{"id":303,"date":"2013-06-22T02:25:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T02:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2026-08-09T23:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:01:37","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><em>In my research and teaching I explore the regularity of structure (grammar) and the quirkiness of individual words. The &#8220;temper&#8221; of English verbs \u2013 the relationship between their meaning and their behavior in syntax \u2013 has been the focus of my research for a long time. I have also published on the relationship between syntax, discourse, and genre, the history of scientific writing, the grammar of persons diagnosed with dementia, and the impact of linguistic prescriptivism.<\/em><\/span> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><em>I teach classes on syntax and grammar in use and direct the student-created <a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"https:\/\/grammarbadgers.wordpress.com\/\">Grammar Badgers<\/a> project.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"https:\/\/namedrop.io\/anjawanner\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">This<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><em> is how my name is pronounced.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #bf0f0f;\"><a style=\"color: #bf0f0f;\" href=\"http:\/\/english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?page_id=115\">Research<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #bf0f0f;\"><a style=\"color: #bf0f0f;\" href=\"http:\/\/english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?page_id=8\">Teaching<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #bf0f0f;\"><a style=\"color: #bf0f0f;\" href=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?page_id=912\">Administrative Leadership<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #bf0f0f;\"><a style=\"color: #bf0f0f;\" href=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?page_id=306\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anja-Wanner-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1155\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anja-Wanner-4-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anja-Wanner-4-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anja-Wanner-4-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anja-Wanner-4-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anja-Wanner-4-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anja-Wanner-4.png 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Small Munsterlanders Fritzi (left, then seven years old) and Willy (at four months old) in 2022. I\u2019m a first generation student, native of Germany, dog person, compulsive note taker, and enthusiastic audio book listener. Here&#8216;s how my name is pronounced. I didn\u2019t plan to become a linguist (does anyone?), but when I stumbled into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1226,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-303","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}