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Contact Information

4098 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801

Office Hours

Spring 2026
Mondays 12 to 1 pm (virtual or in person)
4098 LCLB
Graduate Student, Teaching Assistant
Head TA 4th Semester Spanish

Research Interests

First and Second Language Acquisition; Language Variation; Heritage Language Grammars; Spanish–Guaraní Contact; Morphosyntax; Bilingualism; Language and Education

Education

2024–Present Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Concentration: Second Language Acquisition & Teacher Education

Graduate Certificate: Computational Linguistics

Minor: Translation and Interpretation Studies

2024 M.A. in Spanish (Linguistics)

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2022 B.A. in English

Fasta University, Mar del Plata, Argentina

Courses Taught

SPAN 122: Intensive Elementary Spanish (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023)

SPAN 141: Introduction to Spanish Grammar (Spring 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2025)

SPAN 142: Spanish in the Professions (Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025)

SPAN 204: Advanced Spanish Grammar (Fall 2023)

SPAN 208: Oral Spanish (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

SPAN 228: Spanish Composition (Fall 2023, Spring 2025)