Mary Bucholtz

Current Position

Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008-present

Previous Positions

• Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004-08
• Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002-04
• Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Discourse Studies, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 1997-2002
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Fall 2001

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
• M.A., Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
• B.A., Department of Classics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1990

Dissertation

Title: "Borrowed Blackness: African American Vernacular English and European American Youth Identities"
Committee members: Robin Tolmach Lakoff (chair), Susan Ervin-Tripp, Leanne Hinton, John Rickford (Stanford University), Barrie Thorne

Honors and Awards

• Academic Senate Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005
• Montague Scholar, Center for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University, 1998
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
• Teaching Effectiveness Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
• Alumni Achievement Award for academic excellence and community service, Grinnell College, 1990
• Phi Beta Kappa, Grinnell College, 1989
• National Merit Scholar, Grinnell College, 1986

Grants and Fellowships

External Grants and Fellowships

• Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement to funded project "The Role of Social Interaction in the Development of Scientist Identities and the Retention of Undergraduate Women in Science Majors," National Science Foundation, 2007-09
• "The Role of Social Interaction in the Development of Scientist Identities and the Retention of Undergraduate Women in Science Majors," National Science Foundation, 2006-09
• "Language and Social Marginalization among Academically Oriented Latino High-School Students," Small Grants Program, Spencer Foundation, 2004
• "Conference on Perception and Realization in Language and Gender Research," National Science Foundation, 2002
• National Science Foundation, Advance Leadership Award, Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (faculty associate; Monica Macaulay, principal investigator), 2001
• "Whiteness and Linguistic Practices in a California High School," Richard Carley Hunt Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2000
• Phi Beta Kappa graduate scholarship, Northern California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1995
• Linguistic Society of America Fellowship, Linguistic Institute, Ohio State University, 1993
• Linguistic Society of America Fellowship, Linguistic Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991

Internal Grants and Fellowships

• "Vox California: Cultural Meanings of Linguistic Diversity," Systemwide Workshop Grant, Humanities Research Center, University of California, 2008 (with H. Samy Alim, Patricia Baquedano-López, and Dolores Inés Casillas)
• "Representing: African American Language in American Culture," Faculty Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008
• "School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society (SKILLS)," Collaborative Research Initiative Grant, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008 (with Jin-Sook Lee)
• "Vox California: Cultural Meanings of Linguistic Diversity," Faculty Collaborative Project Award, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008 (with Dolores Inés Casillas)
• "Social Interaction and Scientist Identities among Undergraduate Women in Science," Social Science Research Grant, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
• "Academic Achievement and Social Interaction among Latino Immigrant High School Students," Faculty Research Grant, Center for Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
• "The Role of Social Interaction in the Development of Scientist Identities and the Retention of Undergraduate Women in Science Majors," Faculty Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
• "English Language Learning and Peer Interactional Practices among High-Achieving Immigrant High School Students," Faculty Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005
• Junior Faculty Research Incentive Grant, Academic Senate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
• "Language, Peer Culture, and Academic Achievement among Latino High School Students in California," Faculty Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
• "Signifying Nothing: Language, Youth, and Whiteness," Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003
• "An Ethnographic Approach to the Linguistic Production of Social Identity," Faculty Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003
• Research Fellowship, Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, 2001-02
• "Signifying Nothing: Language, Youth, and Whiteness," Matching Funds Grant, Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, 2000
• Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program grant, Department of English, Texas A&M University, Fall 1999, funding for undergraduate research assistant
• Center for Humanities Research Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 1999-2000
• Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program grant, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 1998, funding for undergraduate research assistant
• Faculty Mini-Grant, Texas A&M University, 1999
• Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program grant, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 1998, funding for undergraduate research assistant
• Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1996-97
• Chancellor's Humanities Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1995-96
• Vice Chancellor for Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
• Humanities Graduate Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
• George C. and Helen N. Pardee Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, 1990-91

Teaching Grants

• Instructional Improvement Faculty Minigrant, Office of Instructional Development, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
• Instructional Improvement Faculty Minigrant, Office of Instructional Development, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005
• Instructional Improvement Web Minigrant, Office of Instructional Development, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
• Instructional Improvement Faculty Minigrant, Office of Instructional Development, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
• Instructional Improvement Faculty Minigrant, Office of Instructional Development, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003
• Instructional Improvement Grant, Office of Instructional Development, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003
• Instructional Improvement Faculty Minigrant, Office of Instructional Development, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002
• Computer Access Fee Fund, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, Fall 1999 (with Lisa Ann Lane)
• Incentive Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University, 1998
• Faculty Mini-Grant, Texas A&M University, 1998
• Course Improvement Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 1996, 1995, 1992 (Fall, Spring)

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• Series Editor, Studies in Language and Gender, Oxford University Press, 1998-present
• Editor, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2002-04 (with Elizabeth Keating)
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 1999-2001, 2005-present
• Editorial Board Member, Visual Communication, 2004-present
• Editorial Board Member, Language in Society, 2005-present
• Editorial Board Member, Gender and Language, 2005-present
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Research in Critical Discourse Analysis, 2005-present
• Editorial Board Member, Linguistics and Language Compass, 2006-present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2007-present
• Editorial Board Member, American Speech, 2008-present
• Editorial Board Member, American Anthropologist, 2008-present

Institutes and Short Courses

• Invited Lecturer, SociolinguisticsFest, Department of Linguistics, Indiana University, June 2008 (four lectures)
• Instructor, Linguistic Society of America Institute, Michigan State University, Language and Gender, Linguistics 800Q, Summer 2003
• Instructor, Linguistic Society of America Institute, Stanford University, Language and Identity, LSA 333, Summer 2007 (team-taught with Kira Hall)

