Luis Quesada

Luis is a sociolinguist with a PhD in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He holds a Master's degree in Language Sciences from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico City and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Guadalajara. His main research interests are Spanish in New York and the grammar of Spanish in contact with other languages, from subdisciplines such as conversation analysis, anthropological linguistics, pragmatics, and critical sociolinguistics.

Luis has taught within the CUNY system for 10 years. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at Queens College, where he teaches anthropological linguistics to undergraduate students. He has also taught courses in basic to advanced Spanish, and in Hispanic linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and dialectology.

He is a member of the CUNY Glottopolitical Studies Group, a research group made up of students and scholars who share an interest in a critical perspective that seeks to understand and explain the complex relationships between linguistic practices and power. Within this group, he has worked on diverse research and publication projects, including his doctoral dissertation, a historical analysis of the ideological representations of language and conversation in etiquette manuals that circulated in Mexico during the 19th and 20th centuries. Luis is also a member of the Columbia School Linguistic Society, where he participates in projects on Spanish grammar in use. Luis is also a founding member of the Graduate Center's Mexican Studies Group, a student organization dedicated to the study of various aspects of Mexican culture, past and present.