Rebeca Acevedo

Rebeca Acevedo, from Mexico, received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is currently Associate Professor of Spanish linguistics at Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses on issues of language policies, dialectology, intercultural rhetoric, and Mexican and United States Spanish. Her recent publications include "Perspectiva histórica del paradigma verbal en el español de California" in Research on Spanish in the United States (2000), and El español mexicano durante la Colonia: El paradimga verbal en el altiplano central (University of Guadalajara Press, 2000). She also has been co-author of “Spanish language newspaper editorials from Mexico, Spain, and the United States” in the volume Contrastive Rhetoric: Researching to Intercultural Rhetoric (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008), "El género periodístico en el español de los Estados Unidos" in Revista Iberoamericana (2003), and A manera de ensayo (Houghton Mifflin, 1998).