Teaching
University of Connecticut 🇺🇸
Instructor of record for The study of language, culture, and their relationship. Topics include the evolution of the human language capacity; the principles of historical language change including reconstruction of Indo-European and Native American language families; writing systems; linguistic forms such as Pidgins and Creoles arising from languages in contact; the interaction between language and political systems, the struggle for human rights, gender, ethnicity, and ethnobiology.
W = Writing Competency
Fall 2024
Instructor of record for An introduction to the methods and major findings of linguistic research as applied to the sound systems of languages and the structure and meaning of words and sentences.
Q = Quantitave Competency
Fall 2023, Fall 2021
Instructor of record for Discussion of nature-nurture debate with specific reference to language acquisition. Pros and cons of Chomsky's Innateness Hypothesis.
Summer 2022
Discussion Section Leader for Discussion of nature-nurture debate with specific reference to language acquisition. Pros and cons of Chomsky's Innateness Hypothesis.
Fall 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2023 (Instructor: Jon Gajewski)
Spring 2026 (Magdalena Kaufman)
Spring 2024, Fall 2022 (Harry van der Hulst)
TA for Origins of and current developments within scientific study of the mind-brain. Topics include: computational theories of mind, artificial and natural intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and the mind/body problem, embodied and distributed cognition, neural networks, self-organizing cognitive systems, learning and innateness.
Spring 2022 (Instructors: Rachel Theodore, William Snyder)
TA for An introduction to the methods and major findings of linguistic research as applied to the sound systems of languages and the structure and meaning of words and sentences.
Spring 2021 (Instructor: Željko Bošković)
Fall 2020 (Instructor: Magdalena Kaufman)
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) 🇧🇷
TA for Phonetics and Phonology
2019 (Instructor: Filomena Sandalo)
University of São Paulo (USP) 🇧🇷
TA for Introduction to Linguistics II
2018 (Instructor: Marcelo Ferreira)
TA for Non-Indo-European Languages
2017 (Instructor: Esmeralda Negrão)
TA for Morphology
2016 (Instructor: Ana Paula Scher)