Department of Spanish and Portuguese

I am a Lecturer in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. I have taught a wide variety of language and linguistics courses, as well as courses on intercultural competence. My areas of interest are phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. More specifically, my research interest lies on how speakers use different linguistic devices (i.e., intonation) to signal politeness.

Publications

Articles in refereed Journals

• Staszkiewicz, B. (under review). Analyzing the effect of contextual variables on final nuclear contours of polar questions.
• Staszkiewicz, B., Czerwionka, L., & Concu, V. (in press). The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests. Journal of Politeness Research.
• Czerwionka, L., Staszkiewicz, B., & Shamloo, F. (2023). Contextual variables as predictors of verb form: An analysis of gender and stance in Peninsular Spanish requests. Languages 8(202), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030202

Articles in refereed conference proceedings

• Staszkiewicz, B. (2024) Speech rate correlates with politeness in Spanish offers. Proc. Speech Prosody 2024, 767–771. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-155
• Joshi, S., Davis, K., Shermadou, A., & Staszkiewicz, B. (2022). Exploring how engineering students respond to challenges while working in global virtual teams. 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). Frontiers in Education, Uppsala, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.1109/fie56618.2022.9962438 
• Joshi, S., Staszkiewicz, B., Peach, N., Montalvo, F. J., Davis, K., & Tort, J. (2022). Global learning at home: Understanding students’ experiences in global virtual team projects. 9^th Research in Engineering Education Symposium. Perth, Australia. https://doi.org/10.52202/066488-0099