Interests

As a researcher, my primary interest lies in the study of the US-Mexico Borderlands through the lens of sociocultural linguistics, with a theoretical orientation both eclectic and cross-disciplinary. In my exploration of the intersection of language, culture, and society in the US Latino community, I contextualize my research using perspectives from sociocultural linguistics, Marxism, and Chicano studies.

Besides US Spanish, I have also conducted unpublished) research on consonant reduction in American English, teaching methodologies for Indigenous languages, and the demonstrative system of iKalanga (a Bantu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