Jimmy Atanaya

Jimmy Atanaya is a second-year student in the MA Linguistics program and is completing the Graduate Certificate in Computational Linguistics. He earned his BA in Linguistics and French from UCSB, spending a year abroad in Bordeaux, France. His academic interests include Lavender/Queer Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, and (Medieval) Romance Linguistics. He hopes to conduct research in all these subfields, focusing on minority languages and their speakers, such as Catalan and Occitan. His non-academic interests include running, traveling, reading in other languages, and enjoying wine with friends. His current favorite authors are Haruki Murakami and Franz Kafka. His favorite wines are Bordeaux.