Laura Callahan

Prof. Callahan joined the faculty at the City College in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures as Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in 2003. She became a member of the doctoral faculty in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages in 2006. Her research has focused on language attitudes, codeswitching, and heritage language maintenance. Her publications include the book Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus (John Benjamins 2004), and articles in Hispania, Language & Communication, Sintagma: Revista de Lingüística, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Intercultural Pragmatics, and the International Multilingual Research Journal (in press). She has also taught at UC Berkeley, San José State University, Michigan State University, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS), Graduate Center, CUNY.