What am I doing right now?
Teaching
Research
- 👨🏻🏫 Preparing a presentation for the SHEL 14 conference.–>
- 📃 Working on several manuscripts with reviewer comments.
- 🤔 Thinking about what I’d like to get done in a potential sabbatical next year.
Advising
⛪️ An MA thesis on how religiosity correlates with language attitudes towards Spanish-accented English.
️🎤 An MA thesis on the acoustic correlates of “hero” and “villain” in voice actors.
🗣️ An MA project that produces materials for Swahili speakers to learn English.
️🧑🧑🧒🧒 An MA thesis on address forms for in-laws and other non-core family members.
👩🏻🏫 An undergraduate honor’s thesis on teachers’ attitudes towards nonstandard Englishes in Baltimore.
🎤 A HumGrant on the social perception of affricate closure duration in Utah English.
👩🏼🤝👩🏻 A HumGrant on the effect of pitch on the perceptions of female voices.
Personal
📊 Working on a few analyses for my HymnStats blog.
📘 Reading Pierce Brown’s Red Rising and listening to Jim Butcher’s Storm Front.
🎶 Working on Neil Harmon’s organ piece called Prelude on a Spanish Hymn (what I know as Come, Ye Children of the Lord) to play in church sometime soon.
🧶 Knitting a red scarf with a pretty cool Japanese cable pattern.
- 📺 Watching The Paper, DMV, The Promised Land (I’m in a bit of a mockumentary kick) and the latest season of Taskmaster.