What am I doing right now?

Modified

October 27, 2025


Teaching

Research

  • 👨🏻‍🏫 Putting together a talk for NWAV53 about the low back prerhotic vowels in Utah English. See here for now.

  • 💬 Collecting data on language attitudes towards regional varieties of English.

  • 📃 Working on what I guess I’d call a “desk R&R” that I got from a journal and two “regular” R&Rs from another.

  • 📃 Awaiting reviewer comments for four(!) more submitted manuscripts.

Advising

  • 🇺🇦 An MA thesis on Ukrainians’ language attitudes of Russian.

  • ⛪️ An MA thesis on how religiosity correlates with language attitudes towards Spanish-accented English.

  • 👩🏻‍🏫 An undergradate 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.

  • 👩🏼 A HumGrant on gender-based linguistic discrimination.

Personal

  • 📘 Reading Pierce Brown’s Red Rising and listening to Brandon Sanderson’s Shadows of Self.

  • 🎶 Working through some organ music to play around Christmastime.

  • 🧶 Knitting two different scarves (a brown one with a basic rib and a white one with mossy diamonds)

  • 🧩 Toying around with 3x3, 5x5, and 7x7 Rubik’s cubes!

  • 📺 Rewatching Series 6 of Taskmaster.