About Us Andrew Lynch

Dr. Andrew Lynch is a Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. He is an internationally renowned expert on the study of Spanish as a heritage language in the US and of the literary and cultural production of the Latinx population. Andrew has authored and co-authored numerous books on the Spanish language in a global society, as well as a multitude of peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters on topics related to sociolinguistics, the study of heritage languages, and Spanish on an international scale. He serves on the advisory boards of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA and the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at UT-Austin, and has been the editor-in-chief of the Heritage Language Journal since 2013.

Between September and December 2023, he is a visiting fellow at the HCIAS. His research stay at Heidelberg is being funded by the Excellence Strategy. At Heidelberg, Andrew will work together with scholars of the HCIAS and the HCA, contributing to further strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration between sociolinguistics, human geography, and cultural studies, focusing on the socially highly relevant topic of migration. 

Andrew Lynch - University of Miami