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CURRICULUM VITAE: ALEJANDRO CUZA
EDUCATION
ALEJANDRO CUZA
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Purdue University
Stanley Coulter Hall. 640 Oval Drive. West Lafayette, IN 47907. USA
2008 Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics. University of Toronto. Canada.
Committee members: Ana T. Pérez-Leroux (Adviser), Laura Colantoni,
Jeffrey Steele.
2001 M.A., Hispanic Linguistics. University of Ottawa. Canada.
Committee members: Juana Liceras (Adviser), Rodney Williamson,
Franco Ricci.
1996 B.A. English Philology. Universidad de Oriente. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Second language acquisition, child bilingual development, heritage language
acquisition, language attrition, biliteracy education.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS
2012 Clifford Kinley Trust Award ($20,000)
Office of the Vice President for Research. Purdue University
2012 PRF Summer Faculty Grant ($8,000)
Purdue Research Foundation. Purdue University.
2011 Provost’s Service Learning Faculty Development Grant ($2,000)
Office of the Provost. Purdue University.
2011 Dammon Dean’s Scholars Mentor. ($250 and RA)
College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University.
2011 Instructional Equipment Allocation Grant ($5,888)
College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University.
2008 International Travel Grant ($1400)
Purdue Research Foundation. Purdue University.
2008 Dammon Dean’s Scholars Mentor. ($500 and RA)
College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University.
2005 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship ($20,000)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Federal Government of Canada.
2005 Milton A. Buchanan Travel Fellowship ($2,500)
Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Toronto.
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2003 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) ($15,000)
Government of Ontario, Canada.
2002 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) ($15,000)
Government of Ontario, Canada.
PUBLICATIONS (*denotes graduate student)
Refereed journal articles and book chapters
1) Cuza, A. & Pérez-Tattam, R (submitted). Grammatical gender selection and phrasal word
order in the grammar of Spanish/English bilingual children (submitted to Proceedings for
the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, LSRL 42).
2) Cuza, A., Pérez-Tattam, R. *Barajas, E., *Miller, L., & *Sadowski, C. (forthcoming).
The development of tense and aspect morphology in child and adult heritage Spanish:
Implications for heritage language pedagogy. In John Schwieter (Ed.), Innovative
research and practices in second language acquisition and bilingualism. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
3) Cuza, A., Pérez-Leroux, A. T., & Sánchez, L. (forthcoming, March 2013). The role of
semantic transfer in clitic-drop among simultaneous and sequential Chinese-Spanish
bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
4) Cuza, A. (2012). Cross-linguistic influence at the syntax proper: interrogative subjectverb
inversion in heritage Spanish. The International Journal of Bilingualism. March
2012 (published online first).
5) Cuza, A., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Pires, A., & Rothman, J. (2012). The syntax-semantics of
bare and definite plural subjects in the L2 Spanish of English natives. The International
Journal of Bilingualism. March 2012 (published online first).
6) Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Cuza, A. & Thomas, D. (2011). Clitic placement in Spanish/English
bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14(2), 221-232.
7) Cuza, A. & *Frank, J. (2011). Transfer effects at the syntax-semantics interface: The case
of double-que questions in heritage Spanish. The Heritage Language Journal, 8(2), 66-
89.
8) Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Cuza, A. & Thomas, D. (2011). From parental attitudes to input
conditions: Spanish-English bilingual development in Toronto. In Kim Potowski and
Jason Rothman (Eds.), Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking Societies (pp. 49-
176). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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9) Cuza, A. (2010). The L1 attrition of the Spanish present tense. Hispania, 93(2), 256-272.
10) Cuza, A. (2010). The L2 acquisition of aspectual properties in Spanish. Canadian
Journal of Linguistics, 55(2), 1001-1028.
11) Liceras, J., Mongeon, C., Cuza, A., Senn, C. & Spradlin, T. (2004). La adquisición en el
aula sin input formal: los compuestos ‘exocéntricos’ de las interlenguas del español.
Revista Electrónica de didáctica del español como lengua extranjera (RedELE).
Número 0, March 2004. Madrid: Espasa Calpe. http://www.mepsyd.es/redele/revista/liceras.shtml
12) Pérez-Leroux, A. Cuza, A. Majlanova, M. & Sánchez-Naranjo, J. (2008). Non-native
Recognition of the Iterative and Habitual Meanings of Spanish Preterite and Imperfect
Tenses. In Juana Liceras, Helmut Zobl and Helen Goodluck (Eds.), The Role of Formal
Features in Second Language Acquisition (pp.432-451). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum.
