Nolvia Cortez Roman
Dr. Nolvia Ana Cortez Román is an applied linguist with a focus on language teaching and language use. She recieved her graduate degrees from the University of Arizona with a Master's in Language Reading and Culture and a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Her latest research has been with return migrant students in Mexico, exploring their translanguaging and transcultural practices, as well as how their migrant experiences impact their language and cultural identities. She is a full time professor at the Universidad de Sonora with the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate Program in Humanities.
She has trained English as a Foreign Language teachers at the BA program in English Language Teaching for more than 15 years and in that venture, developed a research agenda with migrant students from the United States who return to Mexico to continue with their higher education. She has published some of these results in the U.S. and Latin America in scholarly journals such as Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa, Sinergia, Journal of Writing Research, MexTESOL and Journal of Latino Studies.
She has been recognized by the Mexican Council of Science and Technology as a member of the National Researchers' System and by the Professors' Professional Development Program (PRODEP Mexico). She has collaborated on several binational research projects, including a University of Arizona - University of Sonora seed grant project to develop networking opportunities between students in Sonora and in Arizona with migrant experience. She is currently collaborating with Dr. Anna Ochoa O´Leary in the Fullbright Project: Buscando el Sueño Mexicano: Mexico’s Returning Students’ Educational Goal Setting in the Age of Heightened Immigration Enforcement. Her stay at the University of Arizona this year will include collaboration with the University of Arizona Borderlands Education Center.
Degree(s)
- BA Sociology (Universidad de Sonora)
- MA Language Reading and Culture (University of Arizona)
- PhD Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (University of Arizona)