Education

University of Georgia
PhD, Linguistics, in Progress

North Carolina State University
M. A., English (Linguistics), 2011
Thesis: “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off?: Final Stop Accommodation in Married Couples.” Erik Thomas and Walt Wolfram, advisors

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
M. A., English (Literature), 2004
Comprehension Exam with focus on 19th Century American Literature, Literary Theory

Appalachian State University
B.A., English, 2000

Selected Teaching/Research Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Linguistics, University of Georgia, 2016-Present

Adjunct English Lecturer, Winthrop University, 2012-2015

Adjunct Instructor, Central Piedmont Community College, 2012-2013

Research Assistant, North Carolina Language and Life Project, Walt Wolfram, Director, North Carolina State University, 2009-2011

English Composition Instructor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2004-2006

Graduate Assistantship, English Instructor/Writing Resources Center Tutor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 2002-2004

Writing Lab Coordinator/Tutor, Pädagogische Hochschule, Ralf Thiede and Peter Dines, Advisors Ludwigsburg, Germany, Summer 2003

Honors/Awards/Invitations

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Winner, University of Georgia, 2021.

Invited Panelist, “Student Panel: Serving on Academic Integrity Boards” International Center for Academic Integrity, Southeast Region, October 2019. 

Selected as second person to establish Writing Lab at Pädagogische Hochschule, Ludwigsburg, Germany to assist students learning English/American Academic Composition conventions, 2003. Program received state award for excellence, 2005.

Selected Presentations

“Talk Derby to Me: How Language Influences Individuality on a Sports Team” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, May 2019.

“Tryna Keep up with Tryna: Grammaticalization in the Digital Age” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, May 2019.

“Counting back through history: extrapolating historical phonetic forms with computational methods”with Joseph Rhyne, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. May 2017.

“Fine in the world: Constructing a Lumbee English DDM.” with Hayley Heaton and Channing Johnson, New Ways of Analyzing Variation, November 2011.

“Final stop accommodation in married couples.” Acoustical Society of America, May 2011.

“Peer Accommodation in Adolescent African American English.” African American Language Conference 2, November 2010.

“Ask Me When I Am: Second Generation Adolescent Identity (Re)Construction.” with Dr. Agnes Bolonyai, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, 2010.

“The Effect of Peer Accommodation on the Longitudinal Trajectory of African American English.” with Darya Kostina, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, 2010.

“Workshop in the Composition Classroom: An Alternative to Peer Review.” with Colleen Thorndike, Philological Association of the Carolinas, March 2005.

“Turning the Corner in Literary Studies: An Embodied Approach to Metaphor in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” South Eastern Conference on Linguistics, November 2004.

“Speech Representation in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans.” Philological Association of the Carolinas, March 2004.

“Creating a Dialogue between Europe and America: Two Graduate Students’ Experiences in Europe.” with Erica Britt, International Writing Center Association (IWCA) Conference, October 2003.

“A Writing Center’s Responses to ESL Students’ Needs: Evolving Tutor Training Issues.” with Dr. Deanna Rogers and Erin Lanahan, IWCA Conference, October 2003.

“Restructuring Writing Centers to Reflect Change in the Growing ESL Population: A Discussion of Techniques and Attitudes.” with Erica Britt and Erin Lanahan, SWCA Conference, February 2003.

Courses Taught

University of Georgia: The Study of Language

Winthrop University: Introduction to Academic Discourse

Central Piedmont Community College: Expository Writing, Argument-Based Research, Literature-Based Research, Professional Research & Reporting (Business Writing/Document Design)

University of North Carolina at Charlotte: English Composition, Writing in the Academic Community, Accelerated College Writing and Rhetoric

York Technical College: English Composition I, English Composition II

Selected Service

Office of Academic Honesty, University of Georgia

         Multiple Violations Review Board, 2019-Present

         Honesty Panelist 2018-Present

Linguistic Society of America at the University of Georgia

         Vice President, 2019-2021

         Member, 2016-Present

LSUGA Conference Committee 

Co-Chair, 2019

         Member, 2016-Present

Graduate Student Government, University of Georgia

         Treasurer, 2018-2019

         Senator, 2019-2020, 2017-2018

English Graduate Student Association

         President, 2003-2004

         Treasurer, 2002-2003

Current Professional Memberships

Linguistic Society of America

Southeastern Conference on Linguistics