Articles in refereed conference proceedings
13) Cuza, A. & *Frank, J. (2010). The acquisition of double que questions in heritage and L2
Spanish. In Melinda Heijl (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2010 Canadian Linguistics
Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec. Canada. May-June 2010.
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2010/CLA2010_Cuza_Frank.PDF
14) Cuza, A., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Judy, T. & Rothman, J. (2008). Adult Feature
Acquisition, Interface Vulnerability and the DP in L2 Spanish, GLOW Newsletter 60.
Book/article reviews and other publications
15) Cuza, A. & Pérez-Leroux, A. (2006). I came long time ago: Language attrition in longtime
bilinguals. In Bilingual/Bicultural Family Network Magazine. Available online at:
http://www.biculturalfamily.org/apr06/icamelongtimeago.html
16) Cuza, A. (2006). Review of First Language Acquisition by Eve Clark. Journal of
Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 27, 2, 162-163.
17) Cuza, A. (2001). Review of “The Interaction of Instruction and Learner-Internal Factors
in the Acquisition of L2 Morphosyntax” by Paul Toth. Boletín de la asociación para la
enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera, 24, 96-97.
18) Cuza, A. (2000). Review of “Reading and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition” by
Paribakht, T. Sima & M. Wesche. In Boletín de la asociación para la enseñanza del
español como lengua extranjera. 91-92.
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Manuscripts in preparation
Cuza, A., *Frank, J. (in preparation). The role of experience and cross-linguistic
influence effects in the near-native L2 grammar: Evidence from the Spanish CP.
Cuza & Strik, N. (in preparation). Interrogative inversion in Spanish-English Bilingual
Children.
Cuza, A. (in preparation). Syntactic variability in the grammar of Spanish long-term
immigrants and adult L2 learners.
Cuza, A. (in preparation). On the L2 representation of the ongoing value of the Spanish
present.
ONGOING PROJECTS (as principal investigator)
The Effects of Heritage Language Instruction on Children’s Academic Growth (with
Becky Xi Chen, Lauren Miller, Adrian Pasquarella, and Joél Muñoz) (project funded
by the Kinley Trust Foundation, $20,000).
Phonetic L1 Attrition of Heritage Spanish in Contact with English (with Laura
Colantoni and Natalia Mazaro).
The morphosyntactic L1 attrition of Spanish.
Current collaborators
Becky Chen, University of Toronto (OISE).
Laura Colantoni, University of Toronto.
Joshua Frank, University of Texas Austin.
Natalia Mazzaro, University of Texas, Austin.
Lauren Miller, Purdue University.
Adrian Pasquarella, University of Toronto.
Rocío Pérez-Tattam, Swansea University.
Liliana Sánchez, Rutgers University.
Nelleke Strik, Dalhousie University.
REFERRED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2012
Cuza, A., Pérez-Tattam, R. *Barajas, E., *Miller, L., & *Sadowski, C (2012). “The
Development of Aspectual Morphology in Child and Adult Heritage Spanish”. Hispanic
Linguistic Symposium. University of Florida. October 25-28, 2012.
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Cuza, A. & Rocío Pérez-Tattam (2012). “Gender features selection and phrasal word order
in simultaneous Spanish/English bilingual children”. Poster presentation, Hispanic
Linguistic Symposium. University of Florida. October 25-28, 2012.
Strik, N. & Cuza, A. (2012). Interrogative Inversion in Spanish-English bilinguals:
instances of bidirectional transfer. Poster presentation. The Road Less travelled: An
international Conference on Heritage Languages and Heritage Language Acquisition.
University of Toronto, October 25-29, 2012.
Cuza, A. & Pérez-Tattam, R. (2012). “Grammatical gender selection and phrasal word order
in the grammar of Spanish/English bilingual children.” Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages (LSRL42). Southern Utah University, April 20-22, 2012.
Cuza, A. & Strik, N. (2012). “Patterns of morphosyntactic convergence and child L1
attrition: Evidence from subject-verb inversion in Spanish-English bilingual children”.
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL42). Southern Utah University,
April 20-22, 2012.
Cuza, A & Strik, N. (2012). Interrogative Inversion in Spanish-English Bilingual Children:
Cross-linguistic Influence and L1 Attrition in Spanish. Conference on Formal Approaches
to Heritage Language. Amherst MA, April 21-22.
