University of Wisconsin - Madison
Biography Oscar Almonte García is a PhD student of Spanish Linguistics and a Spanish TA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He graduated from Millikin University with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and has obtained an Associate of Arts in Spanish and French, along with an Associate of Science in biology from the College of …
Biography Alan is a Mexican PhD student in Latin American literatures, cultures, and politics. He holds a BA in Political Science from ITAM (Mexico) and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. His research examines the narratives and strategies employed by individuals and collectives to resist authoritarianism in Latin …
Biography Letícia Barbosa is pursuing a PhD in Portuguese culture and literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also earned a Master’s in Portuguese. Since 2021, she has taught Portuguese in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and expanded her teaching to include UW’s Continuing Studies program in 2023. She has also contributed to …
Biography Estefanía Galindo-Navarro is a PhD candidate in Spanish Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She joined the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UW–Madison in Fall 2021, where she has worked as a Spanish teaching assistant in intermediate-level language courses as well as a project assistant. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Foreign Languages …
Biography Research Interests: Romance linguistics, language variation and change, phonology, morphology, language contact, multilingualism
Biography Andrés Correal is a PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include heritage language education, language variation, language ideologies, and Spanish language pedagogy. His current research examines how Spanish instructors evaluate U.S. heritage speaker Spanish, with particular attention to the relationship between instructors’ professional preparation, language ideologies, and …