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Interests

I'm currently a third-year undergraduate student at UC Santa Barbara majoring in Spanish and Linguistics (sociocultural emphasis). My academic interests center on Hispanic linguistics, electronic discourse, corpus linguistics, language pedagogy, and bilingualism and language contact. I'm also a casual student of film and Spanish-American literature and thought.

Research

• &bull With Stefan Th. Gries, k dixez: A corpus-based study of Spanish Internet orthography (forthcoming)
  
  

  Some UCSB papers

  All papers are in web format.
  
  

• • Review of “Lexical repulsion between sense-related pairs” by Antoinette Renouf and Jayeeta Banerjee
  (Linguistics 120, Spring 2008)
  
  

• • Una realidad sucia y cotidiana: Images of Urban Modernity in Pizza, birra, faso and Amores perros (Film Studies 127, Winter 2008)
  
  

• • Enterrado pero vivo: el elemento prehispánico en el cuento mexicano contemporáneo (Spanish 138, Fall 2007)
  
  

  Other work

• • 120 Years of Transit: In Eureka, civic pride and public transit go way back (pdf). In Community Wheel (Fall 2008): 6.
  
  

Résumé

• Résumé as of September 2008 (HTML)