What am I doing right now?

Teaching

🗣 African American English (as LING 495R Senior Capstone)

Research

• 👨🏻‍🏫 Preparing a presentation for the SHEL 14 conference.

• 📃 Working on several manuscripts with reviewer comments.

• 🇬🇧 Starting some preliminary plans for co-directing a study abroad in the UK next summer.

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

• 📘 Reading Pierce Brown’s Golden Son and listening to Toshikazu Kawachuchi’s Before the coffee gets cold.

• 🎶 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.