2011
Cuza, A. & *Barbosa, M. (2011). “Does structural overlap matter? Evidence from object
drop in English-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals.” Poster presentation, 36 th Boston
University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 36). November 4-6, 2011.
Cuza, A & *Frank, J. (2011). “Syntactic optionality in the near-native grammar of Spanish
L2 learners and heritage speakers: Structural ambiguity and input factors.” Hispanic
Linguistics Symposium. University of Georgia, Athens. October 2011.
Cuza, A. & Strik, N. (2011). “On interrogative inversion in early Spanish-English bilingual
children: Beyond incomplete development.” Language Acquisition Workshop. University
of Toronto. July 14, 2011. Department of French Studies/Department of Linguistics.
Cuza, A. (2011). “Syntactic transfer in Spanish-English bilingual children: the case of
interrogative inversion.” 12 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language.
Université de Québec a Montreal. Montreal. Canada, July 2011.
Cuza, A., Pérez-Leroux, A.T., & Sánchez, L. (2011). “The role of semantic transfer in cliticdrop
among Chinese L1-Spanish L2 bilinguals.” Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages (LSRL41). University of Ottawa. Canada. May, 2011.
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Cuza, A., Pérez-Leroux, A.T., & Sánchez, L. (2011). “The role of semantic transfer in cliticdrop
among Chinese L1-Spanish L2 bilinguals.” 11 th Generative Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 11). University of Washington, Seattle.
March, 2011.
2010
Cuza, A. & Frank, J. (2010). “Que cuándo fue que fue: The development of double que
questions in Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners.” Hispanic Linguistic Symposium.
Indiana University. October, 2010.
Cuza, A., Fukada A., Ginther A., (2010). “Online vs. offline oral testing: Theoretical and
practical implications for Spanish language programs.” Language Teaching in increasingly
Multilingual Environments: From Research to Practice. University of Warsaw, Warsaw.
Poland. September, 2010.
Cuza, A. & *Frank, J (2010). “On the incomplete acquisition of the Spanish CP: Evidence
from doubly-filled comp structures.” Canadian Linguistic Association Conference.
Concordia University. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. May 2010.
2009
Cuza, A. (2009). “Atrición morfosintáctica en el español nativo: opcionalidad fuera de las
interfaces.” Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. University of Rio Piedras. San Juan, Puerto
Rico. October, 2009.
Cuza, A., Pérez-Leroux, A.T & Thomas D. (2009). “Attitudinal factors and syntactic
transfer in the grammar of Spanish-English bilingual children.” 7 th International
Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7). The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS)
of Utrecht University. The Netherlands.
Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Thomas, D. & Cuza, A. (2009). “How transfer happens in narrow
syntax: A study of clitic placement in two groups of Spanish-speaking children in Toronto.”
Workshop on Heritage Languages. University of Toronto. Canada.
Cuza, A. (2009). “On the L2 representation of the Spanish present tense.” 10 th Generative
Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 10). University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 2009.
Cuza, A., (2009). “Incomplete acquisition and L1 attrition of subject verb inversion in
Spanish: optionality outside the interfaces.” Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Linguistics (LSRL39). University of Arizona. March 2009.
2008
Cuza, A., Pérez-Leroux, A.T & Thomas, D. (2008). “Input conditions and parental attitudes
in the developing grammar of Spanish/English bilingual children.” Hispanic Linguistic
Symposium. Université de Laval. Quebec. Canada. October 2008.
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Cuza, A., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Judy, T. and Rothman, J. (2008). “Examining the DP in
Non-Native Spanish: Implications for Adult Feature Acquisition and Interface
Vulnerability.” Linguistic Symposium of Romance Languages (LSRL38). University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign. April, 2008.
Guijarro-Fuentes, Cuza, A., Judy, T. and Rothman, J. (2008). “The acquisition of adjectives
in instructed Spanish: The role of individual characteristics.” Annual Conference, British
Association of Applied Linguistics. Language Learning and Teaching SIG. University of
Greenwich. UK. July 2008.
Cuza, A. & Thomas, D. (2008). “From parental attitudes to input conditions: A look at
Spanish-English bilingual development in Toronto.” Annual Conference, American
Association of Applied Linguists (AAAL). Washington, DC.
Cuza, A. Guijarro-Fuentes, A., Judy, T. and Rothman, J. (2008). “Adult Feature
Acquisition, Interface Vulnerability and the DP in L2 Spanish.” 31 st GLOW Colloquium:
Generative Linguistics in the Old World. Newcastle University. UK. 2008.
