Marina Cárcamo, PhD

Dr. Marina Cárcamo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Seattle University. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics with a doctoral minor in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona.

Her primary research is in Sociolinguistics, with a focus on Language Contact, Bilingualism, Language Ideologies, and Language Variation and Change—particularly in contexts of second language (L2) acquisition. She mainly conducts her sociolinguistic work in bilingual communities, with research to date involving Portuguese–Spanish, English–Spanish, and Catalan–Spanish combinations. In addition, she maintains a secondary line of research in translation studies, where she is interested in transfer competence and in developing translation pedagogy for both Spanish L2 learners and heritage speakers.

Dr. Cárcamo has over seven years of experience in higher education and has taught courses in introductory, intermediate, and advanced Spanish and Portuguese, Sociolinguistics, and Translation and Interpretation. Alongside her academic work, she brings extensive professional experience as a translator, interpreter, and proofreader in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.