| EDUCATION |
| 1979
- 1986 |
UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. Doctor of Philosophy in Romance Philology. |
| 1975
- 1979 |
CALIFORNIA
STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON. Bachelor of Arts degrees in French,
Spanish, German. TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language)
Diploma. Minor in Portuguese. |
| 1971
- 1975 |
ECOLE
SUPERIEURE DE COMMERCE,
Neuchâtel
, Switzerland. Business diploma
in accounting, management, and computer science. |
| LANGUAGES |
| Native: |
Swiss-German. |
| Fluent: |
French,
German, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, and Palenquero
(Spanish-based Creole of Colombia). |
| Read: |
Romansh,
Catalan, Occitan, and Latin. |
| WORK EXPERIENCE |
| June
1997 - present |
UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE. Full Professor.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese. |
| Jan.
1999 - June 2001 |
UNIVERSITY
OF COSTA RICA, SAN JOSE (in conjunction with UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA).
Director of Education Abroad Program,
San José, Costa Rica. |
| EDITORIAL POSITIONS |
| 1995 to present |
Assoc.
Editor, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. |
| 1997
to present |
Co-editor
of the series Lengua y Sociedad en el Mundo Hispánico / Language
and Society in the Hispanic World (Vervuert Verlag, Frankfurt). |
| 2002 to present |
Co-Editor, Revista
Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (RILI). |
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