Marguerite Morlan

Marguerite Morlan is a Ph.D. student in the Romance Languages and Literatures program. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, as well as an M.A. in Spanish Linguistics from New Mexico State University. Prior to her doctorate, she was a Fulbright visiting researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Her research explores language attitudes and identity among autochthonous and foreign residents in the Catalan Countries. She also investigates the interplay among language policy, language ideologies, and nationalism in these territories. She employs mixed-methods approaches in both sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape studies. She organizes the Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley (SLaB) and teaches Hispanic Linguistics to undergraduate students.