{"id":24,"date":"2026-04-29T21:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:29:09","slug":"prospective-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/prospective-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospective Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prospective Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"intro\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If you think you may want to study and work with me, feel free to email me directly at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dpascual@ufl.edu\">dpascual@ufl.edu<\/a>.\u00a0I will be happy to talk to you and answer any questions you may have. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spanishandportuguese.ufl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Spanish &amp; Portuguese Studies<\/a>\u00a0at the University of\u00a0Florida offers the most comprehensive M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Hispanic Linguistics available in the southeastern United States.\u00a0Eight full-time faculty members in the Department are engaged in teaching and research in Hispanic Linguistics. Our students typically major in Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Historical Linguistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>I look forward to hearing from prospective students who are interested in pursuing a graduate (or undergraduate) degree in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Florida. Particularly, I want to hear from those students who are thinking in specializing in the field of Spanish heritage speaker bilingualism (broadly defined).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Please know that, above all, I value students&#8217; openness, perseverance\u00a0and eagerness to learn new ideas and new skills. So, if you don&#8217;t have previous research experience, do not worry; we can work on that when you get here \ud83d\ude42 My goal as a professor and as a mentor\u00a0is to provide you with the support and opportunities\u00a0that you need so you can\u00a0develop into the the person you aspire to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200bCompetitive assistantships and fellowships are often available to our top applicants. You can start your application\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spanishandportuguese.ufl.edu\/graduate-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1425,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dpascual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}