Maritza Nemoga-Shelton, M.Ed., M.A.

Professor Nemogá obtained her Bachelor's degree in Language Education in Colombia. She then moved to Wisconsin where she earned a Master’s of Education degree from Carthage College. She also has a Master’s in Hispanic Linguistics from LSU. She then headed back north to work on her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh, but she came back to Louisiana before she finished it. She is an Instructor of Spanish in the Department of English and World Languages. She has taught Spanish, English, Crosscultural Communication, and Phonetics and Pronunciation, and she loves being in the classroom. Professor Nemogá is also a Dual Enrollment Instructor of Record, working closely with high school students who obtain college credit while still in high school. Additionally, she coordinates the Foreign Language Festival.

Area of Expertise

Teaching and Phonetics, mainly articulatory and acoustic phonetics, but she also enjoys dialectal variation. She has co-authored articles in both of these areas.