Irati Hurtado Ruiz

Irati is a PhD candidate in Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research examines language and migration, with an emphasis in US Spanish. Before starting her PhD program, Irati completed a BA in Modern Languages at the University of Deusto as well as an MA in Spanish at the University of Illinois. Concurrently with her graduate studies, Irati has worked as an instructor of Spanish, as a research assistant in the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab and more recently, as a graduate assistant for the European Union Center.