Dr. Ana M. Carvalho currently serves as the Chair of the SLAT Program and is a Professor of Portuguese and Spanish Linguistics within the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She is also a faculty member in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program (SLAT), and holds courtesy appointments in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Linguistics. She has served as the Director of the Portuguese Language Program and as the Graduate Advisor for SLAT.
Her academic work is rooted in the fields of sociolinguistics, languages in contact, and bilingualism. In these fields, she carries out research mainly related to language variation and change. She is especially intrigued by the development of parallel variable grammars in situations of prolonged language contact on borderlands.
Dr. Carvalho welcomes students in her classes and in her office who share the same research interests. She also welcomes students interested in all branches of the sociolinguistic dimensions of language studies, including language attitudes, language ideology, code-switching, sociolinguistic corpus building, and the application of LVC methods to language and dialect acquisition. As the Chair of the SLAT Program, she is committed to fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and intellectually rich SLAT community.
Outside academia, she enjoys family life, yoga, fiction, traveling, and cooking.
Most of her publications are available here: https://arizona.academia.edu/AnaCarvalho