Research Interests
- Heritage Language Research and Pedagogy; Latinos and Spanish in the US; Critical Language Awareness; Morphosyntactic variation; Andean Spanish
Her research interests include Spanish Heritage Language Research and Pedagogy, sociolinguistics, critical language awareness, and Spanish in the US. Her work focuses on promoting the use of Spanish in the United States and linguistic empowerment. Her research also extends to Peruvian and Ecuadorian Spanish, analyzing the variation in morphosyntactic variables. She is a co-principal investigator in a project named Peruzonians: A Living Archive of the Peruvian Migrant Experience in Arizona whose mission is to celebrate and foster interculturality by empowering the sense of identity among Peruvian migrants in Arizona.
