Jule Gómez de García, Associate Professor, Co-Director Linguistics Program, Ph.D., 1994, University of Colorado-Boulder, Linguistics. Dr. Gómez de García joined the department in 2001. Her continuing research interests focus on the documentation and revitalization of endangered languages, involving application of linguistic research in the fields of first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, discourse and conversational analysis, and lexicography.  She teaches courses on introductory linguistics, language and culture, and language and gender. Her most recent publications include:

Axelrod,  M., J. Gómez de García, and J. Lachler.  “The roles of literacy and collaboration in documenting Native American Languages:  A report from the Jicarilla Apache Dictionary Project.” Sign Language Studies 3:3.67-101.  2002.

Gómez de García, J., M. Axelrod, and J. Lachler. 2002 “΄If You Play with Fire…’: Literary Production in Jicarilla Apache.” In R.M. Brown (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2002 Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference.  2002.

Lachler, J., M. Axelrod, J. Gómez de García, C. Maher, T. Ames-Clark, W. Phone, M. Martinez, and M. Olson. “Telelexicography: Writing an Jicarilla Apache Dictionary Over the Web.” Proceedings of the Athabaskan Languages Conference. Fairbanks, AK.  2002.

Gómez de García, J., M. Axelrod, and M. Olson.  “The Importance of Women’s Literacy in Language Stabilization Projects.”  Proceedings of the 2000 Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference:  Indigenous Languages Across the Community.   Burnaby, Barbara and Jon Reyhner, eds.  Flagstaff: Center for Excellence in Education.