University Level

Instructor of Record

  • First-Year Spanish I (SPA 101, Syracuse University)

  • First-Year Spanish II (SPA 102, Syracuse University; SPN610, UT Austin)

  • Second-Year Spanish III (SPA 201, Syracuse University)

  • Second-Year Spanish IV (SPA 202, Syracuse University)

  • Spanish Intermediate Conversation (SPA 211, Syracuse University)

  • Academic English Level 2 (High beginner, English Language Institute at Syracuse)

  • Academic English Level 3 (Intermediate, English Language Institute at Syracuse)

  • Academic English Level 5 (Advanced, English Language Institute at Syracuse)

  • Introducción a la fonología y fonética del español (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

  • Introducción a la lingüística hispana (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

  • Español en Contexto I (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

  • Racial Linguistics (University of Texas, Austin)

Description: Raciolinguistics is the study of "languaging race" and "racing language" (Alim, 2016). The central question organizing the study of raciolinguistics has been posed as "What does it mean to speak as a racialized subject in contemporary America?" In the United States there exists a complex relationship between race, power, and politics. While it has been widely accepted that discrimination based on phenotypical (physical) race categorizations should be prohibited in institutional and public spaces, Zentella (2016) notes that race has in fact been remapped from biology onto language. Racial remapping results in a hierarchical ranking and stigmatization of language varieties. I would argue that racialization extends far beyond the boundaries of the U.S. nation state and thus, raciolinguistics must include a discussion of how language is used and understood to racialize humans in general. This course explores literature related to racial and linguistic ideologies affecting the racialized communities across the United States. This course will engage processes entailed in the remapping of language from biology onto language and the consequences of that change. The course is interdisciplinary and uses texts drawn from fields including, but not limited to, linguistics, sociology, psychology, race and ethnic studies, and history. The central question of the course relies on an exploration of what language means to racialized subjects. Students will develop the ability to theorize race through linguistic analysis. They will be able to demonstrate the intersections between race, gender, class and power in a variety of contexts that move beyond the histories of any particular nation.

Teaching Assistant

  • Mellon Mays Undergraduate Program (Fall 2018, Summer 2020)

International (Madrid, Spain)

  • English as a second language: Levels 1 -5

  • TOEFL Prep

  • IELTS Prep

High School

  • Spanish for Native Speakers

  • Spanish as a foreign language – Level 1, 2, 3

  • Microsoft Excel for Students

  • Professional Decision Making

  • Professional Skills for Corporate Work Spaces

Administrative

  • Admissions and Program Consultant: Boys Hope Girls Hope New York, Breakthrough New York

  • High School Admissions Director: Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School

  • Fulbright Language Teaching Orientation Assistant Director: Syracuse University

  • Administrative Assistant for the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Language Teaching, Syracuse University