Lillian Gorman
- Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
- Associate Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP
- Associate Professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory - GIDP
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Biography
Lillian Gorman is originally from New Mexico and graduated with a B.A. in Spanish and English from the University of New Mexico and an M.A. in Southwest Hispanic Studies in the Spanish Department at the University of New Mexico. Lillian worked for four years with federal education policy for Hispanic Serving Institutions in Washington, D.C. and New Mexico. Lillian developed and directed the Spanish as a Heritage Language Program at New Mexico Highlands University from 2005-2007 and also created and developed the Spanish for Heritage Learners Nicaragua Study program from 2006-2009. Lillian served as the Assistant Director of Spanish for Heritage Speakers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and graduated with her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Hispanic Studies with concentrations in Latina/o Studies and Sociolinguistics. Lillian is currently the Director of Spanish for Heritage Learners at the University of Arizona and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research agenda is committed to engaging Latino/a cultural studies with sociolinguistics and her research interests focus on issues of language and identity within U.S. Latino/a communities and U.S. Latino/a popular culture in the southwest and Chicago. Lillian also actively works to promote recruitment and retention of Latinos in higher education and has worked with local and national Latino higher education organizations such as HACU and the Tucson Hispanic Leadership Institute and remains an active member of and the Mexican Museum of Fine Art in Chicago and their women’s quilting group “Puntadas del alma” and an active member of Good Shepherd Parish in Chicago.
Awards
- New Mexico Book Award
- New Mexico Writers, Fall 2025
- Mentoring Future Scholars Award
- Office of the Provost, Spring 2023
- COH Research Grant
- Spring 2020
- Center for Regional Studies Scholar in Residence
- University of New Mexico Center for Regional Studies, Spring 2020
- UNM CRS Scholar-in-Residence Award
- University of New Mexico Center for Regional Studies, Spring 2020
- UA HSI Fellowship
- UA, Fall 2019
- University of Arizona HSI Fellows
- University of Arizona Office of HSI Iniatives, Fall 2019
Interests
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Courses
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Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Gorman, L. (2019). (Dis) Connecting U.S. Latina/o Cultural Identities and Language: The Case of Mexican-Nuevomexicano Families in Northern New Mexico. In Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Capturing Linguistic and Cultural Diversities (Eds.) Zoe Nikolaidou & Stina Hållsten.. Stockholm, Sweden: Södertörn University.
- Gorman, L. (2019). Re-Framing Patriotic Practices: The Case of the Las Vegas 4th of July Fiestas. In Querencia: Essays on the New Mexican Homeland (Eds) Spencer Herrera, Levi Romero, Vanessa Fonseca.. University of New Mexico Press.
- Gorman, L. (2011). ’Todos me llaman El Gringo’: Place, Identity, and Erasure in the New Mexico Hispano Music Scene. In Transnational Encounters: Music and Performance at the US-Mexico Border (Ed.) Alejandro Madrid. Oxford University Press.
- Gorman, L., & Potowski, K. (2011). Hybridized tradition, language use, and identity in the U.S. Latina quinceañera ritual. In Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies, Potowski, K. & Rothman, J. (Eds.),(pp 57-87). John Benjamins.
Journals/Publications
- Gorman, L. (2018). ‘(Dis)Connecting U.S. Latina/o Cultural Identities and Language: The Case of Mexican- Nuevomexicano Families in northern New Mexico”. in Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Capturing Linguistic and Cultural Diversities (Eds.) Zoe Nikolaidou & Stina Hållsten. Sodertorn Discourse Studies, Sodertorn University, Stockholm, 2018. 41-58..
Presentations
- Colina, S., Gorman, L., Giambruno, C., & Ortega Herráez, J. M. (2023, May). A Comparative View of Ensuring Rights through Language: Training Translators and Interpreters in the US and Spain. Muros, 3rd International Conference, Chicano History. Elche, Spain: Universidad Miguel Hernández.
- Gorman, L. (2018, Summer). “Developing Language Awareness and Reinforcing Linguistic Diversity through Participatory Sociolinguistic Methods: From Language Shift to Language Shaping--Spanish Maintenance in the Mexican-Nuevomexicano Context.”. International Sociolinguistics Symposium 22.. Auckland, New Zealand: International Sociolinguistics Symposium.
- Gorman, L. (2018, Summer). “Telemundo and Chicana/o/x L.A.: Navigating U.S. Latina/o Cultural and Linguistic Borderlands.”. 3rd Biennial Conference of the Latina/o Studies Association.. Washington, D.C.: the Latina/o Studies Association..
- Gorman, L. (2018, Summer). “Telemundo and Chicana/o/x L.A.: Navigating U.S. Latina/o Cultural and Linguistic Borderlands.”. Latin American Studies Association 2018 Congress.. Barcelona, Spain: Latin American Studies Association.
- Gorman, L. (2018, spring). “Oppositional Latina/o/x Linguistic Practices: The Politics of Name Pronunciation among Regionally Diverse U.S. Latina/os/xs.”. American Association of Applied Linguistics. Chicago, IL: AAAL.
- Gorman, L. (2018, summer). “Oppositional Latina/o/x Linguistic Practices: The Politics of Name Pronunciation among Regionally Diverse U.S. Latina/os/xs.”. International Sociolinguistics Symposium 22. Auckland, New Zealand: International Sociolinguistics Symposium.
- Gorman, L. (2017, April). Examining Spanglish Diversity in the Latino U.S.A.: Southwest and Midwest Spanglish Language Ideologies”.. 26th Conference of Spanish in the U.S.. Provo, Utah: Spanish in the U.S..
- Gorman, L. (2017, July). “Identity Matters in the Spanish as a Heritage Language Classroom”. American Association of the Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Chicago, IL: AATSP.
- Gorman, L. (2017, October). "From Language Shift to Language Shaping: Spanish Maintenance in the Mexican-Nuevomexicano Context.”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Las Cruces, NM: Linguistic Association of the Southwest.
