Sean McKinnon

Sean McKinnon is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics. He earned a B.S. in Psychology and Spanish from Ohio State University, a M.A. in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from Indiana University - Bloomington.

His research specialization is sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on language variation and change, language contact, and language ideologies. His research agenda focuses on these areas with bilingual speech communities (broadly defined to include heritage language, second language, and minority language speakers) throughout the Spanish-speaking world. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals (such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Spanish in Context, and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics), edited volumes and handbooks. He is co-editor of the book Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in Structure, Variation, and Bilingualism (John Benjamins).

Dr. McKinnon primarily teaches advanced and graduate courses in Spanish linguistics, as well as core curriculum courses about linguistics taught in English.