Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
language in U.S. Latinx communities, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, Spanish in the U.S., perceptual dialectology, linguistic percpetion and ideology, social media
Education
Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, 2020
Graduate Portfolio in Mexican American & Latina/o Studies, 2020
M.A. Linguistics, Florida International University, 2015
B.A. Spanish & Linguistics, New York University, 2013
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Assistant Professor, Latina/o Studies
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE)
External Links
Recent Publications
Clemons, A. M., Callesano, S., & Castro, C. T. (2025). D-Smoke’s, El Rey: An interdisciplinary approach toward a Blaxican soundscape. In M. Amengual, & A. Dalola (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (pp. 211-239). (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics; Vol. 45). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.45.09cle
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
Callesano, S. (2023). Mediated Bricolage and the Sociolinguistic Co-Construction of No Sabo Kids. Languages, 8(3), Article 206. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030206
Callesano, S., & Carter, P. M. (2023). Unidirectional language bias: The Implicit Association Test with Spanish and English in Miami. International Journal of Bilingualism, 27(6), 960-977. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221121159
Callesano, S., & Carter, P. M. (2019). Latinx perceptions of Spanish in Miami: Dialect variation, personality attributes and language use. Language and Communication, 67, 84-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2019.03.003