Teaching Experience

University of California, Santa Barbara

• Language and Culture, Linguistics 227 (graduate level), 2004
• Methods in Sociocultural Linguistics, Linguistics 230 (graduate level), 2004, 2005, 2008
• Foundations of Sociocultural Linguistics, Linguistics 232 (graduate level), 2002, 2004, 2006
• Seminar in Sociocultural Linguistics: Doing Difference/Using Difference, Linguistics 258A-B/Sociology 242 (graduate level), 2005 (team-taught with Gene Lerner)
• Seminar in Sociocultural Linguistics: Language and Identity, Linguistics 258A and 258B/288 (graduate level), 2003
• Language in Society, Linguistics 70, 2003, 2004, 2006
• Slang and American Youth Cultures, Interdisciplinary Studies 94 (freshman seminar), 2003
• Sociolinguistics, Linguistics 131, 2004, 2007
• Language, Gender, and Sexuality, Linguistics 132, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• African American Language and Culture, Linguistics 136, 2006, 2008
• Language in Social Interaction, Linguistics 170, 2003

Texas A&M University

• General Linguistics (graduate level), Linguistics 608, 2000
• Sociolinguistics (graduate level), Linguistics 602, 1998, 2002
• Structure of Discourse (graduate level), Linguistics 668, 2001
• Topics in Discourse Studies (graduate level), English 665, 1999
• Old English (graduate level), English 605, 1998
• Language and Society, Linguistics 402, 2000
• Language and Gender Across Cultures, Linguistics/Psychology/Women's Studies 489, 1999 (team-taught with Jyotsna Vaid)
• History of the English Language, English/Linguistics 310, 1999, 2001, 2002
• Representations of African American English, Senior Seminar, English/Linguistics 481, 1998
• Introduction to Linguistics (honors), Linguistics 209H, 1998
• The Rhetoric of Style, English 355, 1997, 1999
• Introduction to Applied Linguistics, Linguistics 425, 1997

Stanford University

• Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Language and Race, Linguistics 255A (graduate level), 2001
• Language and Gender, Linguistics/Feminist Studies 146, 2001

University of California, Berkeley (Instructor)

• Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Linguistics 5, 1996
• Writing Workshop, Special Topic: The Political and Social Uses of Academic Writing, Linguistics 5W, 1995
• The American Languages, Linguistics 55, University of California, Berkeley, 1994 (Fall, Summer)
• Language Study for Educators, Education 240A (graduate level), School of Education, 1995
• Graduate Student Instructor Training, Linguistics 302 (graduate level), 1992

University of California, Berkeley (Graduate Student Instructor)

• Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Linguistics 5, 1993 (Fall, Spring)
• The American Languages, Linguistics 55, 1994, 1992, 1991

Student Supervision

Ph.D. Dissertations Directed

• Akiyo Maruyama Cantrell, "Hiroshima Stories: The Construction of Collective Memorialization in Survivors' Narratives," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (co-chair; completed 2006)
• Jennifer Garland, "The Minority Language and the Cosmopolitan Speaker: Ideologies of Irish Language Learners," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (chair; completed 2008)
• Ken Nozaki Lacy, "Narrative and Identity in Fantasy Role-Playing Games," Department of Linguistics, New York University (co-chair; completed 2005)
• Shannon Nolte, Ph.D., "'Next Time Just Send the Money!': Tourism and the Rhetoric of Dissensus," Department of English, Texas A&M University (completed March 2000)
• Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Ph.D., "Globalization, Language, and Social Order: Ideologies of English in South Korea," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (co-chair; completed July 2004)
• Elena Skapoulli, "Local and Global Cultural Encounters and the Linguistic Negotiation of Youth Identity in Cyprus," Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara (co-chair; completed 2005)

Master's Theses and Thesis Equivalents Directed

• Megan Barnard, "Engaging in Discourse about Feminism," Department of English, Texas A&M University (completed October 2001)
• Christy Bird, " 'I'm Almost Afraid to Tell This': Risk and Performance in the Prefacing of Formulaic Jokes in Interaction," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2008)
• Jennifer Garland, "The Interactional Competence of Linguistically Less Competent Speakers in Co-Constructing Activities," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2003)
• Lea Harper, "The Representation of African American Vernacular English in the Media," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2006)
• Annette Harrison, "The Use of Proper Nouns as an Index of Group Identity in Fulfulde Personal Narratives," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed May 2004)
• Mara Henderson, "A Gay Style: The Role of Sexual Reframing in the Construction of Interactional and Group Identities in Play," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2004)
• Jung-Eun Lee, "Representations of Asian Speech in Hollywood Films," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2006)
• Kyung-Ae Oh, "Self-Representation and Korean Honorific Shifts," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2005)

Undergraduate Projects Directed

• Nancy Bermudez, Lisa Edwards, Victor Fung, and Rosalva Vargas, "Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (independent research project; completed 2006)
• Amanda Derby, " 'Be Loud!': Language and Gender in the Athletic Context," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2005)
• Julián Gil Chang, "The Controversy between Valencian and Catalan," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (independent research project; completed 2007)
• Arielle Gereboff, "A Study of Instant Messaging and Gender," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (independent research project; completed 2004)
• Stephanie Kao and Joanna Metoki, "Curing 'Yellow Fever': A Close Examination of the White Male-Asian Female Phenomenon," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (independent research project; completed 2007)
• Zoe Lampros, "Regional Minority Languages, Official Language Policy, and Reversing Language Shift: The Cases of Québecois French, Breton, and Welsh," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (independent research project; completed 2007)
• Katherine Rushton, "Wonderful Copenhagen to Gästvänliga Atlanta: Emblematic English in Swedish Advertising," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (senior honors thesis; completed 2007; winner of the UCSB William R. Reardon Undergraduate Award for outstanding academic achievement in the arts or humanities)
• Corinne Seals, "Te Espero: Varying Child Bilingual Abilities and the Effects on Family Dynamics in Mexican Immigrant Families," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (junior honors thesis; completed 2007)
• Stephanie Stanbro, "Beer Powered Bicycle: Narrative Ethnography and Print Representations of Punk/Hardcore," Department of English, Texas A&M University (completed 2000)
• Emilee Woods, " 'Super Jiggy': Language Socialization and Cultural Ideologies in Underground Hip Hop," Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2005; winner of the UCSB Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and honorable mention for the UCSB Emeriti Association Undergraduate Scholarship Competition)

