David Cruz de Jesús



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David Cruz de Jesús
Associate Chair for Language Instruction
Senior Lecturer of Spanish Language

Email: dc36@cornell.edu

David Cruz de Jesús is the Associate Chair for Language Instruction and a Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language. He also holds a joint appointment in the Latino Studies Program.

He holds a B.A. in Spanish and Portuguese, an M.A. in Spanish, and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from The University at Albany, SUNY. He also received additional graduate training from the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana and its Escuela de Investigación Lingüística y Literaria in Madrid, Spain. His areas of research, interests and publications are in the fields of Hispanic Linguistics, General Linguistics, Puerto Rican Dialectology and Lexicology, Heritage Language Education, Foreign Language Pedagogy, and Second Language Acquisition.

In addition to publishing several articles on Puerto Rican Spanish and the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers, Dr. Cruz is the author of the book, Los indigenismos en el español de Puerto Rico: Apreciaciones sobre su historia y vigencia (San Juan: Editorial Plaza Mayor, 2003).

As the Department’s Associate Chair, Dr. Cruz is responsible for all matters related to the administration of the Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese language programs. In addition to being on the teaching faculty of the Latino Studies Program, he also sits on its Advisory Board.

He teaches language courses at all levels and in the past has taught linguistics courses such as: Hispanic Bilingualism, History of the Spanish Language, and Spanish Phonetics and Phonology.

last updated July 22, 2009