News

  • August–December 2021

    I am teaching Semantics & Pragmatics and The Structure of Words at the College of Staten Island.

  • June 2021

    I presented my paper, “Phonesthetics and the etymologies of blood and bone,” during the general assembly of the 2021 ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English) conference on Friday, June 4th.

  • May 2021

    My paper, “Phonesthetics and the etymologies of blood and bone,” appeared in the May 2021 issue of English Language & Linguistics. (It was published in ELL online in March of 2020.)

  • March 2021

    My paper, “Burning Feathers: A Hint at Hysteria in a Connecticut Witchcraft Case,” has been published in Folklore. Free download here.

  • January–May 2021

    I am teaching Introduction to Linguistics and Sociology of Language at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

  • December 2020

    My paper, “Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) (United States and Canada) – Language Snapshot,” has been published in Language Documentation & Description. Read it here.

    My submission won the Greenbelt Conservation Corps’ Call to Artists Logo Design Contest! I made a few suggested updates, and my design will serve as the logo for Staten Island’s new Greenbelt Conservation Corps. Article here.

  • October 2020

    My paper, “A Grove of Folk Art on Staten Island: Documenting the Carvings of W. Dixon,” has been published in Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore. Download it here.

    My paper, “Language Snapshot: Kanien’kéha (Mohawk),” has been accepted for publication in Language Documentation & Description.

    I have two pieces, “The Turnip” and “The Pinecone,” in this year’s Interactive Fiction Competition, IFComp 2020.

  • August 2020

    I successfully defended my dissertation, “360º Video and Language Documentation: Towards a Corpus of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk)”!

  • August–December 2020

    I am teaching Introduction to Linguistics and History of English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

  • June 2020

    My paper, “A Grove of Folk Art on Staten Island: Documenting the Carvings of W. Dixon,” has been accepted for publication in Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore.