Natalia Villarroel-Torres

(She/her)

Natalia is a sociolinguist, professor, and Ph.D. student in the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Program at the City University of New York (CUNY).

Social

Contact

nvillarroel@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Website

www.linguisticafeminista.com/natalia-villarroel-torres/

Education

  • Natalia is a PhD student in the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Program at the City University of New York (CUNY). She earned her bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature and her master’s degree in Linguistics at the University of Chile, between 2011 and 2018. In 2019, Natalia completed a certificate in Higher Education and Didactics at the Central University of Chile, where she also taught courses related to education, language, and literacy from a sociolinguistic perspective.
  • Currently, Natalia teaches sociolinguistics and Spanish to heritage speakers at Lehman College (CUNY) and is also a fellow in the Humanities Alliance educational project at the Graduate Center, where she connects her teaching and linguistic work with the educational practice of Global and Experiential Learning (GEL) at LaGuardia Community College.

Publications

For more information about her publications, visit her ORCID profile:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8697-8541

Positions

Adjunct Professor, Languages and Literatures, Lehman College
Adjunct Professor, Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College
Fellow, Global and Experiential Learning Office (GEL), LaGuardia Community College

Projects

Grants

Open Knowledge Fellowship 2022 – MINA REES LIBRARY (CUNY)

  • Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant – Graduate Center, CUNY.
  • Humanities Alliance Fellow 2023– Graduate Center, CUNY.
  • Emerging Open Scholarship Award 2024.

Academic Interests

Natalia’s research interests include critical discourse studies, glottopolitics, feminist linguistics, and studies on archives and memory.