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Philip Limerick is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Centre College, where he joined the faculty in 2021. His academic work centers on the Spanish program, teaching courses from introductory Spanish to advanced linguistics and Hispanic studies.
His educational background includes:
- BA in Spanish from Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- MA in Romance Languages with a Spanish Linguistics Concentration
- PhD in Romance Languages with a Hispanic Linguistics Concentration from the University of Georgia
Limerick's research focuses on language variation and change, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and pragmatics. His current projects examine structural variation in Spanish spoken in Georgia and critical analyses of anti-racism discourse in Uruguay, emphasizing intersections of language with race, feminism, and social justice in Hispanic communities.
His publication trajectory since 2017 reveals dominant trends in US Spanish variation (particularly subject pronoun expression), discourse marker functionality, and critical race linguistics. Notable thematic clusters include Mexican Spanish in the Southeastern US, Black feminist perspectives on anti-racism, and corpus-based analysis of language contact in emerging bilingual communities.
Limerick founded the Corpus of Spanish in Georgia, a research initiative documenting semi-structured interviews with Latinx community members in Georgia to analyze language contact and variation patterns in the U.S. Southeast.
While specific advising activities and grant funding aren't detailed in available records, his extensive publication output across journals like Hispania and International Journal of Bilingualism indicates active scholarly engagement with potential student collaborations and research support.
