [ser/estar + ADJ], [ser/estar + FP]
- Reggaetón
- Sociolinguistics
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Semiotics of Protest
- Code-switching
- Q'anjob'al
- Quechua
- Language Preservation (esp. Borikenaíki/Taíno Language Reconstruction)
Education
- PhD, Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in progress
- MA, Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022
- BA, Foreign Languages and Cultures: Spanish, Western Illinois University, 2018
- Internship, Puerto Rico, 2018
Awards and Honors
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (*Outstanding) | Fall 2020, Spring 2021*, Fall 2021*, Spring 2022, Fall 2022*, Spring 2023, Fall 2023*, Fall 2024*
- UIUC Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Summer Fellowship | Summer 2021
Courses Taught
- SPAN 307: Bilingualism / Spring 2025, Fall 2025
- SPAN 308: Spanish in the U.S. / Fall 2024, Fall 2025
- SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community / Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- SPAN 228: Spanish Composition / Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- SPAN 142: Spanish in the Professions / Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022
- SPAN 130: Intermediate Spanish / Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- SPAN 122: Intensive Elementary Spanish / Fall 2020
- SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II / Fall 2023
- SPAN 101: Elementary Spanish I / Fall 2023, Fall 2024
Recent Publications
Trybulec, E. (2025). “‘TÁ PA’ LA RUMBA Y HACER DINERO”: From ‘ser/estar + ADJ’ to ‘ser/estar + PRP’ in Puerto Rican Spanish. In W. Valentín-Márquez, D. Powell, & C. I. Maymí (Eds.), Puerto Rican Spanish, Reggaetón Style! The (Socio)Linguistics of Urban Music (pp. 151-184). Vernon Press.
Callesano, S., Delgado, R., Ma, W., Trybulec, E., & Reyes, G. (2025). Contextualizing code-switching: testing the effects of reggaetón labels and listening frequency in an Acceptability Judgment Task. Frontiers in Communication, 9, Article 1490299. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1490299