Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Leslie Del Carpio is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Heritage Language and Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research interests include Spanish Heritage Language Research and Pedagogy, sociolinguistics, critical language awareness, and Spanish in the US. Her work focuses on promoting the use of Spanish in the United States and linguistic empowerment. Her research also extends to Peruvian and Ecuadorian Spanish, analyzing the variation in morphosyntactic variables. She is a co-principal investigator in a project named Peruzonians: A Living Archive of the Peruvian Migrant Experience in Arizona whose mission is to celebrate and foster interculturality by empowering the sense of identity among Peruvian migrants in Arizona. She has published in peer-review journals such as the Journal of Pragmatics, Spanish in Context, Languages, and the Spanish and Portuguese Review.