Teaching

I am a Lecturer of Linguistics at the University of California, Riverside (2016, 2019-), where I have taught LING 121 Syntax, LING 131 Morphology, LING 151 Semantics, LING 160E Dialectology, LING 160I Sociolinguistics, LING 162 (cross-listed as PSYC 128) Language and the Brain and LING 167 (cross-listed as ANTH 167) Structural/Descriptive Linguistics (i.e. History of Linguistics), as well as an Honors Ignition Seminar (HNPG17, HNPG18) entitled "Languages of the World".

During Summer 2024, I taught a Faculty-Led Education Abroad Program (FLEAP) in Madrid and Bilbao, Spain, including a field-methods based approach to Morphology (LING 131) with a Basque speaker in the classroom and Dialectology (LING 160F) exploring the history and sociolinguistics of languages in Spain. This program is currently being organized again for Summer 2026.

At California State University Fullerton in Spring 2021, I taught SPAN 530, Graduate Seminar: Historical Linguistics.

As a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, I was the primary instructor for LING 210 ‘Language History’, from Fall 2013 to Spring 2015. I was also a teaching assistant for LING 301 Syntax (Spring 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) and LING 307 Semantics (Fall 2012, Fall 2013). In addition to my experience in the classroom, I completed a Graduate Teacher Certificate through the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, UIUC, April 2015, and I was an official tutor for the EPI (English Proficiency Interview, a test for international TAs) via CITL (2010-2015).

I have also organized a weekly Beginners Research Group several years at UCR and UIUC to discuss research projects and weekly themes such as research methodology or how to submit to and present at a conference. Additionally, I have worked with and mentored undergraduate students for research projects at UCR and UIUC.

Beyond academia, I spent three months during the summer of 2011 as a volunteer teaching English in a public elementary school in Machala, El Oro, Ecuador.