Tags: Romance Languages

(Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2010) Research (my ORCID) I specialize in syntax, which means that I study sentence structure and word order. In my research, I seek to discover insight on how language structure is represented within the human mind—in monolinguals as well as bilinguals/multi-linguals. I do this by focusing on a variety of constructions in language.  My current research interests include the syntactic reflexes of information…
I am a scholar of early modern Spanish literature and culture. My research examines the literary and religious writings of the Spanish Empire, and how these forms continue to inform global culture and collective experience today. My publications include Heretical Mixtures: Feminine and Poetic Opposition to Matter-Spirit Dualism in Spain, 1531–1631, and a critical edition of Francisco de Osuna’s Norte de los estados, a Franciscan conduct…