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Hello! I’m a psycholinguist at Penn State Brandywine. I’m also affiliated with the Penn State Rock Ethics Institute. Here, you can find out about my latest research, teaching, and other professional activities. Most of my papers are available for download via ResearchGate.


  • 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 … Continue reading “New research talk now online”
  • 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.