What am I doing right now?

Modified

April 13, 2026


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.