Teaching Philosophy and Courses

• Structural and applied linguistics in English and Spanish
• Beginning-level Spanish translation
• Jotería topics (Queer and trans Latin@ issues)

Research

• History of Spanish in the US Southwest
• Pedagogies of engagement
• Language revitalization and language policy
• Queer and trans Latin@ issues
• Autoethnography centered on intersections of ethnic identity, religion, and sexual orientation.

Publications

• Best Practices in Second Language Teaching. In Gross, J. (Ed.) Teaching Oregon Native Languages. OSU University Press.
• Building Communities and Making Connections (Ed. with Rivera-Mills, S.) Cambridge Scholars Publishing.