News

Invited talk at KU Leuven on December 1

November 22, 2023

I am excited to announce that I will be giving an invited talk at KU Leuven on December 1, 2023. The title is "'We're not like them down there': A mixed-methods approach to investigating local affiliation in Northern Maine." 

Talk at NWAV 51 in October

August 24, 2023

In October, I will present a paper on rhoticity in Southern Aroostook County English at NWAV 51, which will be held at Queens College.

Poster at CMC-Corpora 2023 in September

June 30, 2023

Looking forward to the International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities in Mannheim in September, where my co-authors Aida Alanzi, Johanna Aminoff, Raisa Tayib, Derek Denis and I will present a poster on our ongoing work on backchanneling in videoconferencing.

New position starting April 1, 2023

March 20, 2023

I am excited to announce that I will join Radboud University as an Assistant Professor of English Linguistics on April 1, 2023. I am very grateful for this opportunity and look forward to working with and learning from my students and colleagues at RU.

Paper on demonstrative them in Southern Aroostook English at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society 2023

January 8, 2023

If you'd like to learn more about the relationship between demonstrative them and local affiliation in Southern Aroostook English, come check out my talk at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society in Denver, Colorado today! Unfortunately, I cannot attend the conference in person since I am currently in the middle of moving. Because of this, the paper will be presented by my dear colleague Patricia Cukor-Avila. If you have comments and questions, please get in touch at myfirstname.mylastname@utoronto.ca.