It was a delight to start the Fall semester with a kick-off meeting focused on the English Department’s contributions to undergraduate education at UW-Madison. Over sixty faculty and staff shared examples of teaching innovations and …
Teaching
Linguistics of Sustainability
I received funding from the Hessen Incentive Grant to develop a COIL (collaborative online international learning) course on the Linguistics of Sustainability with Professor Holden Härtl at the University of Kassel. Hessen is the German …
It doesn’t have to be a research paper!
I am not a big fan of ending undergraduate (or mixed undergrad/grad) classes with a research paper that is only read by me. So, in my ‘English Grammar in Use’ class, we end with a …
What happens in the classroom doesn’t stay in the classroom
I am not terribly active on LinkedIn, but I recently posted something that seems to have resonated with a lot of people, so I am repeating it here:
It’s graduate program application season!
If you know someone interested in a small but cohesive Ph.D. program in English Linguistics with faculty who work well together and are known to value mentorship and interdisciplinarity, share our program flyer with them. …
Becoming a class
As I walked into my classes yesterday (first classes of the new semester), the room was very quiet. Nobody was talking to anyone else. Most students were checking their phones. At the end of the …
New semester, new syllabi
New semester, new syllabi: This semester I’ll be teaching two classes I have taught many times before, an introduction to they study of English syntax and a more advanced course, introducing students to working with …
Another Grammar Badgers Student Project
Today, just in time for the beginning of the new semester, I updated the Grammar Badgers website with student projects from the fall, including a survey-based one, created by Katalina, Carly, Maggie, Haru, and Naamon. …
Grammar Badgers Student Projects
It’s the time of the semester when students present their projects. Most of my classes have an engagement component — students will create a podcast of video geared towards the general public. We call this …
PhD in English Language and Linguistics
It’s grad school application season! Our department offers a PhD in English with tracks in Composition & Rhetoric, Literary Studies, and English Language and Linguistics. We are also home to a highly ranked MFA program …
Back to school!
Back to school! It’s never easy to jump into a new semester after a year-long leave, but it’s made easy for me because I get to teach two new courses related to my research. English …
Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!
Congratulations to Dr. Difei (Lynn) Zhang, who defended her dissertation (“Flipping those pages, swiping that screen: a corpus-based analysis of the digital transformation of the news register”) today! In her dissertation Dr. Zhang investigated the …
Congrats, Dr. Kim!
Congratulations to Dr. Minhee Kim, who successfully defended her dissertation Patterns of Linguistic Variation in Research Articles: The Role of Methodology on April 28, 2021. Based on 120 research articles from different disciplines she …
A big thank-you to our graduate students
The other day, as I was rearranging the chairs in our conference room for a meeting with our graduate students, I saw a plaque with my name and the year 2017 engraved on the wall. …
“Grammar Badgers” in the news
Our Grammar Badgers project made it to the UW news today: Grammar Badgers spread language wisdom
“Bad Grammar” student symposium
ELL graduate students in my “Bad Grammar” seminar presented their research (9 posters and 5 talks) in an end-of-term symposium on April 27. Thanks to everyone who came and helped making the day a success!