Claudia Holguín Mendoza
Assistant Professor of Spanish / Coordinator of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
Contact info:
Office: FR 421
Office Hour: F 8-10 AM
Phone: (541) 346-6984
cholguin@uoregon.edu
Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2011, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
M.A. in Spanish Linguistics, 2004, New Mexico State University at Las Cruces
B.A. in Linguistics, 1998, University of Texas at El Paso
Research Interests
Committed to interdisciplinary research on language variation and change within specific socio-economic and political contexts. Interested in examining the causes of reproductions of racial formations, gender inequality, and traditional class divisions within language use and discourse, particularly in postcolonial Mexico, and the United States. Motivated to developing connections between research and community outreach initiatives.
Estoy comprometida a hacer investigación en variación lingüística dentro de contextos socioeconómicos y políticos específicos. Me interesa examinar las causas de la reprodución de formaciones raciales, desigualdad de género y divisiones de clase social en la lengua y el discurso, sobre todo en el México postcolonial y en los Estados Unidos. Me motiva crear conecciones entre la investigación y el activismo en las comunidades que estudio.
Publications
Holguín Mendoza, Claudia. 2011. Dining with the Devil: Identity Formations in Juarez, Mexico. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 18:5, 415-436.
Escobar, Anna María, María del Puy Ciriza y Claudia Holguín Mendoza. 2012. Capítulo 11: Lengua e Identidad. En Pragmática lingüística del español, ed. por Mercedes Niño-Murcia y Susana de los Heros. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
In progress
Book project: “Transnational Mexican Identities: Sociolinguistic Practices on the Borderlands”
“Implicit measures of dialectal attrition in Mexican Spanish in the US”
“Spanish on the Border: Caló in Ciudad Juárez”
“The use of pragmatic markers in Mexican Spanish”
Courses
Fall 2011 Spanish 308: Comunidades Bilingües
Winter 2012 Spanish 308: Comunidades Bilingües
Spring 2012 Spanish 420: Sociolinguistics in the US Borderlands