I am a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish Linguistics at the University of Houston, where I also serve as Spanish L2 Program Coordinator and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Hispanic Studies. My research examines bilingual speech and language processing, with particular attention to how bilingual experience interacts with linguistic structure, lexical characteristics, task conditions, and individual speaker histories.

Working primarily with Spanish–English bilinguals and speakers of Spanish as a heritage language, I use experimental production and perception tasks, lexical-retrieval measures, acoustic analysis, and quantitative methods. My doctoral research investigates lexical stress production and perception within the same heritage speakers, allowing me to examine relationships across production and perception while considering variation across speakers, tasks, languages, and lexical conditions.

I also conduct scholarship in second-language pedagogy and curriculum design, particularly in oral production, task design, assessment, and technology-mediated language instruction. My program-level work at the University of Houston includes curriculum alignment, instructor development, assessment design, and synchronous and asynchronous language instruction.