 and Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 1992 and 1997.She has held previous academic positions at Stanford and Texas A&M.At UC Santa Barbara, where she has worked as an assistant professor (2002-2004), an associate professor (2004-2008) and a full professor (2008–present), Bucholtz is affiliated with several departments, including the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Feminist Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program.