Hello! I'm Gabi Constantin-Dureci and my pronouns are she/her/hers in English, ella/la in Spanish, and ea/ei in Romanian.

 

A bit about my personal background

I grew up in Bucharest, Romania, lived in Bremen, Germany, and have been residing in the United States for the past ten years. Therefore, in the last decade I have been an immigrant to two different nations which has painted my understanding of belonging. While recognizing the immigrant-specific struggles I have experienced, I also acknowledge my privilege of having faced them as a white cis-woman with no visible disabilities.
 

I am multilingual; I speak Romanian, Spanish, and English fluently, and can also get by in German and French. Importantly, I am a multilingual speaker whose language competency in Romanian, Spanish, and English affords me the ability to ‘pass’ as a ‘native’ speaker. The possibility of ‘opting out’ and not being othered as a ‘non-native’ speaker has been guiding my research in language attitudes, stereotyping, and discrimination for the past years.

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A bit about my professional and academic background

Currently, I am Associate Director of Online and Digital Pedagogies at Drexel University's Teaching and Learning Center, while also teaching Spanish language courses at Saint Joseph's University as Adjunct Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Linguistics.

I hold a PhD in Spanish/ Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. My dissertation examined how learners' and teachers' attitudes toward different language varieties of Spanish influence their approaches toward teaching and learning Spanish. I also have an MA in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University, an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, and a BA in Integrated Cultural Studies from Jacobs University, Bremen.

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