Ph.D. Committees

• Maryam Bakht-Rofheart, Department of Linguistics, New York University
• Laura Carroll, Department of English, Texas A&M University (completed 2002)
• Jesse Gillispie, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Lea Harper, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (chair)
• Annette Harrison, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (chair)
• Lori Heintzelman, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado
• Mara Henderson, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (chair)
• Satoko Kobayashi, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2008)
• Jung-Eun Janie Lee, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (chair)
• Christine Mallinson, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, North Carolina State University (completed 2006)
• Mikaela Marlow, Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Minerva Oropeza-Escobar, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2005)
• Eva Oxelson, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Jennifer Schindel, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University (completed 2005)
• Petra Scott Shenk, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (chair)
• Reijirou Shibasaki, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2005)
• Valerie Sultan, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Hiroko Takanashi, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2004)
• Monica Turk, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2006)

Master's Committees

• Madeleine Adkins, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (chair)
• Jennifer Allen, Department of Modern Languages (Spanish), Texas A&M University (completed 2001)
• Daniel Baumgardt, Department of English, Texas A&M University (completed 2001)
• Chung Ho Ying, Department of English, Hong Kong University (external examiner; completed 2005)
• Victoria Holt Deen, Department of English, Texas A&M University, completed 2001 (chair)
• Susan Dummer, Department of Speech Communication, Texas A&M University (completed 2002)
• Kira Griffitt, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2008)
• Joshua Hill, Department of English, Texas A&M University (completed 2002)
• Ken Hugoniot, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2003)
• Kobin Kendrick, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2006)
• Thomas Matthew Kimbrough, Department of English, Texas A&M University (completed 2000)
• N. Logan Klein, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2006)
• Satoko Kobayashi, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2006)
• Misty Krueger, Department of English, Texas A&M University (completed 2003)
• Eva Oxelson, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2005)
• Petra Scott Shenk, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2004)
• Valerie Sultan, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (completed 2004)
• Nicole Taylor, Department of English, Texas A&M University (chair; completed 2000)

Offices Held

• Chair, Nominations Committee, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 2000-01 (appointed)
• Advisory Council Member and Co-Chair, International Gender and Language Association, 2000-04 (elected)

Committee Work

International and National Committee Work

• Affiliate, Feminist Conversation Analysis Unit, Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication, University of York, 2007-present
• Member, J. I. Staley Prize Selection Committee (for best book in anthropology), School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM, 2006-07
• Member, Language and Social Justice Task Group, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 2006-present
• Member, Nominations Committee, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 1999-2000
• Co-Facilitator, Gender and Language Association Organizing Committee, 1999-2000
• Member, Advisory Board, Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance, 1996-present
• National Student Representative, Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America, June 1995-December 1997
• Member, Task Force on the Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance, Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America, 1996
• Member, Task Force on Language and Gender Research Award, Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America, 1992-93

University Committee Work, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Chair, Advisory Committee, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, 2008-present
• Graduate Mentorship Awards Selection Committee, Academic Senate, 2008
• Ad Hoc Committee, Writing Program Review, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, 2007-08
• Advisory Committee, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, 2006-present
• Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, Department of Linguistics, 2005-present
• Advisory Committee, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 2004-present
• Central Continuing Student Fellowship Committee, Graduate Division, 2004-05
• Distinguished Teaching Award Selection Committee, Academic Senate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004-05
• Central Continuing Student Fellowship Committee, Graduate Division, 2003-04
• Co-Facilitator, Research Focus Group and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Emphasis in Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, 2003-04, 2006-07
• Executive Committee, Ph.D. Emphasis in Applied Linguistics, 2002-07
• Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Linguistics, 2002-05

Departmental Committee Work, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Webmaster, Department of Linguistics, 2006-present
• Newsletter Editor, Department of Linguistics, 2006-present
• Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, Department of Linguistics, 2005-07
• Web Committee, Department of Linguistics, 2005-06
• Co-Facilitator, Interdisciplinary Research Focus Group on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, 2003-04, 2006-07
• Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Linguistics, 2002-07

Committee Work, Texas A&M University

• Henry Jameson Prize Committee, Women's Studies Program, Texas A&M University, Spring 2000
• Advisory Committee, Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, Spring 2000
• "Urbanity" Lecture Series Subcommittee, Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, Spring 2000
• Graduate Studies Committee, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 1998-2001, 2002-present
• Hiring Priorities Committee, Department of English, Texas A&M University, Spring 1999
• Graduate Studies Subcommittee on Program Review, Department of English, Texas A&M University, Fall 1998
• Interdisciplinary Group for Humanities Studies Conference Planning Committee, Texas A&M University, 1998-present
• Discourse Studies Committee, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 1997-present

Committee Work, University of California, Berkeley

• Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics, 1993-94

Conference Organization

Conferences Organized

• "Ethnographic Methods in Sociocultural Linguistics," Linguistic Society of America Institute, Stanford University, July 2007 (with Kira Hall)
• "Language and the Body in a Material World," Second Santa Barbara Symposium on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2007
• "Transcribing Now: Means and Meaning in the Transcription of Spoken Interaction," University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2005 (with John W. Du Bois)
• "Perception and Realization in Language and Gender Research," Michigan State University, East Lansing, July 2003 (with Miriam Meyerhoff)
• "Cultural Performances," Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley, April 1994 (with A. C. Liang and Laurel A. Sutton)
• "Locating Power," Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley, April 1992 (with Kira Hall and Birch Moonwomon)

Conference Committees

• "Silence and Expression," 2000 Conference Planning Committee, Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, 1998-2000
• Abstract Review Coordinator, Language and Gender, American Association for Applied Linguistics, 1999
• "Rewriting Literacies," Literacy Symposium Planning Committee, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 1999

