Academic interests
I am an educational linguist with international experience researching, teaching and consulting on bilingual education, Indigenous language revitalization and language planning and policies informed by ethnographic and participatory methodologies. As an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, I currently research new speakers and Indigenous language reclamation in higher education in Perú from comparative Indigenous perspectives.
Background
PhD Educational Linguistics, 2019, University of Pennsylvania, USA
MA Intercultural Communication, 2018, University of Pennsylvania, USA
BA Sociology/Anthropology and Educational Studies, 2010, Swarthmore College, USA
Courses taught
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
- Applied Linguistics and Education (masters level)
- Ethnography of Language Planning and Policy Seminar (Winter School) (masters level)
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
- Qualitative Research Methodologies (masters level)
- Linguistic rights and intercultural bilingual education policy (masters level)
- Sociolinguistic Diversity in Perú (undergraduate level)
- English I, IV (undergraduate level)
- Communication in Spanish (undergraduate level)
- Thesis I, II (undergraduate level)
Awards
- CAE Concha Delgado Gaitán Presidential Fellow (2020-2021)
- Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Frederick Erickson Outstanding Dissertation Award (2019). "Youth bilingualism, identity and Quechua language planning and policy in the urban Peruvian Andes".
Positions held
- Lecturer of Intercultural Bilingual Education at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima-Perú (2018-21).
- Lecturer, Linguistics Masters Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2019).
Publications
2021. (with V. Zavala). Una mirada al lenguaje desde los repertorios, registros y recursos de los hablantes. Textos. Didáctica de la lengua y de la literatura. 94 – Octubre 21.
2021. Bilingüismo e identidad juvenil: aportes etnográficos para la enseñanza del quechua en secundarias urbanas y para una EIB urbana. Revista Peruana de Investigación Educativa, 13(14), 25-52. https://doi.org/10.34236/rpie.v13i14.292
2021. Llegando a secundaria les ha dado amnesia…ya no quieren hablar: Indigenous speakerhood socialization and the creation of language deniers in Quechua education. Linguistics and Education, 61, 100888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2020.100888
2019. (with N. Hornberger) Mapping biliteracy teaching in Indigenous contexts: from student shyness to student voice. Anthropology and Education Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12276
2018. (with N. Hornberger, A. Anzures Tapia, D. Hanks and S. Lee) Ethnography of language planning and language policy. Language Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444817000428
2015. Negotiating ideological and implementational spaces for Indigenous languages in Peru. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 30(2), 21-41. https://repository.upenn.edu/wpel/vol30/iss1/2
Research dissemination
2021. Educando desde la diversidad lingüística en la FAEDU: reflexiones de una sistematización de aula. Boletín digital FAEDU-UPCH. November. https://faedu.cayetano.edu.pe/noticias/2341
2020. Creating Language Deniers in Quechua Education. Anthropology News website, June 17. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/creating-language-deniers-in-quechua-education/
2016. Entre Brechitas y Carreteras: The possibilities of museum-led Maya language education in the Yucatan Peninsula. Penn Museum Blog. https://www.penn.museum/blog/museum/entre-brechitas-y-carreteras-the-possibilities-of-museum-led-maya-language-education-in-the-yucatan-peninsula-frances-kvietok/