Teaching experiences

LING 3800 Language and Social Media (2026)

Linguistics 3800 is an undergraduate online course that explores how language is used and transformed on social media platforms. Students explore shifts in online sociality through the growth and spread of meme culture, consider how new media and technology affords new communities, communicative roles, and forms of politics. Through shared discussions and guided ethnography projects, students gain critical awareness and understanding of issues of language, identity and power in digital spaces.

ANTH/LING 4800 Language and Culture (2025; 2026)

Anthropology/Linguistics 4800 is a cross-listed module that instructs upper division undergraduates on key concepts and topics in linguistic anthropology and facilitates their approach to language as a central form of action through which social, cultural, and political relations are constituted. This is a 45-student seminar that focuses on both theoretical and methodological approaches in the field, with the aim to prepare students for more advanced graduate classes. Students participate in both critical discussion and small group projects; this course’s specific focus is on online communities, and students complete a scaffolded online ethnography project for the semester.

WRTG 1150 First-Year Writing and Rhetoric
5 academic semesters (2019-2024)

Writing 1150 is a writing course of 19 students per class, structured to guide students in developing skills and rhetorical knowledge required as they transition from high school to college classes. In my classes, I expose students to various styles of academic arguments, as well as design their writing assignments in ways that hone their skills in drafting, revising, and reviewing as part of the writing process. Students are also encouraged to reflect on the social benefits and costs of writing clear, “standard American English” prose.

LING 1000 Language in U.S. Society
6 academic semesters (2015 – 2019)

Linguistics 1000 is a large lecture class of about 100 students per section, structured to help students gain a deeper understanding of linguistic diversity in the United States and beyond, and examines issues central to the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. In the course of the semester, students work on scaffolded writing assignments that guides them through the steps of qualitative sociolinguistics research: data collection, analysis, and reporting.

LING 3545 World Language Policies
3 academic semesters (Spring 2016, 2017 and 2018)

Linguistics 3545 is an upper division linguistics course that provides an introduction to language rights, language policies, and language ideology from both national/international and local/global perspectives. This 35-student course attracts students from majors beyond linguistics that are interested in language politics, including political science, economics, sociology, and communication studies. Students explore motivations and consequences of language policy-making as well as analyze a number of case studies of historical and current language policy implementation through different theoretical frameworks.

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LING 2400 Language and Gender
1 academic semester (2018)

LING 1000 Language in U.S. Society
2 academic semesters (2014)

LING 3100 Language Sound Structures
Fall 2013

As a teaching assistant, I have supported both faculty and advanced PhD student-instructors in running recitations and laboratory sessions for students. In addition to planning and running my own recitations/tutorials, I grade and create exams and term paper assignments in collaboration with the main instructor of record.

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