FYIs

Congrats to Professor Mona Hadler who co-edited, Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties with Kalliopi Minioudaki (Bloomsbury, 2022). Woman's Art Journal touted it as a "marvelous snapshot of the global sixties." See the review here.

Kudos to alum Arnaud Gerspacher (Ph.D. 2017), who has a new article out in the journal October.  In Zoonotic Undemocracy (2022:181, 61-92),  Gerspacher "argues for the urgency of re-thinking politics from a posthumanist perspective, one that considers the impact of environmental harm caused by the uses of nonhuman animals."  He examines a film by Wilson Coutinho and the work of conceptual artist Cildo Meireles, the subject of Coutinho's film. Already in the 1970s, they addressed environmental issues  - global warming, biodiversity loss, racist food politics, and zoonotic illnesses. Gerspacher analyzes the role of nonhuman animals in the context of environmental politics in Brazil, and beyond.

Ilaria Porru presented her paper titled, ‘Does Italian dominance affect Sardinian phonology? A case study of Southern Campidanese’ at International conference on bilingualism with local languages: Language Attitudes and Bi(dia)lectal Competence, LABiC at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. 

Emmanuel Bawa's co-authored paper titled, "Language Contact in the Vocalic Systems of Ekhwa and Hausa" was accepted for a poster presentation at 97th Annual meeting of LSA at Denver, Colorado January 5-8th. (w/ Prof. Rachel Burdin (UNH) and Taylor Cassiani (UNH)

Prof. Kyle Gorman is the recipient of a 3-year Collaborative NSF Grant titled: Deconstructing Word likeness Judgments with collaborators Karthik Durvasula, Michigan State and Jimin Kahng, U. Mississippi. See database of the project’s full description.

Prof. Sam Al Khatib & Dr. Zhuo Chen presented talks at Sinn und Bedeutung 27 held by Charles University in Prague September 14 -16," 2022:

Prof. Alxatib's talk title: Necessary free choice and its theoretical significance.
Dr. Zhuo Chen (GC PhD 2021; JSTOR Labs) talk title: Against a uniform even approach to NPI any.

Emeritus Prof. Ricardo Otheguy, Dr. Naomi Shin (GC PhD 2007) & Daniel Erker (GC MA 2005) published a chapter titled "On the idiolectal nature of lexical and phonological contact: Spaniards, Nahuas and Yorubas in the New World" (pp. 370-403). In Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact, edited by Salikoko Mufwene and Anna María Escober (June, 2022).

Dr. Gita Martohardjono was awarded a $1.148M grant as the Multilingual Literacy SIFE Screener. The Multilingual Literacy SIFE Screener (MLS) is an online, semi-adaptive suite of assessments designed to provide educators in New York State with information about the home-language literacy and math skills of Students with Interrupted/Inconsistent Formal Education (SIFE).

The Linguistics Program pleased to announce that a volume co-edited by May Ahmar (current PhD student), Wafa Bahri (2019 Alum), and Cece Cutler has just been published on Palgrave. ​The title is "Digital Orality" Vernacular Writing in Online Spaces. See here:  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-10433-6 

May's chapter is titled: Orality and Identity in the Writing Practices of Politicians, Celebrities, and Activists on Lebanese Twitter
Wafa's chapter is titled: Ettounsi and Tamazight Writing on Facebook: Oral Vernaculars or New Literacies
Cece's chapter is titled: Orality, Alignment, and Stance in YouTube Comments About the New York City Accent​​

Dr. Suzanne van der Feest &  Evgeniya Maryutina (GC Ling. 2021 MA), Valerie Shafer, et al. will present their work, “Perceptual and acoustic correlates of central vowels in Russian-English and Spanish-English bilingual children: The role of input frequency” at the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development in November.