Sara Fernández Cuenca

Dr. Sara Fernández Cuenca (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), is an Assistant Professor of Spanish, affiliated faculty member in the Linguistics Minor, and faculty member of the Laboratory of Variation and Spanish Language Change (LVCE). She teaches courses in Spanish language, conversation, as well as in linguistics, and was the resident professor for the Spanish immersion study abroad program in Salamanca (Spain) in the AY 2021-2022.

Sara’s research interests include instructed heritage and second language acquisition, bilingual sentence processing, and Spanish subjunctive mood acquisition. More recently, she has explored new areas of research such as Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), and the representation of the Spanish of the US in Higher Education, as the result of collaborations with WF undergraduate students who wanted to expand their knowledge on Hispanic linguistics. Together with Dr. Lauren Miller, Dr. Fernández Cuenca founded the podcast Multilingual Mamas, which is intended as a resource for families who want to raise their children multilingual and features some members of the WF and WS community. You can listen to it here.

• SPA 111: Elementary Spanish I
• SPA 112: Elementary Spanish II
• SPA 301: Intensive Spanish (co-taught in Salamanca)
• SPA 303: Spanish Conversation
• SPA 309: Grammar and Composition
• SPA 379: Special Topics in Hispanic Linguistics: The Spanish of the US

Fernández Cuenca CV