Panels Organized

• Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis Roundtable, Fifth Meeting of the International Gender and Language Association, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, July 2008 (with Ann Weatherall)
• "Indexicality in Interaction," Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Amsterdam, April 2008
• "Learning the Language of Scientific Practice," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Dec. 2007 (with Elena Skapoulli)
• "National Identities in a Transnational World," Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA, April 2007
• "Youth Language at the Intersection: Globalization, Transnationalism, Identity," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2006 (with Elena Skapoulli)
• "Undisciplined Language: New Dialogues between Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2006 (with Kira Hall)
• "Undoing the Disciplinary Divide in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology," Annual Meeting of the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Ohio State University, Columbus, Nov. 2006
• "Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Shared Histories and New Perspectives," Limerick, Ireland, July 2006 (with Kira Hall)
• "Transcription Issues in Current Linguistic Research," Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM, Jan. 2006 (with John W. Du Bois)
• "Transcribing Now: Representations of Discourse in Anthropology," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2005, invited session (with John W. Du Bois)
• "Texas Discourse," Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Pasadena, Oct. 2002
• "Real-Time Discourses of Whiteness: Linguistic Productions of Identity and Ideology," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 1999, invited session (with Sara Trechter)
• "Interdisciplinarity in Discourse Studies: Making the Connections Visible," Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 1999 (with Christopher Holcomb)
• "Styling the 'Other': The Representation and Performance of Outgroup Identities," Sixth International Pragmatics Conference, Reims, July 1998, invited session (with Ben Rampton)
• "Liminal Linguists: Women in Nontraditional Professional Positions," Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, Jan. 1998 (with Yukako Sunaoshi)
• "(Field)working Whiteness: Representations of Blackness in California White Identities," Annual Meeting of the California American Studies Association, Berkeley, April 1997 (with Robert McMichael and Pamela Perry)
• "Crossing and African American Vernacular English," Annual Meeting of the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Oct. 1996 (with Lanita Jacobs-Huey)

Other Professional Activities

Peer Review

• Grant Proposal Reviewer, National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium), National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• Journal Manuscript Reviewer, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, American Speech, Applied Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse and Society, Discourse Studies, Estudios de Sociolingüística, Ethnos, Feminism and Psychology, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of English Linguistics, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, Linguistics and Education, Linguistics and Language Compass, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Text and Talk
• Book Manuscript and Proposal Reviewer, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mouton de Gruyter, Oxford University Press, Palgrave/Macmillan, Routledge, University of California Press
• Abstract Reviewer, Berkeley Women and Language Conference, International Gender and Language Association Conference, Linguistic Society of America Conference, New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference

Web Pages

• Perception and Realization in Language and Gender Research. Reports and materials from the 2003 conference held at Lansing, Michigan
• The Language and Gender Page. Resources for scholars and students
• Reinventing Identities. A supplemental web site for Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse (Oxford University Press, 1999)
• Resources for Sociocultural Linguistics. Information for undergraduates, graduate students, and junior faculty
• Transcription in Action. Resources for the representation of linguistic interaction

Memberships

• Participant, Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Research Focus Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002-present
• Participant, Ethnography/Theory Group, Texas A&M University, 1997-present
• Participant, Townsend Center for the Humanities Critical Studies in Whiteness Reading Group, 1995-97; Townsend Working Group on Mapping Racial and Ethnic Alternatives, 1994-95; Townsend Narrative Working Group, 1992-94
• Member, American Anthropological Association, American Association for Applied Linguistics, American Dialect Society, Association for Feminist Anthropology, International Gender and Language Association, International Pragmatics Association, Linguistic Society of America, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Pro Bono and Consulting Work

• Office of the Federal Defender, Fresno CA, May 2000. Consulted regarding lexical semantics in wiretap evidence for use in court brief
• MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, "Do You Speak American?" four-part television series, Sept. 1999. Consulted regarding content of television series on language issues in the United States
• Office of the Public Defender, Cranston RI, June 1998, consulted regarding textual analysis of written evidence
• Office of the Public Defender, Alameda County CA, Feb. 1996, researched semantics and lexicon of AAVE for use in court brief
• Office of the Public Defender, Contra Costa County CA, June 1995, conducted discourse analysis of police interrogation; wrote brief

Mentoring

• Co-Presenter, "Applying to Graduate School," Society of Linguistics Undergraduates, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, Oct. 2007 (with Andrew Garrett)
• Panelist, "Publishing and Tenure," Dissertation-Year Fellows and President's Postdoctoral Fellows Annual Meeting, Office of the President, University of California, Oakland, Sept. 2007
• Workshop, "Writing Successful Grant Proposals for Graduate Research," Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara, Jan. 2007
• Participant, Mentor Workshop, National Association of Student Anthropologists, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. 2003
• Workshop Leader, "The Job Search," Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics Academic Survival Skills Workshop, Linguistic Society of America Institute, Michigan State University, July 2003
• Participant, "Workshop on Publication," Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Nov. 2002
• Mentor, Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance, 1996-present
• Mentor, Graduate Assistant Teacher Faculty Mentoring Program, Writing Programs Office, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 1999

Areas of Specialization

sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; discourse; language and identity; language and youth; language, gender, and sexuality; African American English; Mexican and Chicano Spanish; language and scientific practice; linguistic diversity of California

Languages

Ancient Greek, Classical Latin, Italian, Middle English, Old English, Spanish, Yiddish
Reading knowledge of French and German
Structural knowledge of Uighur

Publications

Under Contract

• Styling: Language and White Youth Cultures, Cambridge University Press

Edited Volumes

• Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries, original text by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, edited by Mary Bucholtz, revised and expanded edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004
• Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1999 (with A. C. Liang and Laurel Sutton)
• Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, Routledge, 1995 (with Kira Hall)
• Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1995 (with A. C. Liang, Laurel Sutton, and Caitlin Hines)
• Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1992 (with Kira Hall and Birch Moonwomon)

Edited Special Issues

• "Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Strengthening the Connections," special issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics, forthcoming (with Kira Hall)
• "Discourses of Whiteness," special issue of Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11(1), 2001 (with Sara Trechter)

