I just found out that my co-authored paper on gender bias in linguistics textbooks (with Paola Cépeda, Hadas Kotek, and Kristen Syrett) is available online (open access).

Please also check out the related paper on gender bias in journals (by Hadas Kotek, Rikker Dokkum, Sarah Babinski, and Christopher Geissler) in the same volume.

The LSA is organizing a meet the authors webinar with both sets of authors on January 28, 2022. For more information, click here.

I am excited to announce that a paper on real and apparent time variation in adjectives of positive evaluation I have been working on with Sali A. Tagliamonte and Alison Chasteen got accepted to CLARe 5! The conference will be held in hybrid form, with the in-person component held in Anchorage, AK.

Ph.D. alumni regularly cite informational interviews as the best method for learning about careers both within and beyond academia. On November 17, Dr. Joel Rodgers (Graduate Student Professional Development Coordinator, Faculty or Arts and Sciences) and I are hosting an online session from noon to 1:30pm that will outline how to prepare, conduct, and learn from this interview process.

If you are a U of T graduate student in Linguistics or related fields, please register on or before Monday, November 15, 2021.

I hope to see many of you there!

During the summer of 2020, Sali Tagliamonte and I worked on a comparative study of preopositional variation in northern Maine and northern Ontario with a fantastic group of students, including Diana Hamel, Milena Injac, Roxanne Locke, Yixin Wang. I'm excited to announce that we will be presenting some of our findings at Linguistweets 2021.

The conference will be held entirely on Twitter, making it much more inclusive and environmentally friendly than traditional conferences.

Come check out my poster on phonological variation in Aroostook County English (spoken in northern Maine) on Friday, October 22, 2021 at NWAV 49 (poster session III).

Excited to share that my co-authored paper on integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches to stance (with Angelika Kiss, Timothy Gadanidis, Lex Konnelly, Lisa Schlegl, Pocholo Umbal and Sali A. Tagliamonte) is now available in Language and Society.

I was interviewed for the U of T Linguistics department blog. You can read the full interview here.

I recently completed U of T's Advanced University Teaching Preparation Certificate, offered through the Teaching Assistants' Training Program. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn more about the latest trends in pedagogy and reflect on my own teaching practice.

On June 4th, I will give an invited talk at ISLE 6 about my work on yod dropping in Toronto English, which received the 2019 Richard M. Hogg prize. The talk is part of the general assembly, which will take place from 5.15 to 6.15pm UTC+3.

I am happy to announce that the U of T Department of Linguistics awarded me a SIG award for attending NWAV49, which will be held remotely from October 19-24, 2021.

Today, I had the pleasure of giving an outreach talk about the Vivian White project at Don Heights Unitarian. The project (conducted in collaboration with Sali A. Tagliamonte) investigates the relationship between language use and cognitive decline using one individual's diary entries from 1985 to 2016 (age 60-91). The writer, Vivian White, was diagnosed with dementia at age 84, and later with Alzheimer's Disease. Vivian helped found Don Heights and it was an honor to share our findings with the community that meant so much to her.

I was involved in two presentations at the LSA Annual Meeting this year. The first one (co-authored with Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Naomi Nagy, and Vidhya Elango) discussed how multilingual students' language ecologies have shifted during the pandemic and was part of the panel "Sociolinguistic research in the time of COVID: Methods, ethics, theory".

The second one was a co-authored talk called "Lifespan change and linguistic innovation: the quotative system as we age" (co-authored with Sali A. Tagliamonte and Alison Chasteen).