Interests

As a researcher, my primary interest is the intersection of language, culture, and society in the US Latino community, contextualizing my research with insights from sociocultural linguistics, Marxist theory, and Latino/Chicano studies. Some of my specific research interests include variationist sociolinguistics, raciolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and hiphopography.

Besides US Spanish, I have also conducted unpublished research on consonant reduction in American English, teaching methodologies for Indigenous languages, and the demonstrative system of iKalanga (a Bantu language spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe).