About Alexandra:
Alexandra Roman Irizarry is a doctoral candidate in Education specializing in Human
Development in Context. Her work examines how cognitive and social factors moderate
sociolinguistic variation through the use of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic
techniques. She is particularly interested in examining gender processing, both
grammatical and social, in different communities of Spanish-English bilinguals.
Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Alexandra received her BA in Foreign Languages –French,
Mandarin, Japanese– and Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio
Piedras. Alexandra is also an NSF GRFP fellow and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate
Fellowship Alumni.
Looking for:
Alexandra is looking for RAs that are interested in studying sociolinguistic variation
through psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches. She is also interested in
recruiting RA’s that are interested in studying topics that relate to language and gender
in different languages.
Website: To learn more about Alexandra’s research topics, visit her website:
https://www.aromanirizarry.com/