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Visiting Scholars

If you are interested in joining us as a Visiting Scholar, please contact one of the core faculty members: Previous Visiting Scholars

Katie O'Donnell Chistoffersen
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Katie primary research interests are bilingualism, sociolinguistics and language acquisition, especially the use of Spanish, Portuguese and English among young children. Her dissertation research investigated the grammatical, discursive and identity-related patterns of code-switching among young bilingual children in a Spanish immersion classroom in the southwest of the United States. Visit Katie O'Donnell's webpage.