Professor Dr. Lucia Fraiese

Biography

Lucia Fraiese is a fully funded PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Western Australia (UWA), where she serves as a research assistant and tutor in the UWA Linguistics Language Lab. Her research focuses on the intersection of anthropology and linguistics, particularly examining how young Aboriginal women use language to create and contest social bonds in boarding schools. Lucia aims to challenge the deficit views often held about Australian Aboriginal English and to highlight the linguistic variation and rule-governed structure in these communities. As a first-generation university student from the Global South, Lucia has extensive experience teaching English and Spanish across various educational settings in Argentina, the United States, and Australia. She has received multiple scholarships and awards for her academic accomplishments, including a competitive Fulbright scholarship. Lucia's academic interests include sociolinguistics, ethno-linguistics, and the discourse-pragmatics of Aboriginal English, making her work significant in the field of applied linguistics.

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