About
Emily is a 5th year PhD student of Linguistics conducting research on Spanish bilingualism, cognition, and humor. A member of the Computational Neurolinguistics Lab and a TEDxUMDearborn speaker, Emily focuses her research on advancing our understanding of the social and cognitive factors that influence how multilinguals produce and process language. In pursuing these research topics, she draws from an exciting combination of methodologies: sociolinguistic fieldwork, corpus analysis, survey research, artificial language learning experiments and neurolinguistic techniques (electroencephalogram). Her current work examines bilingual lexical processing, language attitudes towards Spanish-accented English in the U.S., and grammatical variation in Spanish-Quichua communities of Andean South America.
Emily is also passionate about teaching. She has taught and developed curricula for 600+ learners in multiple countries (South Korea, Ecuador, U.S.) across a range of ages (4-40 years) on courses spanning several disciplines (Linguistics, Cognitive Science, English, Spanish). At UM, she holds a position at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) and as the Linguistic Department’s Graduate Student Mentor (GSM), roles in which she trains new graduate student teachers on pedagogical strategies and provides guidance on instructional design.
