 Education 2003, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Georgia, Linguistics 1998, MA, University of Memphis, Linguistics 1990, BA, University of Mississippi, History/French
Areas of Research and Training
Positions
2002 - present Research assistant for the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada
2000 - present Developer of the Digital Archive of Spoken American English project for the Linguistic Atlas projects under the direction of William Kretzschmar
2001 - 2002 Web master, Linguistics Department University of Georgia
2001 - 2002 Network Specialist and Technical Consultant, Linguistics Department University of Georgia
2002 - present Developer and Webmaster, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
1999-present Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia.
Courses taught: Introduction to Linguistics, Information Technology
1997-1998 Assistant Editor of The Peirce Seminar Papers: Essays in Semiotic Analysis.
Volume IV.
Summer, 1997 EFL Instructor, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
2001. Functional categories and clausal architecture in Papiamentu in Georgia Working Papers in Linguistics, Marlyse Baptista ed. Athens: Georgia UP.
2001. It’s hard fuh me to understand what you mean, de way you tell it”: Representing Dialect in Zora Neale Hurtson’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Language and Literature. Katie Wales, ed. London: Sage Publications.
January 2002. Functional Categories and Phrasal Architecture in Papiamentu. Paper to be presented at SPCL, San Francisco, California.
November 2001. Dialectology for the New Millennium: Spoken Corpora Development and the Linguistic Atlas Projects. Presented at the American Dialect Society’s session at SAMLA.
July 2001. Functional Categories in Papiamentu. Paper presented at the Subtropical Syntax Workshop, Athens, Georgia.
March 2001. Spoken Corpus Development for the Linguistic Atlas Project.
Paper presented at the Third North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics, Boston, Massachusetts.
March 2001 (co-authored). Online @ UGA: New Literacies for New Students.
January 2001. Tense-Aspect Markers in Papiamentu and the Syntax-Pragmatic Interface. Paper presented at the Annual Conference for the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Washington, D.C.
November 2000. Sociolinguistic Variation in Turner’s Gullah Data. Paper presented at Gullah: A Linguistic Legacy of Africans in America—A Conference on the 50th Anniversary of Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect, Washington, D.C.
April 2000. It’s hard fuh me to understand what you mean, de way you tell it: Representing Dialect in Zora Neale Hurtson’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Paper presented at the South Eastern Conference of Linguistics, Oxford, Mississippi.
April 1999. Representing Sex in Writing: Stylistic Differences in Male and Female Texts. Paper presented at the South Eastern Conference of Linguistics, Norfolk, Virginia.
April, 1998. Off the Wall Tendencies: Sociolinguistic Variation in Graffiti. Paper presented at the South Eastern Conference of Linguistics, Lafayette, Louisiana.
1998 – Present Member, South Eastern Conference of Linguistics |
