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Curriculum Vitae
Anna Marie Trester
Georgetown University Department of Linguistics
1437 37th St NW, Poulton Hall #229 Washington, DC 20057
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Tel: (202) 687-7117
Educational Background
Georgetown University. Ph.D., Department of Linguistics March 31, 2008
Dissertation title: Improvising onstage and off: Combining variationist, discourse, and ethnographic approaches to style. Committee: Natalie Schilling (chair), Deborah Schiffrin, Heidi Hamilton
New York University. M.A., Department of Linguistics, Sociolinguistics May 31, 2002
University of Arizona. B.A., Department of English, British Literature Dec 31, 1995
Academic Appointments
Georgetown University Department of Linguistics Jan 2008 – present
Co-Director: MA in Language and Communication (MLC) Program
· Serve as academic advisor for approximately twenty five current graduate students
· Conduct research about applied sociolinguistics
· Develop resource materials about professional applications of linguistics
· Organize and facilitate approximately twenty professional development events and activities (workshops, brownbag and panel discussions) per year
· Thesis mentorship, support, and structural and content editing
· Publicly represent the department and program at conferences and recruiting events
Publications
Peer-reviewed Academic Journal Submissions
In preparation. Prankster stories: Narrative and the linguistic construction of group values.
In preparation. The problem of principal and the ambiguity of authorship. (co-authored with Margaret Toye). To Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI).
2012. Framing entextualization: Intertextuality as an interactional (improvisational) resource. Language in Society. 41(2).
2009. Discourse marker "oh" as a means for realizing the identity potential of constructed dialogue in interaction. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 13 (2) 147 – 168.
2009. A linguist weighs in: The language of Diversity. Intercultural Management Quarterly. 10(2).
2003. Along the spectrum of dissent (co-authored with George Laufenburg). Visual Communication. London: SAGE Publications. 2 (3) 331-340.
2003. Bienvenidos a Costa Rica, la tierra de la pura vida: A study of the expression “pura vida” in the Spanish of Costa Rica. Selected Proceedings of the First Conference on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Lotfi Sayahi, Ed. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 61-69.
Academic Books
In preparation. Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, Proceedings from GURT 2011. Georgetown University Press. Co-Edited with Deborah Tannen.
Book Chapters
In press. Facework on Facebook (co-authored with Laura West). Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, Proceedings from GURT 2011. Georgetown University Press.
In press. Framing Silence as Dissent: Performance in a Quaker Vigil for Peace. The Language of War and Peace. Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics.
2012. Performing style: Improvisation and the linguistic (re)production of cultural knowledge. Style-Shifting in Public. New perspectives on stylistic variation. Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa (eds.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2011. Do you speak presidential? Reprinted in Exploring Language, thirteenth edition. Longman.
Book Reviews
2011. Review of: Teachers Act Up! Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theater by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Marianna Souto-Manning. Vol 42, Issue 1, start page 81
2011. Review of: The Intercultural Dymanics of Multcultural Working. Eds. Manuela Guilherme, Evelyne Glaser, María del Carmen Méndez-García. Linguist List Issue 22 (1971).
2009 Review of: Scollon, Ron and Suzanne Wong-Scollon. 2001. Intercultural Communication for eVox (Georgetown University graduate students’ working papers in Sociolinguistics)
Academic Presentations
Invited Presentations
Facework on Facebook: Conversations on Social Media. Workshop for GURT 2011: Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. Co-facilitator Laura West. March 10, 2011.
The language of silence: Ethnographic Research with a Quaker Vigil for Peace. Research Seminar Presentation. Statistical Research Division, U.S. Census Bureau. August 25th, 2010
Intertextuality and the performance of group identity. Invited speaker: Bangor University, Department of Linguistics Research Seminars. April 9, 2008. Bangor, Gwynedd, United Kingdom.
Refereed Conference Presentations
Ethnography and Narrative Analysis: Tools for Vocation Discernment. Presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Conference. Nov 16th – Nov 20th 2011. Montreal, QC.
Talking business, taking charge: Communicative and interactional norms in the MBA classroom. Presented with Kathryn McIntyre at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 40. Oct 27th – Oct 30th 2011. Washington, DC.
Second dialects and shifting linguistic identities: British women in the United States. Presented with Alison Mackey, Kaitlyn Tagarelli and Sheena Shah at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 40. Oct 27th – Oct 30th 2011. Washington, DC.
Silence as performance - Visual elements of a Quaker vigil for peace. Presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS18). Sept 1 – 5, 2010. Southampton, UK.
The Framing of Silence in a Quaker Vigil for Peace. Presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference. Dec 2– 6, 2009. Philadelphia, PA.
Intertextuality and the performance of group identity. Presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS17). April 3-5, 2008. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The role of discourse marker “oh” in interpreting constructed dialogue as identity work. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 36). October 11-13, 2007. Philadelphia, PA.
Investigating Language in Performance. Panel organizer and chair. International Pragmatics Association Conference (IPrA.) July 8- 13, 2007. Goteborg, Sweden.
Oh-prefacing in quotatives: implications for speaker stance, alignment, and style. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Conference (LSA). January 4- 7, 2007. Anaheim, California.
Framing Performance: Style and the Construction of Identity in Improv. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 35). November 9 - 12, 2006. Columbus, Ohio.
Improvised performances and the linguistic (re)production of cultural knowledge. Workshop on dialects, standards, and public performance. Organizer: Natalie Schilling-Estes. Discussant: Nikolas Coupland. Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS16). July 6 – 8, 2006. Limerick, Ireland.
Intertextuality and the production of cultural meaning in improv performances. Presented at American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). June 17 - 20, 2006. Montreal, Canada.
