Dr. Álvaro González Alba is an Assistant Professor at the Modern and Classical Languages Dept. at Regis University in Denver. He was born in Córdoba, Spain. He has earned his BA and MA in Spain, where he studied education, the teaching of languages and second language acquisition. Moreover, he has earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside, where his dissertation focused on the sociolinguistics relationships within the use of Spanish and social media platforms interaction with an emphasis in the Spanish minoritized communities of California.
Besides, his research interests focus on Digital Humanities, linguistics attitudes and ideologies towards Spanish speakers and ethical concerns on social media research. Furthermore, and as part of some of his projects, Dr. González is also interested in bilingualism, and pedagogies for the teaching of Spanish with special attention to the use of the sociolinguistic history of the US Spanish speakers in the classrooms.
