Daniela Narváez

Daniela Narváez is originally from Quito, Ecuador. She graduated with a B.A. in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE). Daniela is a member of the interdisciplinary linguistic research project Oralidad Modernidad that since 2009 aims to study indigenous languages in Ecuador. Daniela entered the Ph.D. program in the fall of 2017. She is interested in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on language contact (especially between Kichwa and Spanish in Ecuador), dialectology, language identity, and language attitudes. Her current research focuses on morphosyntactic and intonational aspects of Andean Ecuadorian Spanish. She also works with minority groups from Cañar, in New Jersey and Northampton, and researches their linguistic diaspora.