PhD Candidate Hispanic Linguistics Teaching Assistant of Spanish Hola! My name is Eliot Westdorp and I am a PhD candidate in the Hispanic Linguistics program as well as a Spanish TA at the University of Georgia. My areas of study include sociolinguistics (language variation and change, dialectology, bilingualism, language contact, language attitudes), L2 pronunciation acquisition, and applied linguistics with my focus on languages of the Iberian Peninsula. Research Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Bilingualism, Language Contact, Language Attitudes, Applied Spanish Linguistics Grants: Sigma Delta Pi Graduate Research Grant 2025 Future Faculty Fellows - 2024 cohort Dolores Artau Scholarship 2023 Wilson Center Research Grant 2022 Summer Dissertation Research Grant 2022 Frequently Taught Courses Courses Regularly Taught: SPAN 1001 SPAN 1002 SPAN 1002E SPAN 1110 SPAN 2001 SPAN 2002 Selected Publications Selected Publications: González-Ferrer, M; Johnson, J.G.; Westdorp, E. (2022). The historicalevolution of the Spanish discourse marker Pues from the 16th century.International Virtual Conference on Language and Literature Proceeding, 6-21. E-ISSN: 2746-8402 Education Education: B.A. in Spanish and Applied Linguistics, Grand Valley State University (2016) M.A. in Applied Spanish Linguistics, Michigan State University (2020)
