One professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese has been promoted, demonstrating excellent performance in teaching, service and research.

 

Dr. Lillian Gorman is promoted from Assistant Professor to tenured Associate Professor.

 

Gorman is Director of the Spanish as a Heritage Language Program and is an affiliated faculty member in the Second Language Teaching and Acquisition (SLAT) and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory (SCCT) Graduate Interdisciplinary programs and Global Studies. Her research interests center around issues of language and identity within U.S. Latina/o/x communities and in U.S. Latina/o/x popular culture. Her interdisciplinary work also focuses on heritage language pedagogy and its intersections with bilingual education. 

 

Her essays have appeared in the edited volumes Transnational Encounters:  Music and Performance at the U.S. Mexico Border, Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English Speaking Societies, Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Capturing Linguistic and Cultural Diversities, and Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland. She graduated with a B.A. in Spanish and an M.A. in Southwest Hispanic Studies from the University of New Mexico and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Hispanic Studies with concentrations in Latina/o cultural studies and sociolinguistics.