• 2021. Professorial qualification:  section 07 (Linguistics) and 11 (English Studies).

• 2020. PhD in Linguistisc; ATILF-CNRS, Université de Lorraine. Title: lol thats how reddit talks;) : le site américain Reddit comme espace de variation de l’anglais : étude de corpus intersectionnelle et quantitative d’usages non standard, au prisme du genre, de l’âge et de l’ethnicité.
  Supervisor: Sophie Bailly.
  Examination committee: Luca Greco (president), Maria Candea, Natalie Kübler, and Fabienne Baider.

• 2016. MA in English Studies, Université de Lorraine.

• 2003. MA in French Literature, Université Nancy 2.

• 2002. BA in French Literature, Université Nancy 2.

• 2023-2024. Postdoctoral researcher. 

• 2018-2023. Adjunct professeur (chargée d'enseignement vacataire), Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  Classes taught: Gender, sex and language; Applied Linguistics; Research methodology and data analysis; Statistics for linguists; Academic English for Linguists; Methodology of English as a second language; Reading and writing practical English; Writing professional reports in English.

• 2010-2023. Freelance writer (content writing, copywriting, public relations writing), translator (English to French), and voice-over artist.

• 2013-2015. Copywriter, Agence Orient Communication, Nancy, France.

• 2010-2013. Radio writer, producer and host - Luxe Radio, Casablanca, Morocoo.

• 2008-2010. French as a second language teacher, Amicitia American School of Fez, Morocoo (1st grade to 9th grade).

• 2004-2005. French teacher, Lycée français Paul Valéry, Meknès, Morocco.

• Since 2023. Managing Editor, Programming Historian en français. 

• Since 2023. Vice-president of Association GLS (Genre, sexualités, language). 

• Since 2022. Editor, GLAD! (journal about gender, language and sexuality). 

• Since 2021. Member of CopRe (Communicative Practices on Reddit).

You can read my PhD dissertation  here.

Title:   lol thats how reddit talks;) : le site américain Reddit comme espace de variation de l’anglais. Étude de corpus intersectionnelle et quantitative d’usages non standard, au prisme du genre, de l’âge et de l’ethnicité

My PhD work explores  the relationships between non-standard online writing practices and gender on the American community website Reddit. It is based on a corpus of nearly 20 million tokens which contains the comments written in English by 1,044 internet users, including 300 transgender and non-binary people. Using an intersectional sociolinguistic approach, it examines the interaction of gender with age and ethnicity.

I studied 11 non-standard variables:

• 6 graphical and paralinguistic variables: emoticons, emojis, letter lengthenings, punctuation lengthenings, all caps and interjections

• 5 "economical" variables: abbreviations, phonetic spellings, g-droppings, apostrophe omissions and lower case spellings of the pronoun “I”).

In addition to these linguistic analyses, my PhD thesis explores how Internet users construct their virtual identities and occupy the Reddit space, by focusing on the most visible markers of Redditors' activity in the community: pseudonyms, interests, “karma”, longevity of the accounts and forum moderation. The analyses, which are mainly based on the multiple regression method, provide a nuanced account of the way Redditors use non-standard language to index their gender identity. They show, in particular, that transgender women and men rarely align with cisgender women and men. They also suggest that Hispanic and African-American women play a major role in the spread of non-standard spelling and typography.

Keywords: sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics; quantitative linguistics; gender studies; computer-mediated communication