Is professor of Spanish linguistics at Portland State University, where she has been part of the Dept. of World Languages and Literatures since 2002. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Salamanca (Spain). Her main field of research focuses primarily on Spanish historical linguistics and on applied linguistics (language variation, text analysis, and translation). Her recent publications include Diachronic applications of Hispanic linguistics (2016), Fundaments of the history of the Spanish language (2012), Fundaments of Spanish phonetics and phonology, (2012, 2005), and A Spanish version of Troilus and Cressida: a bilingual edition (2008). She has also published numerous articles in peer reviewed international journals such as Hispanófila, Linguistica, Hispanic Research Journal, Romance Studies, Languages for Specific Purposes, IJ Lasso, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.