Journal Articles

• "All of the Above: New Coalitions in Sociocultural Linguistics," Journal of Sociolinguistics, forthcoming (with Kira Hall)
• "Finding Identity: Theory and Data," Multilingua 27(1-2), 151-163, 2008 (with Kira Hall)
• "The Normative North and the Stigmatized South: Ideology and Methodology in the Perceptual Dialectology of California," Journal of English Linguistics 36(1): 62-87, 2008 (with Nancy Bermudez, Lisa Edwards, Victor Fung, and Rosalva Vargas)
• "Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California," Journal of English Linguistics 35(4): 325-352, 2007 (with Nancy Bermudez, Lisa Edwards, Victor Fung, and Rosalva Vargas)
• "Variation in Transcription," Discourse Studies 9(6), forthcoming 2007 (discussion focus article)
• "Response: Variability in Transcribers," Discourse Studies 9(6), forthcoming 2007 (response to commentaries)
• "Identity and Interaction: A Sociocultural Linguistic Approach," Discourse Studies, 7(4-5): 585-614, 2005 (with Kira Hall)
• "Styles and Stereotypes: The Linguistic Negotiation of Identity among Laotian American Youth," Pragmatics 14(2-3), 2004
• "Theorizing Identity in Language and Sexuality Research," Language in Society 33(4): 501-547, 2004 (with Kira Hall)
• "Sociolinguistic Nostalgia and the Authentication of Identity," Journal of Sociolinguistics 7(3): 398-416, 2003
• "Youth and Cultural Practice," Annual Review of Anthropology 31: 525-552, 2002
• "Introduction: Bringing Language into Whiteness Studies," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11(1): 3-21, 2001 (with Sara Trechter)
• "The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11(1): 84-100, 2001
• "Reflexivity and Critique in Discourse Analysis," Critique of Anthropology 21(2): 168-183, 2001
• "Language and Youth Culture," American Speech 75(3): 61-63, 2000, special anniversary issue
• "The Politics of Transcription," Journal of Pragmatics 32(8): 1439-1465, 2000
• "Gender," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1): 77-80, special issue: Lexicon for the New Millennium, ed. Alessandro Duranti, 2000
• "You da Man: Narrating the Racial Other in the Linguistic Production of White Masculinity," Journal of Sociolinguistics 3(4): 443-460, 1999
• "'Why Be Normal?': Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls," Language in Society 28(2): 203-223, 1999

Book Chapters

• "From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang," in Alexandra Jaffe (ed.), Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Stance, New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
• "Shop Talk: Branding, Consumption, and Gender in American Middle-Class Youth Interaction," in Bonnie McElhinny, ed., Words, Worlds, and Material Girls: Language, Gender, Globalized Economy, Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 371-402, 2007
• "Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture," In Jane Goodman and Leila Monaghan, eds., Interpersonal Communication: An Ethnographic Approach, Blackwell, pp. 243-267, 2006
• "Sociolinguistics and Political Economy," in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Elsevier, pp. 493-495, 2006
• "Gender, Sexuality, and Language," in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Elsevier, pp. 756-758, 2006 (with Kira Hall)
• "Editor's Introduction," in Mary Bucholtz, ed., Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries, original text by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, revised and expanded edition, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-14, 2004
• "Changing Places: Language and Woman's Place in Context," in Mary Bucholtz, ed., Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries, original text by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, revised and expanded edition, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 121-128, 2004
• "Language, Gender, and Sexuality," in Edward Finegan and John R. Rickford, eds., Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 410-429, 2004
• "Language and Identity," in Alessandro Duranti, ed., A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 369-394 (with Kira Hall)
• "Theories of Discourse as Theories of Gender: Discourse Analysis in Language and Gender Studies," in Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff, eds., The Handbook of Language and Gender, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 43-68, 2003
• "Geek Feminism," in Sarah Benor, Mary Rose, Devyani Sharma, Julie Sweetland, and Qing Zhang (eds.), Gendered Practices in Language, Stanford, CA: CSLI, pp. 277-307, 2002
• "'Thanks for Stopping By': Gender and Virtual Community in American Shop-By-Television Discourse," in Maggie Andrews and Mary Talbot (eds.), "All the World and Her Husband": Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture, Cassell, 2000, pp. 192-209
• "Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies," in Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, and Laurel Sutton (eds.), Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 3-24
• "Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel," in Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, and Laurel Sutton (eds.), Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 348-368
• "Black Feminist Theory and African American Women's Linguistic Practice," in Victoria Bergvall, Janet Bing, and Alice Freed (eds.), Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice, Longman, 1996, pp. 267-290
• "Introduction: Twenty Years after Language and Woman's Place," in Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, Routledge, 1995, pp. 1-24 (with Kira Hall)
• "From Mulatta to Mestiza: Language and the Reshaping of Ethnic Identity," in Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, Routledge, 1995, pp. 351-374
• "Language in Evidence: The Pragmatics of Translation in the Judicial Process," in Marshall Morris (ed.), Translation in the Law, John Benjamins, 1995, pp. 115-129

Proceedings Chapters

• "Indexing Gender and Youth Style through Slang," in Britt-Louise Gunnarsson, Sonja Entzenberg, and Maria Ohlsson, eds., Språk och kön i nutida och historiskt perspektiv: Studier presenterade vid den sjätte nodiska konferensen om språk och kön Uppsala den 6-7 oktober 2006 ( Language and Gender in Present-Day and Historical Perspective: Studies Presented at the Sixth Nordic Conference on Language and Gender, Uppsala, October 6-7 2006 ), University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2007, 11-32.
• "From 'Sex Differences' to Gender Variation in Sociolinguistics," in Papers from NWAV 30 (University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 8.2), University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics, pp. 33-45, 2002
• "Play, Identity, and Linguistic Representation in the Performance of Accent," in Kate Henning, Nicole Netherton, and Leighton Peterson, eds., Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium about Language and Society--Austin, University of Texas Department of Linguistics, pp. 227-251, 2002
• "Geek the Girl: Language, Femininity, and Female Nerds," in Natasha Warner, Jocelyn Ahlers, Leela Bilmes, Monica Oliver, Suzanne Wertheim, and Melinda Chen (eds.), Gender and Belief Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1998, pp. 119-131
• "The Powers That Buy: Women's Agency and the Discourse of the Shopping Channel," in Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, Laurel Sutton, and Caitlin Hines (eds.), Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1994, pp. 50-61
• "Language in Evidence: The Pragmatics of Translation in the Courtroom," in Robin Queen and Rusty Barrett, eds., Proceedings of the First Symposium about Language and Society--Austin, University of Texas Department of Linguistics, 1993, pp. 32-41
• "The Mixed Discourse Genre as a Social Resource for Participants," Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1993, pp. 40-51

