Maria del Mar Bassa Vanrell is a linguist and currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Her research and teaching interests focus primarily on semantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interfaces, Indigenous languages of Brazil, English and Romance linguistics from a comparative perspective, dialectal and typological variation, bilingualism and languages in contact, and sociolinguistics. Methodologically, she uses a combination of traditional theoretical and empirical formal linguistics, cutting across theoretical boundaries, with more quantitative (e.g. corpus) data to account for dialectal and contextual variation.

Maria del Mar Bassa Vanrell has a PhD and MA in Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), with one-year stays as a visiting PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of São Paulo (USP), and as a Visiting Scholar at Boston University (BU). She graduated with a BA in English Philology from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and also studied as an undergraduate exchange student at Queen Mary University of London and UT Austin for one academic year each. She has taught a wide array of Linguistics and language as a second language/foreign language (English, Spanish, Portuguese) university courses at various institutions in the United States such as at Wellesley College, BU, UT Austin, College of the Holy Cross, and currently in Spain at UIB.

For more information please visit her personal website at https://marbassa.com