What am I doing right now?
Teaching
Research
👨🏻🏫 Preparing presentations for LSA and ADS conferences in January.
💬 Collecting data on language attitudes towards regional varieties of English.
📃 Working on several manuscripts with reviewer comments and awaiting comments for a few other manuscripts.
- 📚 Reading Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research, ed. Anna Babel at the recommendation of a reviewer.
Advising
⛪️ An MA thesis on how religiosity correlates with language attitudes towards Spanish-accented English.
👩🏻🏫 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 Red Rising and listening to Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us.
🧶 Knitting a purple scarf with a really cool Japanese knit pattern.
🧩 Toying around with 3x3, 5x5, and 7x7 Rubik’s cubes!
📺 Watching DMV and rewatching Series 7 of Taskmaster.