Translations and Reprints

• "Locating Identity in Language," in Carmen Llamas and Dominic J. L. Watt (eds.), Language and Identities, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming (reprint of Bucholtz and Hall 2005, "Identity and Interaction" [excerpted]; with Kira Hall)
• "Styles and Stereotypes: The Linguistic Negotiation of Identity among Laotian American Youth," in Adrienne Lo and Angela Reyes (eds.), Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America, New York: Oxford University Press (reprint of Bucholtz 2004, "Styles and Stereotypes"), forthcoming
• "Beyond Jocks and Burnouts: Nerds, Gender, and Linguistic Identity Practices," in Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds.), The New Sociolinguistics Reader, Palgrave/Macmillan (revised and excerpted version of Bucholtz 1999, "Why Be Normal?"), forthcoming
• " Gènere, consum i interacció entre els joves americans," Noves-SL: Revista de Sociolingüística (Catalan translation of Bucholtz forthcoming, "Shop Talk" [excerpted]), Winter 2008
• "Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies," in Jane Sunderland, Language and Gender: An Advanced Resource Book , London: Routledge, pp. 127-129 (reprint of Bucholtz 1999, "Bad Examples" [excerpted]), 2006
• "Geek Feminism," in Jane Sunderland, Language and Gender: An Advanced Resource Book , London: Routledge, pp. 217-222 (reprint of Bucholtz 2002, "Geek Feminism" [excerpted]), 2006
• "The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness," in David Atkinson, Karen Atkinson, and Mary Talbot (eds.), Language and Power in the Modern World, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (reprint of Bucholtz 2001, "The Whiteness of Nerds"), 2003
• " 'Why Be Normal?': Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls," in Janet Maybin (ed.), Language and Literacy in a Changing World, Milton Keynes: Open University/Trentham Books, pp. 141-158 (reprint of Bucholtz 1999, "Why Be Normal?" [excerpted]), 2003
• "Minek legyek normális?": Nyelvi és identitásgyakorlatok különk lányok kösösségében," Replika 45/46, pp. 191-211 (Hungarian translation of Bucholtz 1999, "Why Be Normal?"), 2001
• "Gender," in Alessandro Duranti, ed., Key Terms in Language and Culture, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 75-78 (reprint of Bucholtz 2000, "Gender"), 2000
• " 'Frauensprache' im Wandel feministischer Theorien," Das Argument 229(1): 47-52 (with Kira Hall; German translation of Bucholtz & Hall 1995 [excerpted]), 1997

Reviews

• Language and Sexuality, Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10(4):928-929, 2004 (with Kira Hall)
• The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, ed. Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton, Language 80(4):862-865, 2004
• Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting, Mimi Nichter, Language in Society 31(5):811-815, 2002
• Debating Diversity: Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance, Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren, Language in Society 30(2):268-272, 2001
• Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture, Valerie Babb, South Central Review 17(2): 103-104
• Women Talk, Jennifer Coates, American Speech, 74(4): 433-436, 1999
• Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia and Kira Hall, American Anthropologist 101(4): 855-856, 1999
• Language and Masculinity, ed. Sally Johnson and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Language in Society 28(2): 308-312, 1999
• The Matrix of Language: Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology, ed. Donald Brenneis and Ronald K. S. Macaulay, Language 73(4):907-908, 1997
• Feminism and Discourse: Psychological Perspectives, ed. Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger, and Identities, Groups, and Social Issues, ed. Margaret Wetherell, Discourse and Society, 8(3):426-427, 1997
• Reproducing Rape: Domination through Talk in the Courtroom, by Gregory M. Matoesian, American Anthropologist, Dec. 1994, 96(4): 1004-1005

Presentations

Invited Lectures and Symposia

• "Stance, Style, and Indexicality: Tools for Renewing Socio(cultural) Linguistics," Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 2007
• "Styling Blackness: Gender and Racial Ideologies in White Uses of African American English in Hollywood Film," Linguistic Anthropology Working Group, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 2007
• "Styling Blackness: Gender and Racial Ideologies in the White Use of African American English in Film," Conference on Language and Social Practice, University of Colorado, Oct. 2007
• ¿Qué Onda, Güey?: Slang, Gender, and Latino Migrant Youth Styles," Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, May 2007
• "I'm Like Yeah but She's All No: Innovative Quotative Markers and Youth Identities in Interaction," Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis, November 2006
• "¿Qué Onda, Güey?: Slang, Gender, and Latino Migrant Youth Styles," Workshop on Language Ideology and Change in Multilingual Communities, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego, Oct. 2006
• "Indexing Gender and Youth Style through Slang," Sixth Scandinavian Conference on Language and Gender, Uppsala, Sweden, Oct. 2006
• "Guey: Slang, Affiliation, and Masculinity among Latino Migrant Teenagers," Symposium on Honorification and Enregisterment in Discursive Practice, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, June 2006
• " 'I Guess I'm White': Interviews, Interaction, and Ethnic Self-Classification," Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2006
• "The (Re)Emergence of Sociocultural Linguistics and New Ways of Analyzing the Sociolinguistic Interview," Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, New York University, April 2006
• "Styling, Quoting, and California Youth Identities in Interaction," Colloquium Series, Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, Nov. 2005
• "Stance, Style, and Identity in California Teenagers' Use of Innovative Quotative Markers," Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Sept. 2005
• "(Re)presenting Identity in Interaction," Conference on the Language and Identity Tapestry, Georgetown Linguistics Society, Georgetown University, Feb. 2005
• "From Stance to Style: Innovative Quotative Markers and Youth Identities in Discourse," Workshop on Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Age, Department of Linguistics, New York University, Nov. 2004
• "Nerdiness as a Gender Style among California Teenage Girls," Lecture Series on Gender and Culture, Women's Studies Program, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Oct. 2004
• "Intersubjectivity and Interaction: A Sociocultural Linguistic Approach," Theories and Models of Language, Interaction, and Culture: A Symposium, Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, Feb. 2004 (with Kira Hall)
• "Shop Talk: Gendered Discourses of Class, Consumption, and Style among American Youth," Words, Worlds, and Material Girls: A Workshop on Language, Gender, and Political Economy, University of Toronto, Oct. 2003
• "Nostalgic Sociolinguistics and the Authentication of Identity," Annual Meeting of the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Stanford University, Oct. 2002
• "Tactics of Subjectivity," Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of Chicago, May 2002
• "Identity and Intertextuality in Live-Action Role-Playing Games," Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, April 2002
• "Selfless Desires?: Language and the Materiality of Sexual Identity," Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, Washington, DC, Feb. 2002 (with Kira Hall)
• "Tactics of Subjectivity," Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, Washington, DC, Feb. 2002 (with Kira Hall)
• "The Discursive Boundaries of Performance and Identity in Science Fiction Role-Playing Games," Sociolinguistics Colloquium Series, Georgetown University, Feb. 2002
• "Accent Performance and the Negotiation of Identity in Science Fiction Role-Playing Games," Linguistics Colloquium Series, Stanford University, Nov. 2001
• "From 'Sex Differences' to Gender Variation in Sociolinguistics," Annual Meeting of the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Raleigh, NC, Oct. 2001
• "Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture," Language and Culture Online Symposium 8, May 2001 (website currently under construction; click here for a slightly edited version without graphics or audio clips)
• "From Nerdiness to Hip Hop: White Youth Identities and the California Vowel Shift," Language and Literature Colloquium Series, Truman State University, April 2001
• "Play, Identity, and Linguistic Representation in the Performance of Accent," Symposium about Language and Society--Austin, University of Texas, April 2001
• "Indexing Nerdiness: Race, Gender, and the Rejection of Youth Culture in a California High School," Urban Sociolinguistics Group, New York University, Nov. 2000
• "Geek Feminism," First International Gender and Language Association Conference, Stanford University, May 2000
• "Nerd Girls, Hip-Hop Boys, and the California Vowel Shift," Department of English, Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of North Texas, March 2000
• "Leaders and Laggers in the California Vowel Shift," Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Texas, Austin, February 2000
• " 'Emotional Intelligence and Interactional Intelligence: The Sociolinguistic Competence of Nerds," Grinnell College Alumni Scholars Lecture Series, March 1999
• " 'Why Be Normal?': Language and Empowerment among Teenage Nerd Girls," California State University, Chico, sponsored by the Department of English and the Program for Multicultural and Women's Studies, April 1997
• "The Discursive Construction of White Identities Through African American Vernacular English," New Scholar Speaker Series, University of California, Los Angeles, sponsored by the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture, Jan. 1997

