Members

COORDINATORS

 Universiteit Gent (UGent) renata.enghels@ugent.be
Professor in the Department of Spanish Linguistics
Teaching Lingüística Española I, II, III
Teaching Español en contacto y contrasto
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Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801001598941
Research keywords:
  multilingualism & multiculturalism
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
– migration and displacement
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) diana.castilleja@vub.be
Publications:
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/diana-castilleja/publications/
Research keywords:
– space, place, & borders
– identity construction
– migration and displacement
 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) an.vande.casteele@vub.be
Publications:
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/an-vande-casteele/publications/
Research keywords:
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
– foreign language acquisition
– multilingualism and multiculturalism

MEMBERS

Senior Researchers

Universiteit Gent (UGent) ilse.logie@ugent.be
Professor in the Department of Hispanic Literature
Teaching Literatura hispanoamericana I, II
Teaching Spanish and Spanish-American Civilization
Teaching Special Topics: Contemporary Spanish-American Literature

Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801002040996
Research keywords:
space, place, & borders
– identity construction
– multilingualism & multiculturalism
Universiteit Gent (UGent) robert.hartsuiker@ugent.be
Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology
Teaching Introduction to psycholinguistics
Teaching Advances in psycholinguistics
Teaching Fundamentals of psychology

Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801001646027
Research keywords:
– Foreign language acquisition
– multilingualism & multiculturalism
 University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) imivanova@utep.edu
Professor in the Department of Psychology
Teaching Language and cognition
Teaching Cognitive Psychology

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Publications:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Iva-Ivanova-2/research
Research keywords:
– identity construction
– multilingualism & multiculturalism

 

Junior Fellows

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) mariela.andrade@vub.be
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Marcas identitarias en redes sociales:
el Spanglish en el discurso de youtubers hispanounidenses.
Publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3833-4279
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Catalina Fuentes Rodriguez
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co-supervisor:
Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
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Research keywords:
– identity construction
– contact linguistics & codeswitching

Universiteit Gent (UGent) simon.claassen@ugent.be
Ph.D. Dissertation:
An integrative account of codeswitching. Reconciling structural, sociolinguistic and cognitive factors.
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/000231401479
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Renata Enghels 
co-supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Robert Hartsuiker
Prof. Dr. María del Carmen Parafita Couto
Dr. Osmer Balam
Research keywords:
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
– multilingualism & multiculturalism
Universiteit Gent (UGent) laurence.debacker@ugent.be
Ph.D. Dissertation:
On the (not so) persuasive potential of metaphorical language in news media communication.
Framing the Latin American migration debate through metaphor.
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/802003609850
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Renata Enghels
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co-supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Geert Jacobs
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Research keywords:
– representation of & by people on the move
– migration & displacement

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) valentina.di.nunno@vub.be
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Pragmatic competence in Spanish as a second language acquisition:
analysis of interaction in different language learners and teaching incidence.
Publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6655-1057
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
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co-supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez
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Research keywords:
– Foreign language acquisition
– multilingualism & multiculturalism

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Anastasija.Jagafarova@vub.be
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Metaphors learners live by: metaphoric anaphora resolution in L2 Spanish.
Publications:
https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-3200-5637
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
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Research keywords:
– Foreign language acquisition
– multilingualism & multiculturalism

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Jovana.Stanojevic@vub.be

Ph.D. Dissertation:
Pragmatic competence in second language learners:
the analysis of the speech act of refusal in L2 Spanish.
Publications:
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/jovana-stanojevic/publications/
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
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Research keywords:
– foreign language acquisition
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Brenthe.Tilburghs@vub.be
Research topic:
Learning pragmatic competence from an interlanguage perspective:
the role of ‘bueno’, ‘pues’, and ‘entonces’ as turn-taking pragmatic markers in L2 Spanish
Publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-8385
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
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Research keywords:
– foreign language acquisition
– multilingualism & multiculturalism

