Aarnes Gudmestad, professor of Spanish, serves as Associate Chair and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. In addition, she serves as associate editor of the Journal of the European Second Language Association.

Gudmestad specializes in second language acquisition and sociolinguistics, and her research explores the intersection of the two fields. Her current projects address issues pertaining to morpho-syntactic structures in Spanish and French.

Her research has appeared in journals such as Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. She teaches courses on Hispanic linguistics, applied linguistics, and the Spanish language. For more information about her research and a complete list of publications, visit her website.