Education

2021: Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Linguistics.

2013: M.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Linguistics.

2010: B.A., University of California at Davis. Double major in Linguistics and Film Studies with minors in Italian and German.

Summer 2013: LSA Summer Institute at the University of Michigan.

Summer 2014: Faroese Summer Institute, University of the Faroe Islands.

Work experience

Lecturer of Linguistics, UC Riverside. Courses taught: Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, and Language and the Brain (Recurring: 2016, 2019-).

Lecturer in Spanish program, CSU Fullerton. Course taught: SPAN 530, Graduate Seminar: Historical Linguistics, Spring 2021.

At UIUC, I taught LING 210 and was a Teaching Assistant for LING 301 & LING 307. I was also the Editor of Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers (Fall 2011-Spring 2015).

Languages

Courses taken in: Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese, Hindi, French, Swahili, Catalan, Swedish, Russian, Faroese, Basque, Modern Greek, Turkish, Mandarin Chinese, Quechua and American Sign Language.

Field Methods: Malayalam, Summer 2013, LSA Summer Institute

Functional proficiency: Spanish

Linguistic research reading ability: Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, French, Portuguese, and other Germanic and Romance languages with a dictionary, and other languages as needed.