Name: Ana Celia Zentella
Title: Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies
Email: azentella@ucsd.edu
Campus Address: Social Sciences Building (SSB) 224
Phone: (858) 534-8128

Education:
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Pennsylvania State University

Field of Expertise:
Ana Celia Zentella is a Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego and one of the foremost researchers in what she has named "anthro-political linguistics". She is a central figure in the study of U.S. Latin@ varieties of Spanish and English, Spanglish, and language socialization in Latin@ families, and a respected critic of the linguistic profiling facilitated by English-only laws and anti- bilingual education legislation. Her book, Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican children in New York (Blackwell, 1997) won the Book Prize of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, and the Book Award of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists of the American Anthropology Association. Her current research projects include a study of Puerto Rican assimilation to Mexican Spanish in California and a study in conjunction with researchers from COLEF [El Colegio de la Frontera] on the remapping of language, identity, and the border by transfronterizo students who live in Tijuana and study in San Diego.

Regions of Interest: Puerto Rico, New York City, U.S.

Media Interview Topics:
Ana Celia Zentella on anthro-political linguistics, bilingualism, varieties of Spanish in the U.S. and Puerto Ricans in the US, as well as "Spanglish" and "Ebonics."

Selected Publications:
Online Reference: "¿Quieren que sus hijos hablen el inglés y el español?: Un manual bilingüe / Would you like your children to speak English and Spanish?: A Bilingual Manual"


Editor. Building on Strengths: Language And Literacy in Latino Families And Communities. Teachers College Press, 2005.