Our faculty

• SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish 1
• SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish 2
• SPAN 103 Accelerated Elementary Spanish
• SPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish 1
• SPAN 300 Making Connections: Conversation, Composition and Culture
• SPAN 300 CENG Making Connections: Conversation, Composition, and Culture with Community Engagement/Service-Learning
• SPAN 311 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
• SPAN 389 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
• SPAN 389 CENG Spanish in the U.S. with Community Engagement/Service-Learning

• B.A. – The College of New Jersey
• M.A. – University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
• Ph.D. – University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Applied linguistics
• Second language acquisition
• Second language (L2) phonology
• Community engagement/academic service-learning
• Spanish sociolinguistics
• Spanish in the United States
• History of the Spanish language

Peer-reviewed articles:
Mirisis, C. A. (2022). Revisiting the effect of speech style on L2 acquisition of Spanish voiceless stops. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 9(3), 44-59.

Mirisis, C. A. (2020). Production and perception of Spanish voiced stops and approximants by L2 learners. Journal of Second and Multiple Language Acquisition, 8(4), 79-110.

Mirisis, C. A. (2019). L2 acquisition of Spanish stress in segmentally identical words. Hispanic Studies Review, 4(1), 98-120.

Rogers, B. M. A., & Mirisis, C. A. (2018). Voiceless stop lenition and reduction as linguistic and social phenomena in Concepción, Chile. Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 7(2), 187-215.

Invited book reviews:
Mirisis, C. A., & Wright, S. (2022, March). [Review of the book Juntos: Italian for Speakers of English and Spanish, by C. Donato, C. J. Oliva, M. Romero, & D. Zappador Guerra]. NECTFL Review, 88, 69-72.

Mirisis, C. A. (2020, November). [Review of the book Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review – Moving Toward Fluency, by S. Foerster & A. Lambright]. NECTFL Review, 86, 95-99.

Mirisis, C. A. (2018, September). [Review of the book Un buon affare: Italian for Business, by G. Tassone]. NECTFL Review, 82, 76-80.