Spanish linguistics; applied linguistics; Portuguese linguistics
Presentations include: "Understanding the Other Through International Cinema," at the North American Christian Foreign Language Association's 19th Conference World Languages: Reading the World, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego (2009); a paper, "What?! My Spanish professor is a student in your French Class?", at the 18th Annual Conference of North American Christian Foreign Language Association (2008); Variación del modo verbal en español y la teoría de la implicatura conversacional generalizada: evidencia de la interfaz entre la pragmática y la estructura gramatical" at the International Pragmatics Conference, Toronto, Canada (2003); "Mood Variation in Spanish and the Generalized Conversational Implicature Theory: Evidence of the Interplay of Pragmatics with Grammatical Structure" at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Surrey, Guildford, England (2002).
