Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch
(Colaborador, EEUU)

Andrew Lynch (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1999) specializes in Spanish language and linguistics, general sociolinguistics, language contact and issues of bilingualism. His reading and research over the past decade have been focused on the linguistic particularities of Spanish contact dialects throughout the world, topic of the book El español en contacto con otras lenguas (Georgetown University Press, 2009). He has published numerous articles and essays on the situation of Spanish in the United States, particularly the city of Miami, and the acquisition of Spanish among the Hispanic/Latino heritage population of the United States as well as aspects of Spanish second language learning. His publications have appeared in such journals as Spanish Applied Linguistics (1998), Hispania (2001), Heritage Language Journal (2003), Lingüística Española Actual (2005), Foreign Language Annals (2008), Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (2009), and Language Sciences (2009). He is a contributor to the Enciclopedia del español en los Estados Unidos published by Spain’s Instituto Cervantes (Madrid, 2009). He has given more than thirty talks or invited lectures at local, national, and international academic conferences, and has spoken on National Public Radio, BBC London, Radio Nederland, CNN en español, and ‘Oppenheimer Presenta’. Professor Lynch has directed the Spanish heritage language program at the University of Miami since 2005, and teaches courses on topics of Spanish in the United States, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and translation. He has also worked as a translator and a forensic linguist in various state and federal court cases, and has served as a consultant to the American Council on Education in Washington, DC. Prior to coming to the University of Miami, he formed part of the graduate faculty at the University of Florida (2001 to 2005).