Michael Sciacca is a fourth year PhD candidate in Spanish Linguistics at Georgetown University (GU), where he teaches undergraduate courses in Spanish language and linguistics and researches the intersection between sexuality, gender, and Spanish language variation. He earned his third master's degree, a Master of Science in Spanish from GU in 2022, in passing to the PhD.
Michael previously completed a Master of Arts in Teaching from Relay Graduate School of Education while teaching high school Spanish and serving as the Spanish Department Head in Brooklyn, New York. Before that, he earned a Master of Arts in Hispanic Linguistics from North Carolina State University, where he specialized in sociolinguistics, experimental phonetics, and second language acquisition, and taught undergraduate Spanish courses. He also holds a bachelor's degree in Hispanic Studies with honors from East Carolina University, where he studied abroad at the University of Granada in Spain.
His research interests include sociophonetics, computational sociolinguistics, and the interface between sociolinguistic variation and second language learning, with a particular focus on how sexuality and gender influence linguistic variation and perception.