Co-Director of the Language Program. Prof. Hernández is originally from Spain, where she earned her B.A. in Translation and Interpretation in 2005 from Universitat Jaume I, Castellón. In 2005 she also received a scholarship to spend one semester at the University of New Orleans. She received her M.A. from Arizona State University in Second Language Acquisition/ Applied Linguistics (Spanish) in 2008, and her PhD from The Graduate Center (CUNY) in Hispanic Sociolinguistics in 2016. Before joining NYU, she has taught a variety of Spanish language courses at Arizona State University and Lehman College, CUNY. She has also taught Spanish linguistics courses, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, at the City College of New York. In 2021 she won the Golden Dozen Award at NYU for excellence in teaching.
Lorena Hernández Ramírez
Clinical Associate Professor
- Applied linguistics and second language acquisition
- Language ideologies
- Sociolinguistics, and the sociology of language