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Multidisciplinary Symposium on
University of Aruba / 19 & 20 September 2018
Academic Work Samples
Below you will find a few of my academic publications and presentations as well as course syllabi.
Language and Society
Syllabus (click to view)​
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This is a new course that I created and taught at the University of Aruba (2017-2023). Most Arubans learn to speak several languages since childhood, but they are seldom asked to engage in reflective and critical thinking about their linguistic situation -- is it unique? Moreover, many students grow up hearing myths and half-truths about languages and "dialects", about how some languages are more "valuable" and "beautiful" than others.
In addition, the course touched upon language-related topics that piqued their curiosity, such as sign languages and invented languages (Dothraki, Elvish, etc.) seen in global media.
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Multilingual Identities: The Chinese Diaspora in Puerto Rico
Slides (click to view)
Presentation delivered at the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015
Subaltern Currents and Transgressive Waves: Trans-Oceanic Agents and 'Creole Languages'
Published Paper
Co-authored with Nicholas Faraclas, Ph.D.
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In: Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities (2023)
Open Access https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1046
Heidelberg University (Germany)​
Including Caribbean Languages in the World Loanword Database
Published paper (click to view)
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​In: Caribbean without Borders: Beyond the Can[n]on’s Range, edited by Maria del Carmen Quintero Aguilo. Gabriel J. Jimenez Fuentes, Marisol Joseph-Haynes, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez and Diana Ursulin Mopsis (2015). Cambridge Scholars Publishing; pp. 203-212.