Susana Blanco-Iglesias is from Bilbao, Spain. Her research focuses on language
learning and second-language acquisition in general, and in Spanish/English in
particular. Her dissertation project concentrates on the use of Spanish/English by
third-grade children in an immersion program in the Twin Cities. She is also interested
in sociolinguistics, political linguistics, dialectology, translation, and language
contact issues (Spanish/English in Minnesota and in the United States, and Basque/Spanish
in the Basque Country, Spain).
Blanco-Iglesias has been teaching at Macalester since 1998.
EDUCATION: M.A., A.B.D., University of Minnesota