2007
Cuza, A. (2007). “The L1 attrition of the semantic properties of the Spanish present tense.”
6 th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB6). University of Hamburg. Hamburg,
Germany.
2006
Cuza, A. (2006). “L2 indeterminacy and loss in the aspectual domain: a transfer account.”
The Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. The University of Western Ontario. Canada.
Cuza, A. (2006). “Lexical transfer and the acquisition of aspect among Spanish-English
bilinguals.” Language and Linguistics at UofT event. University of Toronto. Canada.
Cuza, A. (2006). “The L2 acquisition of aspectual properties in Spanish.” Ontario
Dialogues on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese.” University of Toronto.
Canada.
2005
Cuza, A. (2005). “The temporal properties of the Spanish present: L2 Influence and Nonnative
Recognition.” Annual Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. The
University of Western Ontario. London. Ontario. Canada.
Cuza, A. (2005). “Non-Native recognition of the selectional values of the Spanish present
tense.” Ontario Dialogues on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese. The University
of Western Ontario. London, Ontario. Canada.
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2004
Cuza, A. (2004) “The L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of tense and aspect among adult
Spanish-English bilinguals.” 8 th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the 7 th Conference
on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
2002
Cuza, A. (2002). “The verb movement parameter: L2 Acquisition and L1 loss.” Second
Language research Forum 2002 (SLRF). University Toronto, Toronto. Canada.
Cuza, A. (2002). “Attrition and the compounding parameter: L1 Spanish in contact situation
with English L2.” First International Conference on Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Methodological Issues. Vrije Universitad. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Cuza, A., Liceras, L., Spradlin, T & Tremblay, A. (2002). “La alternancia de código (Ana
me dijo that she would be here at three) en el lenguaje infantil y el lenguaje adulto: ¿qué nos
dice sobre “ser o no ser” bilingüe?” Research Seminar. Dept. of Modern Languages.
University of Ottawa. Ottawa, Canada.
Cuza, A. (2002). “Morphosyntactic attrition of NN compounds in Spanish.” 47 th Annual
Conference of the International Linguistic Association. York University. Toronto, Canada.
2001
Liceras, L., Cuza, A. , Senn, C. & Spradlin, T. (2001). “Morphology and directionality of
‘deverbals’ compounds in non-native Spanish: Problems of directionality or grammatical
competence?” Annual Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Université de
Laval. Quebec, Canada.
INVITED TAKS AND SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
2012
Cuza, A. (2012). The “Aprendiendo a leer” Program. Bridging Bilingualism Research with
Community Engagement. CLA Interdisciplinary Studies and Community Engagement Fair.
October 3, 2012.
Cuza, A, (2012). Bilingual/Biliteracy education in the XXI century: How important our
children’s minority language really is? Invited talk at the Afterschool Tutoring Program
Professional Development Event (sponsored by Community Schools of Frankfort and
Purdue Extension Office). September 5, 2012.
Cuza, A. (2012). The effects of minority language instruction on children’s educational
development. Invited speaker presentation at the College of Liberal Arts Diversity Action
Forum “Bridging Community to Education”. Purdue University, April 3, 2012.
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Cuza, A. (2012). The effects of dual language instruction on children’s academic growth.
Invited speaker presentation at the The Indiana Youth Institute, Youth Workers Café.
Frankfort, Indiana. January 25 th , 2012.
2011
Cuza, A. (2011). A service learning approach to heritage language teaching and child
bilingualism. Presentation for executives and school officials from Delphi Community
School Corporation. Delphi, Indiana. Nov. 2011.
Cuza, A. & *Barajas, E. (2011). El desarrollo bilingüe en la edad infantil: estrategias y
recomendaciones para padres hispanos (Bilingual development during school age:
strategies and recommendations to Hispanic parents). Invited speaker presentation for
Hispanic parents and community members from Frankfort IN. Event sponsored by The
Learning Network of Clinton County, Purdue Extension office and Head Start. Frankfort,
IN. May 9. 2011.
Cuza, A. (2011). The role of semantic transfer in clitic drop among Chinese L1-Spanish L2
bilinguals. Invited speaker. School of Languages and Cultures Faculty Colloquium. Purdue
University. March 1, 2011.
2010
Cuza, A. (2010). Null objects in Chinese-speaking learners of Spanish. Guest lecture.
Graduate seminar Experimental Syntax (ENGL 627S / LING 629S) Purdue University
(course taught by Prof. Elaine Francis).
