She serves as a Language Program Director and as a Teaching Assistant Coordinator for the Spanish division of the Department of Modern Languages. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses She earned her Ph.D. In Applied Linguistics-Spanish from Purdue University, where she also completed her master's degree in Latin American Literature and a graduate certificate in English as a Second Language. Her current research interest include Theories of Second Language Acquisition, Foreign/Second Language Pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy and Sociolinguistics (Variationism, Dialectology, and Language in Contact).