Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Bilingualism
Code-switching
Heritage Speakers
Spanish in the U.S.
Grammatical Gender
Preposition Stranding
Education
Ph.D. | University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A. | University of Illinois at Chicago
Courses Taught
SPAN 308: Spanish in the U.S.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Recent Publications
Callesano, S., Delgado, R., Ma, W., & Trybulec, E. (2026). Social variation of code-switching acceptability. International Journal of Bilingualism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069251404838
Delgado, R., Mora-Moreno, S., & Cervantes-Gomez, X. V. (2026). Sounds Like Politics: Cardi B and the Discourse of Español Ratatá. Latino Studies, 24(2), 168-186. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-026-00579-w
Delgado, R. (2025). A Grammatical Analysis of the Code-switching in Gentefied. In Translating Spanglish in US Latinx Audiovisual Stories (pp. 73-94). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003488057-7
Delgado, R., & Koronkiewicz, B. (2025). Asymmetrical p-stranding: Acceptability data from Spanish-English code-switching. Isogloss, 11(4), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.454
Callesano, S., Delgado, R., Ma, W., Trybulec, E., & Reyes, G. (2024). 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