- Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish and Coordinator
- Email: judyd@uri.edu
- Office Location: Swan Hall 139
Biography
Dr. Judy de Oliveira teaches Spanish and linguistic courses in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. She is also the Beginning and Intermediate Spanish Language Program Coordinator.
Research
Her research interests include sociolinguistics, dialectology, language contact, second language acquisition and applied linguistics. She works with native and heritage speakers of Spanish and Portuguese and studies on various linguistic phenomena to document the linguistic varieties of Portuguese and Spanish spoken in New England.
Education
Ph.D, Hispanic Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
M.A., Spanish, University of Rhode Island
B.A., Portuguese and Spanish, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth