What am I doing right now?
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.
- 📚 Reading Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research, ed. Anna Babel at the recommendation of a reviewer.
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.