Professor Emerita Prof. Quesada's field of expertise is in second language (L2) acquisition. Her most recent research has focused on the acquisition of tense, aspect and mood, subject pronouns, and lexical datives among Spanish L2 learners. Prof. Quesada teaches graduate seminars in Romance linguistics theory and analysis, Spanish second language acquisition, the history of Spanish, and special topics in Spanish L2 acquisition, as well as various undergraduate courses in linguistics and language. Before coming to UGA in the fall of 2005, she was on the faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (México) from 1990-2005. She is the author of The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Subjects: Multiple Perspectives (de Gruyter, 2015) and co-author (with Diana L. Ranson) of The History of Spanish A Student's Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Education Education: PhD in Linguistics, Michigan State University, 1995 MA in Linguistics, Michigan State University, 1985 MA in TESOL, Michigan State University, 1982 Research Areas of Interest: Historical Linguistics Language Acquisition Specific Research Areas: Language acquisition, Historical linguistics, Hispanic linguistics
