Amanda Dalola

Amanda Dalola is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, with affiliations in Linguistics and French & Italian. She serves as the Director of the Language Center, where she contributes to academic leadership and research initiatives.

• PhD in French Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
• MA in French Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University
• BA in Linguistics and English, Cornell University

Her research focuses on sociophonetics and sociolinguistics, combining phonetics and phonology with innovative applications in social media use within second-language (L2) classrooms. She pioneered 'tweetmining' as a methodological approach to analyze language patterns in digital environments.

As Director of the Language Center, she oversees language education initiatives and supports interdisciplinary research in applied linguistics and language pedagogy.