Biography
I was born in Taxco de Alarcón, Mexico and I came to the US in 1998. I lived in Chicago, where I received my PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, until I came to UIUC in 2020.
I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese where I give classes on Hispanic Linguistics focusing on bilingualism and code-switching.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Recent Publications
Callesano, S., Delgado, R., Ma, W., & Trybulec, E. (2026). Social variation of code-switching acceptability. International Journal of Bilingualism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069251404838
Delgado, R., Mora-Moreno, S., & Cervantes-Gómez, X. V. (2026). Sounds Like Politics: Cardi B and the Discourse of Español Ratatá. Latino Studies, 24(2), 168-186. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-026-00579-w
Delgado, R., Callesano, S., & Ma, W. (2026). Variable bilingual experiences and their influence on a contextualized acceptability judgment task. Applied Psycholinguistics, 47, Article e45. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716426100873
Delgado, R. (2025). A Grammatical Analysis of the Code-switching in Gentefied. In R. Attig, & R. A. Derrick (Eds.), Translating Spanglish in US Latinx Audiovisual Stories (pp. 73-94). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003488057-7
Delgado, R., & Koronkiewicz, B. (2025). Asymmetrical p-stranding: Acceptability data from Spanish-English code-switching. Isogloss, 11(4), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.454