·
Travel grant, XVII
Convención de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH), Università di Roma "La
Sapienza", Rome, Italy, July 2010.
· Travel grant, Workshop on Chinese Grammar in Contrast: Syntax and Acquisition (CHINOSAT) 2, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, October 2009.
· Travel grant, 17th Princeton Conference on Chinese Language Instruction, Princeton University, April 2009.
· Summer Research Grant for Tenure-Track Faculty, Loyola Marymount University, Summer 2008, $4000, When does transfer of morphology happen?: inchoative/intransitive structures in L2 English and L2 Spanish
· Summer Research Grant for New Tenure-Track Faculty, Loyola Marymount University, Summer 2006, $4000, What transfers first: Word order or interpretation? Periphrastic causatives in L2 English and L2 Spanish
· Dissertation Fellowship, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, University of Southern California, Summer 2005
· Outstanding Academic Achievement, Office of International Services, University of Southern California, May 2005
· Outstanding Leadership, Office of International Services, University of Southern California, May 2005
· Strategic Theme Fellowship, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, University of Southern California, Summer 2004
· Del Amo Full Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2003-2004
· Paula Menyuk Travel Award, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 28, 2003
· Merit Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Spring 2003
· Teaching Award, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Southern California, Summer 2001, Summer 2002, Summer 2003
· Del Amo Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Southern California, Fall 1999-Spring 2003
Reviewer
Books
·
Hualde, J.I., A.
Olarrea, and A.M. Escobar. Introducción a la Lingüística Hispánica. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, 2007
·
Roca, A. Nuevos
Mundos. 3rd edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2007.
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Introduction
to Spanish Linguistics textbook, Yale University Press, 2005
Journals
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Bilingualism:
Language and Cognition, 2009
·
Second
Language Research, 2009
·
Studies
in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Summer 2008
Edited volumes
·
EUROSLA yearbook 2010.
·
Third Language Acquisition and Universal
Grammar, Second Language
Acquisition Series, ed. by David Singleton, Multilingual Matters, 2007
·
University of Southern California Working
Papers in Linguistics (USCWPL), 2006, 2007
Abstracts
·
Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 36 2006, 37 2007, 38 2008, 39 2009, 40
2010
·
Bilbao Deusto (BIDE) Student Conference, 2005, 2006, 2007
·
Western
Conference in Linguistics (WECOL), 2004, 2008
Conference session chair
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS) 2008. Second Language Acquisition session. October 25th, 2008.
Service to the university
Loyola Marymount University
University
level
·
Committees:
Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty, Fall 2009-Spring 2012
Committee on Excellence in Teaching, Fall 2009-Spring 2012
Faculty Retention Toolkit Leadership Development Team, Office of Intercultural Affairs, Fall 2008-present
Frank Sullivan Social Justice Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2010
University-Wide Teacher Education Committee (substitute for Rebeca Acevedo), Fall 2006
· Other activities:
Participant in the Open House Program, 2008, 2010
Participant in the Latino Overnight 2008 Faculty Panel, Admissions Office, April 9th 2008
Co-host workshop Nuestra herencia: our responsibility at the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztán (M.E.Ch.A.) 11th Annual Raza High School Conference, November 17th, 2007
Participant in the Academic Community of Excellence (ACE) Faculty/Staff and Student mixer, October 25th 2007
Participant in the Preview Day Program, 2006, 2007
Proof-reader, Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, 2005-2008
Departmental
level
·
Committees:
Spanish Section Coordinator, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010
Applied Linguistics Search Committee, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fall 2008
Chair of the Assessment Committee, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fall 2006-present
· Other activities:
Co-organizer (with Gloria Orozco) Yuyachkani Unstaging Antígona performance, November 17th 2008
Proof-reader, La Voz, publication of the Spanish Club, 2008
Co-organizer (with Gloria Orozco) Yuyachkani Rosa Cuchillo performance, Bellarmine Forum, October 29th 2007
University of Southern California
· Publications coordinator, Graduate Students in Linguistics (GSiL), Fall 2004–Spring 2005, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
· Webmaster, USC Second Language Acquisition Group, 2003-2004, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
· Student organizer (with Eunjeong Oh & Milena Petrova), Language and Mind Conference III, "Knowledge of a Second Language: Epistemological and Empirical Issues", May 2-3, 2003, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
· Member of the Editorial Board (2003), Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
· President, Graduate Students in Linguistics (GSiL), Fall 2002 – Spring 2003, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
· Member of the Organization Committee, The Student Workshop 2002, April 29, 2002, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
· Organizer (with Nihan Ketrez), The Student Workshop 2001, April 30, 2001, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
·
Member of the Organization Committee, WCCFL XX,
February 23-25, 2001, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern
California
·
American
Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese (AATSP), 2008-Present
·
American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 2005-2006
·
Asociación
de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL), 2005-Present
·
Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH),
2008-Present
·
Linguistic
Society of America (LSA), 2003-Present
·
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2004-2006
·
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS),
Loyola Marymount University
Latina Colectiva, 2005-Present
·
National
Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC), 2004-2005