I am a PhD candidate in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center, CUNY. I studied a BA in Sociology and a MA in Language Sciences. I have taught Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics, and currently I teach the course ‘Hispanic Linguistics/Spanish Advanced Grammar’ at Lehman College, and ‘Language, Culture and Society’ at Queens College, both as an adjunct lecturer. My main research interests are Sociolinguistics, Glottopolitics, Spanish in the US, Linguistic Ideologies, Linguistic Anthropology, Pragmatics and Conversational Analysis. I am also currently working on my doctoral research, which focuses on discursive constructions of citizenship in 19th and 20th century Mexico, that have been reproduced in how language and language use is normed and standardized through etiquette and politeness manuals.