• Ph.D. in Linguistics (Hispanic Linguistics), 2007

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Dissertation: “Register and Style Variation in Speakers of Spanish as a Heritage and as a Second Language” (Abstract)

Dissertation Chair: Professor Carmen Silva-Corvalán          

• M.A. in Linguistics (Hispanic Linguistics), 2003

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Thesis: “Progressive Forms in Contact: A Study of Spanish Progressive Constructions in Los Angeles”

• B.A. English Philology, 2000

University of Salamanca, Spain

(English Linguistics and Literature with minors in French and Italian)

• Erasmus Year, English Literature and Linguistics, 1997-1998

University of Exeter, U.K.