Elisa Gironzetti
Associate Director for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Member, Maryland Language Science Center
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Research Expertise
Applied Linguistics
Heritage Language(s)
Humor
Second Language Pragmatics
Elisa Gironzetti earned a doctorate in Spanish Language Teaching (University of Alicante, 2013) and a Ph. D. in English Applied Linguistics (Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2017). Her research focuses on humor, pragmatics and language teaching, and Hispanic applied linguistics. Her articles and chapters were published in Discourse Processes, Intercultural Pragmatics, Humor, the Journal of Literary Semantics, the Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor, and the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching. She is the founding editor of E-JournALL, an open-access scholarly publication in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching, associate editor of the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, consulting editor of HUMOR - International Journal of Humor Research, and director of publications of ASELE (Asociación para la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera). She recently co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: Metodología, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza and is currently conducting experimental research on humor integrating eye-tracking, facial action coding, and discourse analysis.