Aarnes Gudmestad

Aarnes Gudmestad is a Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), serving as Associate Chair and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. She also acts as Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Second Language Association. Her research focuses on the intersection of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics, particularly morpho-syntactic structures in Spanish and French, including multicompetent speakers and variation analysis. She holds a doctorate from Indiana University and teaches courses on Hispanic linguistics, applied linguistics, and the Spanish language.

Research Interests: Dr. Gudmestad explores topics such as grammatical gender, subjunctive-indicative contrast, subject expression, future-time reference, and lexical competence. Her work emphasizes quantitative methodologies and the acquisition of variation in multilingual contexts. Her publications appear in journals like Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.

Professional Contributions: She actively contributes to academic discourse through editorial roles and maintains an online presence via her website, which details her full publication list and research trajectory.