Year Admitted: 2022
Bio:
I am a PhD student in ELL and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My current research explores the gender agreement perceptions of heritage speakers of Spanish, particularly focusing on article-noun agreement patterns. I also engage in psycholinguistic research using eye-tracking technology to investigate the parsing of ambiguous relative clauses in English-Spanish bilinguals. In the future I hope to incorporate Visual World Paradigm (VWP) in order to analyze the predictive processing of Spanish heritage speakers. My current Gender & Women’s Studies research focuses on “queering” nationalism in Puerto Rico as a neo-colonial setting. This project examines how queer identities can serve to disrupt the traditional hetero-patriarchal notions of nationalism and national identities as a tool to resisting colonialism.
Interests:
Queer Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Heritage Language Speakers