I understand language as part of our everyday experience and part of different semiotic systems we use to produce meaning, to relate with others, and to negotiate our space in the world. I work with the interface of the political in language, its materiality and its relationship with technology and geography. My main research focus has been language and gender. I have also worked with fashion and ecology, and language globalization.
speaking
- 2022 Language in a Digital World. Second Feminist Edit-a-thon. Indisciplinadxs. September 28
- 2022 Different approaches to naming gender-inclusive language in Spanish: A data-driven contribution to the transnational debate. With Ernesto Cuba. Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language. A multinational perspective [online]. Queen Mary University of London. September 8-9. Available online.
- 2021 Gender-Fair Language in Perspective. Academic Conference on Gender Neutral Language and Scientific Communication [online]. Autonomous University of Baja California (Mexico), November 25
- 2021 Experiences from the First Spanish Feminist Linguistics Edith-a-thon. With Ernesto Cuba & Mariana Favila-Alcalá. Digitorium. University of Alabama Digital Humanities Conference [online], October 1-3
- 2021 Indisciplinadxs: Building a Feminist Linguistics from Latin America. with Ernesto Cuba. Glottopolitics Hotbed, Caro and Cuervo Institute (Colombia), April 21.
- 2021 Talk: Gender-Fair Language in the Publications of the Journal Reflexiones. University of Costa Rica. March 23
- 2021 Indisciplinadxs: Building a Feminist Linguistics from Latin America. with Ernesto Cuba. D(eco)nstructing, Decoloniazing and Democratizing Knowledge: Discourses from Spanish and Portuguese Speaking World [online]. University of Colorado Boulder, March 12-13
- 2019 Talk. Gender-Fair Language in Academic and Scientific Journals. University of Costa Rica, July 17
- 2019. Women in the Institutional News by the Provost’s Office of the University of Costa Rica. II Conference: Feminisms, Gender, and Communication. University of Costa Rica, June 4-6
- 2018 Gender-Fair Language as Language Planning. The case of the University of Costa Rica. 9th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Queens College, CUNY
writing
- In progress. Marking Gender in Spanish:A Guide for Language Learners
- 2022. Interview to Rebeca Lane: Voice, Body, and Territory. LL Journal 17.
- 2022.Contributions to Feminist Linguistics Dossier: An Undisciplined Experience, Eds. Paula Salerno & Natalia Villarroel Torres. In LL Journal 17.
- 2021. Gender Neutral Language as an Epistemological Opportunity in Academic Writing, with Ernesto Cuba. In Academic Writing with Gender Perspective. Proposals from Scientific Communication. Coord. César Jiménez- Yañez & Rosalba Mancinas-Chávez. Autonomous University of Baja California & University of Sevilla [peer reviewed]
- 2021. Climate Change as Opportunity? Framing National Identity through Marketing Carbon Neutrality. LL Journal 16
- 2020. The impact of Covid-19 in the Latinx bookshops in NYC. With Rosalía Reyes Simon.LL Journal 15(1)
- 2020. What Language Do We Work With? In Profession through the Looking Glass: Reflections by Costa Rican Professionals on Philology and Linguistics. Eds. Natalia Castro Salgado & Silvia Rivera Alfaro. San José, Costa Rica: La Voz Activa
- 2019. Being a Team with the Communities of Costa Rica: Interview to Carlos Sánchez Alvarado. LL Journal 14(2)
- 2019. Linguistic Planning at the University of Costa Rica: Gender Fair Use of Language Policy, its Execution, and Relationship to Proposals of Spanish Speaking Universities. Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica, 45(2) [peer reviewed]
- 2019. Gender Fair Use of Language Linguistic Policy and the Scientific Journals of the University of Costa Rica (UCR). with Eida Martínez Rocha. e-Ciencias de la Información 9(2). [peer reviewed]
- 2019. Language, Fashion, and Ecology: Unraveling Discourse Collectively. In Language and Biodiversity: New Perspectives on Old Inequalities. Ed. Diego Forte Buenos Aires: Ecolingüística Argentina.
- 2016. Learning Spanish from Telenovelas?: a Contribution from the Perspective of the Romanian Audience. Revista de Lenguas Modernas, 25, 411-423.
Media coverage
- 2023 About Why Feminist Linguistics is Needed. Tradhumanas de Nuestramérica [Podcast interview]. Argentina-México, November 25.
- 2022 Telenovelas, an unexpected Spanish school. Alfonso Cobo Espejo. Archiletras (Spain). September 22.
- 2021 1×01 Gender and Language. Plurilingual & Pluriculturales: A Newsletter on Critical Language Education (Issue II: lengua y género) [Podcast interview]. USA, July 22
- 2021 Gender-Fair Language. Genera Género. [Radio interview]. Mexico, June 23