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Marisol del-Teso-Craviotto graduated with honors from the University of Valencia (Spain), where she received her B.A. in English and German Philology. She then did an M.A. in Linguistics and Composition at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, where she also graduated with honors. In 2004, she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and completed a graduate minor in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University. She has done extensive research in the area of language and gender, with a focus on their ideological implications in the media. Through her experience in teaching Spanish as a second language, she became interested in the field of second language acquisition, and has conducted research on the acquisition of Spanish clitics. Her current research focuses on the construction of gender and sexuality in Internet chat rooms, and she is starting a project on the linguistic representation of Hispanic identities in US and Spanish mass media.
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