Lourdes Ortega is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University, her main area of research is in second language acquisition. She was co-recipient of the Pimsleur and the TESOL Research awards in 2001 and has been a doctoral Mellon fellow (1999), a postdoctoral Spencer/National Academy of Education fellow (2003), a senior research fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2010), and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Graduate Center, City University of New York’s Advanced Research Collaborative (2018). She was Journal Editor of Language Learning for the five-year term of 2010-2015 and serves currently as Associate General Editor on the Board of Directors of the University of Michigan’s Language Learning Research Club. She also served as area editor for “Language Learning and Teaching” for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2013). She was just elected Second Vice-President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, an office that will lead to her organizing the Annual Conference in Pittsburgh in 2022 and being President in 2023.
