2025
Christopher Newport University
Position: Lecturer
Dissertation: Constelaciones de Artistas: Estudio de los Espacios de Creación Colaborativa y Análisis de Redes en Espectáculos y Circuitos Intelectuales Españoles (1909-1936)
Adviser: Matthew Marr
2024
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: From the lab to the field: Exploring the interplay of literacy, socioeconomic status, and the use of multiple linguistic cues on predictive processing during spoken language comprehension
Adviser: Giuli Dussias
2023
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Position: Teaching Assistant Professor
Dissertation: La belleza del mal: Actualizaciones modernistas (1890-1930) del mito de Don Juan en la literatura Española
Adviser: Matthew Marr
Saint Paul College
Position: Institutional Researcher
Dissertation: Acquisition and maintenance of morphosyntactic variation: Differential object marking in Spanish-speaking children and adult Spanish-English bilinguals
Adviser: Karen Miller
Columbia University
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: El cuerpo (des)enritmado: Rompiendo con la habituación a la violencia en Cuba y Puerto Rico
Adviser: Marco Martínez, Judith Sierra-Rivera
Brandeis University
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Cuando Eshú y Dioniso se encuentran. Mediaciones afrogriegas en Cuba y Brasil
Adviser: Sarah Townsend
University of Louisville
Position: Assistant Professor Term
Dissertation: Desplazamientos culturales: Genealogías intelectuales en el neobarroco cuir latinoamericano (1950-1990)
Adviser: Krista Brune, Judith Sierra-Rivera
Milwaukee Turners Civic Group
Position: Research and Advocacy Associate and ACLS Leading Edge Fellow
Dissertation: Foundational whores: Sex tourism encounters in the contemporary American tropics
Adviser: Judith Sierra-Rivera
2022
Dominican College
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: La ciudad sonora: Sonidos e itinerarios del espacio urbano colonial en la ficción histórica latinoamericana
Adviser: John Ochoa
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Position: Project Manager, Office of Research and Development
Dissertation: Spanish rhotic variation in Corozal Town, Belize
Adviser: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Northwestern University
Position: Assistant Professor of Instruction
Dissertation: Language variation and revitalization: Plural marking in Palenquero Creole
Adviser: John Lipski
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Position: Faculty Development Specialist for Digital Learning
Dissertation: Processing novel inflectional morphology during L1 and L2 Spanish reading
Adviser: Matt Carlson
Texas Tech University
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Recomplementation between discourse and grammar: A syntactic investigation combining historical and experimental methods
Adviser: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Albright College
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Fictional bodies: Complicit and complacent subjects in contemporary Chilean and Spanish texts
Adviser: Nicolás Fernández Medina
Penn State
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Dissertation: Thinking Ahead: Predictive Processing of Grammatical Mood in Mono- and Multi-linguals
Adviser: Karen Miller
Indiana University
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Semantic network development in second language Spanish and its impact on processing skills
Adviser: Matt Carlson, Giuli Dussias
U.S. Food and Drug Administrationn
Position: Data Analyst, Division of Food Defense Targeting
Dissertation: Revisiting the Concept of “Triggering of Code-Switching”
Adviser: Rena Torres Cacoullos
2021
Health Sciences University in London
Position: Program Manager
Dissertation: Heritage speakers’ online processing of the Spanish subjunctive: A comprehensive usage-based study
Adviser: Giuli Dussias
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Focus, contrast and conversation: A variationist study of “[Verb+ser+X]” constructions in Colombian Spanish
Adviser: Rena Torres Cacoullos
2020
Duolingo
Position: Senior Learning Designer
Dissertation: Language representations in the presence of a lexical-functional split: An experimental approach targeting the Quichua-Media Lengua-Spanish interface
Adviser: John Lipski
Universidad del Norte
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Subject pronoun expression in Spanish-Palenquero bilinguals: Contact and second language acquisition
Adviser: John Lipski
University of Maryland
Position: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security
Dissertation: Integration in codeswitching: What is it, how does it surface, and why?
Adviser: Giuli Dussias
Penn State
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Desirable difficulties in learning multiword units in a second language: Exploring processing and retrieval through behavior and brain potentials
Adviser: Giuli Dussias
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Writing with cinema: Facing the screen and page in Modernist Spain (1920-1930)
Adviser: Nicolás Fernández-Medina
2019
University of California San Diego
Position: Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science
Dissertation: Revisiting Spanish grammatical gender in monolingual and bilingual speakers: Evidence from event-related potentials and eye-movements
Adviser: Giuli Dussias
Alexander McAllister
Penn State
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor
Dissertation: Perceptual learning in bilingual Spanish-English Populations: Does experience matter?
Adviser: Matt Carlson
John Hopkins University
Position: Career & Life Design Counselor
Dissertation: Moving through modern Spain (1888-1923): Revelatory darkness as critical medium
Adviser: Nicolás Fernández-Medina
2018
Villanova University
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish
Dissertation: Liminal voices, central constraints: Minority adoption of majority sound change
Adviser: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Stetson University
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: The Poetics and Politics of Pain: Decolonial Spirituality in the Afro-Caribbean and Its Diaspora
Adviser: Judith Sierra-Rivera
University of Montana
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: The subjunctive in New Mexican Spanish: Maintenance in the face of language contact
Adviser: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Jonathan Steuck
Innodata
Position: Director of LLM Data Services
Dissertation: The prosodic-syntactic structure of intra-sentential multi-word code-switching in the New Mexico Spanish-English bilingual community
Adviser: Rena Torres Cacoullos
2017
University of Southern California
Position: Associate Director
Dissertation: Investigating Prosodic Prominence in Spontaneous New Mexican Spanish
Adviser: John Lipski
SC Governor’s School for Math and Science
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Dissertation: First- and second-person singular subject pronoun expression in Dominican Spanish: The structure and acquisition of variable forms
Adviser: Karen Miller
Temple University
Position: Assistant Professor of Instruction
Dissertation: The theater of futures past: Infrastructures of the Latin American avant-garde
Adviser: Sarah Townsend
Penn State
Position: Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish
Dissertation: Investigating community norms and linguistic mechanisms in codeswitching: Bridging linguistic theory and psycholinguistic experimentation
Adviser: Giuli Dussias
2016
Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
Position: Assistant Professor
Dissertation: A diachronic variationist approach to the study of subject pronoun expression in Spanish: first-person singular
Adviser: Rena Torres Cacoullos
2015
Ana Cortejoso de Andres
Instituto de Educación Secundaria
Position: High School
Dissertation: “Born To Be A Star”: The Metafictional Representation of the Writer as a Global Celebrity in Hispanic Contemporary Narrative (1995-2010)
Adviser: Matthew Marr
College of DuPage
Position: Associate Professor
Dissertation: Framing the Nation: The Family as a Model for Nation Building in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Novel
Adviser: Julia Cuervo-Hewitt
Brigham Young University
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor
Dissertation: Reconstructing a history of Spanish immigration in West Virginia: Implications for multicultural education
Adviser: Julia Cuervo-Hewitt
University of Texas
Position: Associate Professor of Spanish
Dissertation: Direct Object Clitic Placement Preferences in Argentine Child Spanish
Adviser: Karen Miller