Department of Spanish and Portuguese

About Sabrina Grimberg

Sabrina T. Grimberg earned a Licenciatura en Letras from the University of Buenos Aires and an MA in Linguistics from Stanford University. In her teaching, she combines her native Spanish expertise with her background in theoretical linguistics. Sabrina uses a communicative approach and proficiency-based instruction: her teaching focuses on developing students’ interpersonal and presentational skills, utilizing task-based teaching and active learning strategies like flipping the classroom and think-pair-share activities. She also enjoys incorporating technology and gamification to help develop students’ oral communication skills and build classroom community.

Sabrina aims to create an inclusive classroom environment where all learners feel welcome and safe. She works to create inclusive course policies and class dynamics, as well as adjust class materials to showcase different dimensions of diversity. She often highlights comparisons between Spanish-speaking regions regarding linguistic aspects and cultural traditions, and brings attention to people, places, and issues that are usually overlooked in traditional Spanish classrooms. 

Sabrina’s research interests encompass a wide array of topics in linguistics, including morphosyntactic doubling in Spanish and other languages, determiner systems in Romance languages, and linguistic variation across the Spanish-speaking world, as well as morphosyntactic issues in Ladino and Yiddish.

Before joining Indiana University, Sabrina worked as a lecturer in the Spanish Language Program at Stanford University, where she taught various Spanish language classes and supervised the first year accelerated sequence. She has also co-taught linguistics classes at Stanford.