My current research interests include the development of academic language in bilingual contexts.
My area of specialisation is Spanish as a heritage language and English as a second language in the U.S.
I am particularly interested in describing the lexico-grammatical and discursive features that signal membership in an academic community using the Systemic Functional Linguistics framework.
In addition, I am exploring the process by which members of an academic community move from being newcomers to full participants in it, particularly focusing on the role language plays in this learning process. This work is connected to the design of materials for the development of critical language awareness.
The other strand of my research is socio-political discourse analysis. I have done critical discourse analysis of recent historical events such as the 1970s military dictatorships in the Southern Cone and the events of Sept. 11th as seen from Latin America.
I recently published a monograph What we remember: The construction of military memory (2008) for John Benjamins' Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture Series.
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