Conference Presentations

• " 'You Ain't White': (In)Authenticating Masculinity through Dialect Crossing in Hollywood Film," Fifth Meeting of the International Gender and Language Association, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, July 2008
• "Succeeding in Science: Interaction and Identity among High-Achieving Female Science Majors," Fifth Meeting of the International Gender and Language Association, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, July 2008 (with Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, and Elena Skapoulli)
• "From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang," Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Amsterdam, April 2008
• " 'That's a Physics Attitude': Ideologies of Interdisciplinarity in Science Students' Interactions," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2007 (with Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, and Elena Skapoulli)
• " 'What Do You Call an Eigensheep?': Formulaic Jokes as Scientific Knowledge Displays among Undergraduates," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2007 (with Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, and Elena Skapoulli)
• "Interviews and Interaction as Sociolinguistic Data," Workshop on Ethnographic Methods in Sociocultural Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America Institute, Stanford University, July 2007
• "Becoming Latino through Language: Americanization and Its Limits in a Migrant Classroom," Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA, April 2007
• "For the Record: Ethnic Self-Classification and Ethnographic Meaning in Sociolinguistic Interviews," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 2006
• "New Ways of Analyzing the Sociolinguistic Interview in Sociocultural Linguistics," Annual Meeting of the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Ohio State University, Nov. 2006
• "All of the Above: From Paradigms to Coalitions in Sociocultural Linguistics," Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Limerick, Ireland, July 2006 (with Kira Hall)
• "Transcription and Identity: Dilemmas in the Written Representation of Speech and Speakers," Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM, Jan. 2006 (invited symposium)
• "Captured on Tape: Professional Hearing and Transcriptional Coercion in the Criminal Justice System," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Dec. 2005 (invited session)
• "Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California," Annual Meeting of the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, New York University, Oct. 2005 (with Nancy Bermudez, Lisa Edwards, Victor Fung, and Rosalva Vargas; poster presentation)
• "Variation in Transcription," Transcribing Now: Means and Meanings in the Representation of Spoken Interaction, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2005
• "The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as European American Youth Slang," Annual Meeting of the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Oct. 2004
• "Language Unsexed: Asexuality in Discourse and Culture," Third International Gender and Language Association Conference, Ithaca, NY, June 2004
• "Styles and Stereotypes: The Linguistic Negotiation of Identity among Laotian American Youth," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. 2003
• "Intertextuality in Outer Space: Accent Performance and Identity in Science Fiction Role-Playing Games," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Nov. 2002 (invited session)
• " 'Sexy Linguistics' and the Loss of Identity: The Limits of Desire in Language and Sexuality Research," Second International Gender and Language Association Conference, Lancaster, April 2002 (with Kira Hall)
• "Slang and Social Identity in a California High School," Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Vancouver, March 2000
• "Grrrl Geeks on the Internet: Discourses of Feminism and Identity," Second Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Oct. 1999
• "Seeing Diversity through Sociolinguistics," Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, March 1999
• "Standard English as Subversion: Language and Social Division in a U.S. High School," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Dec. 1998 (invited session)
• "Social Categories and Local Identities in the California Vowel Shift," Annual Meeting of the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, University of Georgia, Athens, Oct. 1998
• "'You da Man': Narrating the Racial Other in the Production of White Masculinity," Sixth International Pragmatics Conference, Reims, July 1998
• "Hooked on Ebonics: Cross-Racial Language Use and Sociolinguistic Ideology," Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Seattle, March 1998
• "'Why Be Normal?': Language and Opposition in Nerd Girls' Communities of Practice," Sixth International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Ottawa, May 1997
• "Signifying Nothing: White Identities through Black English in an Urban High School," Annual Meeting of the California American Studies Association, Berkeley, April 1997
• "Beyond Covert Prestige: Gender and Identity Among White Users of AAVE," Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, Jan. 1997
• "Fluency and Fluidity in White Teenagers' Use of African American Vernacular English," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Nov. 1996
• "Social Variation and Ideological Unity among White Users of AAVE," Annual Meeting of the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Oct. 1996
• "Marking Black: The Construction of White Identities through African American Vernacular English," Conference of the Georgetown Linguistics Society, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1996
• "Geek the Girl: Language, Femininity, and Female Nerds," Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley, April 1996
• "The Politics of Transcription," Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago, March 1996
• "Wiggers and Milkchickens: European American Speakers of African American Vernacular English," Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, Dec. 1995
• "Crossing the Border: White Speakers of African American Vernacular English," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1995
• "From Mulatta to Mestiza: Passing and the Linguistic Reshaping of Ethnic Identity," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, Nov. 1994
• "The Powers That Buy: Women's Agency in the Discourse of the Shopping Channel," Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley, April 1994
• "The Creation of Community in the Linguistic Marketplace: Talk and Teleshopping," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1993
• "Theorizing African American Women's Speech," Linguistic Society of America Conference on Language and Gender, Columbus, Ohio, July 1993
• "Language in Evidence: The Pragmatics of Translation in the Courtroom," First Annual Symposium about Language and Society--Austin, University of Texas, April 1993
• "The Construction of African American English in the News," Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics, March 1993
• "The Mixed Discourse Genre as a Social Resource for Participants," 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, Feb. 1993

