Biography

Curriculum vitae

Education

UC Berkeley, PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (Linguistics), Summer 2020. 

• Thesis: "Rumor Has It: The Press Conditional in French and Spanish"

UC Davis, B.A. in French and Spanish, Spring 2008. 

Teaching

Beginning and intermediate French; French practical phonetics and listening comprehension

Recommended Links

• Le français de nos régions - ongoing project dedicated to mapping linguistic variation across the francophone world
   
• FrenchSounds - YouTube resource for French pronunciation

Recommended Dining Establishments

• Zaytoon - Albany's best restaurant
   
• Everest Kitchen - excellent Nepalese happy hour in Albany (if ordering the peanuts, request that the peanuts be made spicy if desired)
   
• Fava - Berkeley's finest falafel
   
• Le Sévero - fine-lunching in Paris
   
• The Wood Tavern - mid-afternoon noshing in Oakland
   
• Zuari - fine-dining in Lisbon

Selected Publications

2021. "L’incertitude à double sens: le conditionnel journalistique et la construction de l’objectivité et de la subjectivité dans les textes journalistiques." Synergies Pays Riverains de la Baltique, no 15: 35‑47. Full PDF.