2009
Cuza, A. (2009). Input conditions and parental attitudes in the developing grammar of
Spanish-English bilingual children. Invited speaker. School of Languages and Cultures
Faculty Colloquium. Purdue University. February 2009.
2006
Cuza, A. (2006). Cross-linguistic influence and L1 attrition in the grammar of long-term
Spanish immigrants. Guest lecture. Spanish Bilingualism (SPA 324H1) University of
Toronto (course taught by Prof. Ana T Pérez-Leroux).
ACCADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2008-present Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Purdue University. School of Languages and Cultures.
West Lafayette, Indiana.
2007-2008 Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics
University of Illinois at Chicago. Department of Spanish, French, Italian
and Portuguese.
Chicago, Illinois.
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2005- 2007 Spanish Instructor
Brock University. Department of Modern Languages and Cultures.
St. Catharines, Ontario. Canada.
2002- 2007 Teaching Assistant
University of Toronto, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Toronto, Ontario. Canada.
2000- 2001 Teaching Assistant
University of Ottawa. Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ottawa, Ontario. Canada.
COURSES TAUGHT
o Graduate Level
SPAN/SLC 519: Teaching College Spanish.
SLC/LING 679: Topics on the Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax (Graduate Seminar).
SLC/LING 679: Bilingualism and Language Acquisition (Graduate Seminar).
SLC/LING 575: Theories in Second Language Acquisition.
SPAN 502: Theoretical and Research Foundations of Communicative Language Teaching.
SPAN/LING 557: Generative Second Language Acquisition (Graduate Seminar).
LING/FRE698: Independent Reading in French Applied Linguistics.
LING/SHS590: Independent Reading in First Language Acquisition.
LING 590: Independent Reading in Second Language Acquisition.
o Undergraduate Level
FLL 499: Independent Research in Spanish Bilingualism.
SPAN 362: The Structure of Spanish II: Spanish Morphosyntax and Dialectology.
SPAN 398: Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers.
SPAN 420: Advanced Spanish Grammar (University of Toronto).
SPAN 220: Intermediate Spanish (University of Toronto).
SPAN 320: Advanced Spanish (University of Toronto).
SPAN 100: Introductory Spanish (University of Ottawa).
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS
Current PhD students (major professor)
Claudia Sadowski: Heritage language development, Spanish linguistics.
Cezar Medeiros: Second language acquisition, Spanish and Portuguese linguistics.
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Member of PhD dissertation committees
Muriel Gallego (2010): Focus on form through a dictogloss task: Exploring its effects on
the acquisition of the Spanish present subjunctive in complement clauses. Advisor: Dr.
Mariko Wei.
Wei Zhang (2010): Non-native speakers speak in phonemes: A phono-acoustic analysis of
fricatives and affricates by native and Chinese speakers of English. Advisor: Dr. Alex
Francis, Speech Language and Hearing Sciences and Linguistics.
Kristin Carlson (in progress). Post-nuclear liquids in Cuban Spanish: Acoustic,
Perceptual and Sociolinguistic Analyses. Advisor: Dr. Bob Hammond.
Ager Gondra (in progress). The Syntax of Basque. Advisor: Dr. Elena Benedicto & Dr.
Bob Hammond.
Member of qualifying Ph.D. examination committees
Wei Zhang (2009), Kristin Carlson (2009), Ager Gondra (2010), Muriel Gallego
(2010), Miguel Rincon (2011). Claudia Castillo (2012).
Current and previous M.A. students (major professor)
Lauren Miller (in progress). The acquisition of tense and aspect in heritage Spanish.
Mariluz Ortiz (in progress). The bilingual acquisition of DOM in child and heritage
Spanish.
Elizabeth Barajas (2012). The L2 acquisition of definite and bare plurals in Spanishspeaking
learners of English L2.
Arnold Gamboa (2012). The L2 acquisition of Spanish gender among English-speaking
L2 learners.
Joshua Frank (2011). The acquisition of double-que questions in heritage Spanish.
Mara Barbosa (2011). Null objects in English L1/Portuguese L2 bilinguals.
Cezar Medeiros (2010). Contextual guessing and dictionary use in the L2 acquisition of
vocabulary in Portuguese.
Member of MA Thesis committees
Greer Trapkus (2009). Perceptions of a Foreign Language: A Study of Second Language
Learner Attitudes and Language Ideology.
Zully Pinilla (2010). Tendencias de mezclas de códigos: estudio de caso de un niño
bilingüe.
Claudia Sadowski (2011). A supplementary language curriculum proposal for elementary
and college level Spanish heritage language instruction.