Panel Discussant Presentations

• Discussant, "Slang in Sociopolitical Context," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2007
• Discussant, "Studying Conversation and the Autonomic Nervous System: Evidence from Speech Breathing" by Norma Mendoza-Denton, Language and the Body in a Material World: Second Santa Barbara Symposium on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2007
• Discussant, "Youth Language at the Intersection: Globalization, Transnationalism, Identity," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2006
• Discussant, "Bilingualism and Identity in Interaction," Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Limerick, Ireland, July 2006 (with Kira Hall)
• Discussant, "Identities, Mistaken and Secret: The Semiotics of 'Identity' in Time and Space," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Dec. 2005
• Discussant, "The Social Meanings of Styling in Quoting Practices," Meeting of the International Association for Applied Linguistics/American Association for Applied Linguistics, Madison, WI, July 2005
• Discussant, "The Construction of Japanese Women's Language: A Historical Perspective," Ninth International Pragmatics Conference, Riva del Garda, July 2005
• Discussant, "Crossing Talk: Transgressing Gendered Borders through Linguistic Practices," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. 2003
• Discussant, "Language and Masculinities," Eighth International Pragmatics Conference, Toronto, July 2003
• Discussant, "Asian American Identities," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Nov. 2002
• Discussant, "Texas Discourse," Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Pasadena, Oct. 2002
• Discussant, "Performance and Evaluation of Social Categories Among Youth in Post-Industrial Societies," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 2000
• Discussant, "The Relevance of Critique in Discourse Analysis," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. 1999 (invited session)
• Discussant, "Language Matters in Anthropology: A Lexicon for the Millennium," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Dec. 1998 (invited session)
• Discussant, "Japanese Speaking Choices: Real Diversity Meets the Ideology of Homogeneity," Sixth International Pragmatics Conference, Reims, July 1998

Roundtable Discussions

• Participant, Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis Roundtable, Fifth Meeting of the International Gender and Language Association, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, July 2008
• Participant, "Cultural Studies and Linguistics and Literary Studies," South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, Nov. 1998
• Participant, "Negotiating Boundaries," Interdisciplinary Conference on Language and Literature, Texas A&M University, Sept. 1998

Other Presentations

• "Using Social Networking to Improve Sampling, Data Collection, and Diffusion," Joint Annual Meeting, Division of Human Resource Development, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, June 2008 (with Karen Peterson)
• "Succeeding in Science: Interaction and Identity among High-Achieving Female Science Majors," Women in Science and Engineering Speaker Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2008 (with Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, and Elena Skapoulli)
• " 'What Do You Call an Eigensheep?': Formulaic Jokes as Knowledge Displays among Undergraduate Math and Science Students," Hypatian Seminar for Women in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2008 (with Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, and Elena Skapoulli)
• " 'That's a Physics Attitude': Ideologies of Interdisciplinarity in Science Students' Interactions," Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Research Focus Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 2008 (with Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, and Elena Skapoulli)
• " 'What Do You Call an Eigensheep?': Formulaic Jokes as Scientific Knowledge Displays among Undergraduates," Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Research Focus Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 2008 (with Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, and Elena Skapoulli)
• "Language and Sexuality," Department of Linguistics, Linguistics 151: Language and Gender, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 2007
• Ethnographic Methods in Sociocultural Linguistics," Workshop, Conference on Language and Social Practice, University of Colorado, Oct. 2007
• "¿Qué Onda, Güey?: Slang, Gender, and Latino Migrant Youth Styles," Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2007
• "Guey: Slang, Affiliation, and Masculinity among Latino Migrant Teenagers," Half Moon Bay Style Collective, Retreat on Linguistic Style, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, June 2006
• "Transcription and Identity: Dilemmas in the Written Representation of Speech and Speakers," Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, Jan. 2006
• "Innovative Quotative Markers and Youth Identities in Interaction," Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Research Focus Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2005
• "Gender, Sexuality, and Insult Terms," Francisco Torres Residential Life Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 2005
• "Shop Talk: Class, Consumption, and Discourse among California Youth," Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 2004
• "Accent Performance as Identity Production: Language Representation in Play," Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2003
• "Transcription as Linguistic Representation: Issues of Theory, Method, and Politics," Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Research Focus Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2003
• "Geek Feminism: The Online Emergence of a New Feminist Discourse," Women's Resource Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 2003
• "Geek Feminism," Department of Linguistics, Language and Gender in Cultural Perspective, University of Colorado, February 2002
• "Reflecting on Transcription: Theory, Method, and Politics," Workshop, Urban Sociolinguistics Group, New York University, Nov. 2000
• "Language and Whiteness," Department of Linguistics, Style, Language, and Ideology Collective, Stanford University, April 2000
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