Universiteit Gent (UGent) margot.vanhaverbeke@UGent.be
Ph.D. Dissertation: 
Diminutive Expressions in Spanish-English Codeswitching Contexts.
A Multifactorial and Multimethod Account.
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/802003012793
 supervisor:
 Prof. Dr. Renata Enghels
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co-supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Robert Hartsuiker
Prof. Dr. María del Carmen Parafita Couto
Research keywords:
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
– multilingualism & multiculturalism

 

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATED MEMBERS

senior researchers

Universiteit Leiden (UL) k.r.bellamy@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Postdoctoral researcher


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Publications:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/kate-bellamy/publications#tab-4
Research keywords:
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
– multilingualism & multiculturalism
Università di Bologna s.betti@unibo.it
Professor in the Department of Spanish Language and Translation
Teaching Mediation Spanish
Teaching Spanish Language
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Publications:
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/s.betti/pubblicazioni
Research keywords:
  multilingualism & multiculturalism
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
– migration and displacement
Universidad de Granada tespino@ugr.es
Postdoctoral researcher
Teaching Métodos de investigación en literatura y cultura
Teaching Teoría y crítica literarias
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Publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-4415
Research keywords:
– multilingualism & multiculturalism
– identity construction
– migration & displacement
Universiteit Utrecht (UU) E.M.H.Houvenaghel@uu.nl
Professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Communication
Publications:
https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/EMHHouvenaghel/Publicaties
Research keywords:
– migration and displacement
– intermediality & generic hybridity
– identity construction
Universidad Pablo de Olavide mmarvaz@upo.es
Professor in the Department of Philology and Translation
Teaching Lingüística contrastiva y gramática del español como lengua extranjera
Publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6566-3070
Research keywords:
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
– multilingualism & multiculturalism
– foreign language acquisition
Universiteit Leiden (UL) / Universidad de Vigo m.parafita.couto@hum.leidenuniv.nl  / mariacarmen.parafita@uvigo.gal
Professor in the Centre of Linguistics
Teaching Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Portuguese Speaking World
Teaching Methods in Linguistics: Putting Theory into Practice
Teaching Research Methodology: Linguistics
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Publications:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maria-del-carmen-parafita-couto/publications#tab-4
Research keywords:
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
– multilingualism & multiculturalism
University of Bucharest (UniBuc) simona.tigris@lls.unibuc.ro
University assistant in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Teaching Estructura de la Lengua Española
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Publications:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simona-Luiza-Tigris
Research keywords:
– multilingualism & multiculturalism
– space, place & borders
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
 La Trobe University  C.TuguesRodriguez@latrobe.edu.au
Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures
Teaching Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, Spanish 4
Publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6710-8601
Research Keywords:
– multilingualism & multiculturalism
– foreign language acquisition
– contact linguistics & codeswitching

junior fellows

Universiteit Utrecht (UU) e.alonsootero@uu.nl
Ph.D. Dissertation:
La identidad transnacional de Rosa Chacel a través de su red epistolar
Publications:
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Helena Houvenagel
Research keywords:
– identity construction
Università di Bologna andrea.brandani3@unibo.it
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Una perspectiva ecolingüística en la enseñanza del español:
un enfoque inclusivo en el aula de ELE.
Publications:
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/andrea.brandani3/pubblicazioni
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Silvia Betti
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Research keywords:
– contact linguistics & codeswitching
– foreign language acquisition

Universiteit Utrecht (UU) e.l.carrasquervidal@uu.nl
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Women Fight, Women Write: Renegotiating the Borders of the Spanish War Canon
Publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0360-4283
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Helena Houvenagel
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Research keywords:
– space, place, & borders
– intermediality & generic hybridity

Universiteit Utrecht (UU)
Ph.D. Dissertation:
La transposición de las figuras de Mab y Puck en los cuentos de Rubén Darío:
la huella del Romanticismo.
Publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1163-5525
supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Helena Houvenagel
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co-supervisor:
M. Belén Molina
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 Research keywords:
– space, place, & borders
– intermediality & generic hybridity