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Chair and member of qualifying MA examination committees (without thesis)
Laura Williams (Chair, 2011), Melinda White (Chair, 2011), Alejandra Vela (Chair, 2011)
Andy Noelle (Chair, 2010), Eva Gutiérrez (Chair, 2011), Borja Ruíz de Arbulo (Member,
2010), Elizabeth Rees (Member, 2009).
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Summer 2012 Resident Director, Summer Abroad Program in Madrid.
Purdue University and Universidad Antonio de Nebrija.
2011-present Director, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Purdue.
2008-present Director, Advanced Spanish Program. Purdue.
2007-2008 Director, Spanish Basic Language Program. University of Illinois at
Chicago.
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENT
University and College
Community Advisory Board Member (2012-present). CLA
Senator, CLA. (2011-present)
Member, Diversity Action Committee. CLA. (2011-present)
Member, University Fulbright Committee (2011-2012 AY)
Department
Member of SLC Curriculum Committee (2012-present)
Member of Search Committee for School of Languages and Cultures Headship
(Fall 2012-Spring 2013)
Faculty Coordinator for Spanish Linguistics Program. SLC (Fall 2012-present)
Director, Summer Abroad Program in Madrid (Summer 2012)
Teacher Education Program Convener. College of Education (2012-present)
Director, Spanish for Heritage Speakers Program. SLC (2011- present).
Member, Search Committee for faculty member in Spanish Linguistics (Fall 2011).
Director, Advanced Spanish Program (301-302). SLC (2008- present).
Faculty Adviser for Spanish Service Learning. SLC (2008-present).
Faculty Adviser for Spanish Applied Linguistics (Fall 2008-present)
Member, Linguistic Committee, SLC (2008-present).
Chair, FLEA-BAR Exam Committee. SLC (2008-present).
Member, Graduate Committee, Linguistics (2009-present).
Member, Graduate Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Section (2009-present).
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Chair, Study Abroad Program Committee. SLC. (2010-present)
Co-organizer SLC Linguistic Workshop (Fall, 2010).
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE LEARNING ACTIVITIES
2008- present. Faculty Advisor for the Spanish Service Learning Program (SPAN 301-302)
2011-2012 Service Learning Faculty Development Grantee. Course: SPAN 398.
Community Partner: Delphi Elementary School. (funded project, $2,000)
SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Refereed journal articles reviewing (Ad hoc)
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Cambridge University Press. (2x)
Hispania. John Hopkins University Press. (2x)
Spanish in Context. John Benjamins Publishing Company. (1x)
Linguistics Approaches to Bilingualism. John Benjamins Publishing Company (2x)
Studies in Spanish and Lusophone Linguistics. (1x)
Refereed book chapters reviewing
Proceedings of the 6 th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Sara
Beaudrie and Ana Carvaho (Eds). Cascadilla Press.
Innovative research and practices in second language acquisition and bilingualism.
John Schwieter (Ed). John Benjamins. 2012.
Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition: Case Studies Across
Portuguese. Jason Rothman & Acrisio Pires (Eds.). Mouton de Gruyter. 2008.
Perspectivas teóricas y experimentales sobre el español de la Argentina. Laura
Colantoni & Celeste Rodriguez Louro (Eds.). Madrid: Iberoamericana.
Conference abstracts and proceedings
Conference proceedings:
Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. Cascadilla Press. 2004 (University of Western
Ontario).
Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. Cascadilla Press. 2011 (University of Georgia).
Conference abstract:
Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2004 (Western)
Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2012 (Florida).
GURT 2008 (Georgetown).
Romance Turn 2008 (Southampton, UK)
Ontario Dialogues for the Acquisition of Spanish 2006 (Toronto)
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Grant Evaluator (Ad hoc)
National Science Foundation (NSF). 2012
Teaching Incentive Grant Competition. College of Liberal Arts. Purdue. 2008.
Conference organizing committees
Language Symposium. University of Illinois at Chicago. 2008.
3 rd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology (LASP). University of
Toronto. 2006 (Laura Colantoni and Jeff Steele, organizers).
Ontario Dialogues for the Acquisition of Spanish. University of Toronto. 2006.
6th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA
2002). University of Ottawa. 2002.
Other
Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Union Representative. University of
Toronto. 2002-2003.
Member of Executive Committee. Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student
Association. University of Toronto. 2004.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
Association of Canadian Hispanists (ACH)
American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
Spanish (native)
English (near native)
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