Felipe Neri Pieras-Guasp

Felipe Pieras-Guasp is a college graduate in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain.  He started teaching Spanish as a second language at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts) and later moved to Pennsylvania, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from Penn State University, with a thesis about the social dynamics of language contact.  He was Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he did research in the area of Sociolinguistics. Between 2014 and 2019 was an Advisor for the Education Office of the Embassy of Spain.  During the same period he was also the Director of the Spanish Resource Center at Florida International University, in Miami.