- A portion of the quantative data collected during my sabbatical project in Malta appears in The Next Century of Maltese Linguistics along with other work from the 8th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (Lingwistika Maltija) in Bremen (2023).
- I represented English in the volume Gender-neutral, Gender-fair, Gender-inclusive, an outgrowth of the Language and Gender: Academic Research and Practical Implementation research network and conference series.
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LSA Philly
The Linguistic Society of America is in Philadelphia this weekend, and SEPTA (the linguistic one) is well represented. I’m giving a talk on L2 English users responses to gender inclusive and nonbinary forms, and beginning my term as the chair of LSA’s Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics (COZIL).
New research talk now online
I recently gave a talk for a meeting of the Moral Psychology Research Group, organized by Daryl Cameron, who runs the Penn State Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. It was nice to join my Penn State colleagues as well as meet faculty and students working on a wide array of topics. I shared a summary of recent work on the ethical dimensions of pronouns, which you can watch here:
Big Ten Workshop on Innovations in Phonetics Teaching & Learning
I’m in Chicago to represent Penn State at this event sponsored by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, which brings together speech researchers from across Big Ten universities (current and future).
Routledge Handbook of Pronouns out now
The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns is now out. It’s a comprehensive look at the linguistic, psychological, and social dimensions of pronouns. I contributed a chapter on nonbinary singular they with Lex Konnelly and Kirby Conrod.
First presentation on Maltese (English) project
I’ll be presenting preliminary results from my sabbatical project on pronouns and other (non)gendered morphology in Maltese and Maltese English at the British Association for Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group on Language, Gender, and Sexuality in Brighton, England on May 2.
Conference on Scholarly Teaching and SoTL in Linguistics (CoSTaSiLÂ 23)
The Faculty Learning Community on Scholarly Teaching in Linguistics announces a new conference to take place July 8–9 at the 2023 LSA Linguistic Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. View the Call for Abstracts and contact me or any of the FLC members with questions.
New Course: Language and Social Justice (Afr/ApLng 230N)
With the support of the Penn State Office of The Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses and the Office for General Education, I’ll be adapting a new course, Language and Social Justice, for our Digital Learning Cooperative in Spring 2024. Thanks to Dr. Busi Makoni (Penn State African Studies & Applied Linguistics) for developing the original syllabus.
Linguistweets
I’ll be presenting at Linguistweets on the topic “Should linguists be prescriptivists?” on December 5th at 3pm UTC (10am EST). The presentation will be on Twitter @BLiMPlab_PSU and Mastodon @yEvb0@mastodon.lol.