I am a faculty member in the Linguistics Program and the director of the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) at the Graduate Center. I teach courses in applied linguistics and heritage languages. My interest is in language education, and within this larger field, literacy development, heritage language education, and the teaching and learning of literature. From 2014 to 2018, I was the director of the Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC), a National Language Resource Center. Before coming to New York, I directed the Foreign Languages Program at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. I hold a degree in Classical Studies from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Language and Literature from Boston University (Boston, MA).