Making it up as you go along: The construction of identity in improv performances. Presented at Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS) 2005. Feb 18 - 20, 2005. Washington, D.C.
Dialect stylization in improv: What performance data can tell us about authenticity. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 33). Sept 30 - Oct 3, 2004. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Intertextual Humor in Improv Games. Presented at the International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 16). June 14 - 18, 2004. Dijon, France.
“Pura Vida” as a Discourse Marker in the Spanish of Costa Rica. Poster presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS15), April 1 – 5, 2004. Newcastle, England.
Using Silence to be Heard: A Nexus Analysis of a Peace Vigil. Presented at the American Anthropological Association Conference (AAA). Nov 19 - 23, 2003. Chicago, Illinois.
Dialect Loss in Smith Island English: A look at Non-Standard Concord. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 32). October 9 – 12, 2003. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Teaching Experience
Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
LING 495, Ethnography of Communication (undergraduate / graduate): Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
LING 487, MLC Professionalization seminar (graduate): Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
LING 500, Thesis writing seminar (co-taught with Professor Donna Lardiere): Spring 2009
LING 383: Language and Social Life: Media Contexts (undergraduate / graduate) Summer 2010
LING 333: Cross-Cultural Communication (undergraduate) Summer 2011
LING 283, Language and Social Life (undergraduate): Summer 2009, Fall 2007
LING 355, Language in the USA (undergraduate / graduate): Spring 2007, Spring 2006
LING 001, Introduction to Language (undergraduate): Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
Department of Communication Studies, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
COMM 380, Language in Social Contexts (undergraduate): Spring 2008 (online): Summer 2007
Department of English, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
ENGL 110, Language Foundation (undergraduate): Spring 2006, Fall 2005
Theses Supervised
Fall 2011 – Spring 2012. Katherine Hilton. M.A. Thesis
“I mean, he’s like really into me:” Using Like to Mitigate Face-threatening Acts.
Fall 2009. Zach Zaynor, Master’s Research Paper (co-directed with Professor Deborah Schiffrin) The role of gaze structure in the interactional norms of the United States Senate.
Spring 2009. Sehar Azad, M.A. Thesis (co-directed with Professor Natalie Schilling-Estes)
Lights, Camera, Accent: Examining Dialect Performance in Recent Children’s Animated Films.
Spring 2009. Alison Goodrich, Senior Honor’s Thesis
Spit Dat: An ethnographic study of Language and Community Involvement at the Open Mic
Spring 2009. Anissa Sorokin. M.A. Thesis (co-directed with Professor Deborah Schiffrin)
Constructing Dialogue, Constructing Identities: Reported Speech and Mixed Heritage Identity Construction in “Half and Half”
Spring 2008. Jennifer Kovach, Senior Honor’s Thesis
Constructing Gender and Ethnicity in Stand-up Comedy Routines
Professional Experience
2003 – 2005 Research Intern: Mac Neil/Lehrer Productions
Advised production team on current issues and terminology in sociolinguistics. Developed educational materials and interactive activities for the companion website to the film Do You Speak American?
Researched current topics in sociolinguistics including: language style, dialect features of US varieties of English, language attitudes, and linguistic discrimination.
2004 – 2005 Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL): Research Intern
Developed educational resources for CAL contributions to Do You Speak American?
Served as project liaison between CAL and web development team at MacNeil/Lehrer.
2002 – 2003 Georgetown University: Research Assistant, Linguistics Department
Transcribed, coded, and analyzed Holocaust testimonies for Professor Deborah Schiffrin
Service Activities
Reviewing for Professional Journals:
Blackwell Linguistics and Language Compass
eVox (graduate students’ working papers in Sociolinguistics)
Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
Text and Talk
Reviewing for Academic Conferences:
American Anthropological Association (AAA), Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) submissions, 2010
2010 Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS) Graduate Student Conference
2009 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2010, Atlanta
Reviewing for Professional Book Series
2006 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: Defining, Documenting, Developing (Proceedings of GURT 2006), Georgetown University Press.
Conference / Workshop Organization:
Co-organizer: Georgetown University Roundtable (GURT) 2011 March 2011
Conference Assistant: Georgetown University Roundtable (GURT) 2008 March 2008
Co-chair: Georgetown Linguistics Society 2005 Conference. March 2005
· Graduate student-organized conference with 150 participants.
Organizer: Georgetown University Graduate Student Research Forum May 2003
· Two-day poster session featuring graduate student research University-wide.
Community Outreach and Media Appearances
WGBH Boston, Invited radio appearance January 3, 2012
Smithsonian Institution, Resident Associate Lecture Series Nov 22, 2008
Seminar Title: Everyday Language: How We Talk to Each Other and Why it Matters
8 hour seminar given with Deborah Schiffrin about everyday relevance of linguistics
· how and why stories are told (and retold) with friends, families, and co-workers
· why conversation is injected with words like oh, well, like, you know, and I mean
· how language is used to ask questions, complain, apologize, and threaten
· why we have different regional varieties and how language continues to change and develop
· how language works with images to create visual meanings in media discourse
Washington Times, Interviewed by Amanda DeBard for article: Minister Crusades for Clean Language July 28th, 2008
Monitor on Psychology, Interviewed by Sadie Dingfelder for article: The formula for funny, June 2006 (37) 6
Service to Professional Organizations
Upcoming: Invited workshop
Intercultural Management Institute, Workshop Designer and Facilitator March 12, 2012
Title: Facework on Facebook
90 minute interactive workshop exploring the linguistic and interactional norms of this social networking site:
· Focus on analytical techniques of facework and intertextuality
Intercultural Management Institute, Workshop Designer and Facilitator March 12, 2010
Title: Interactional Sociolinguistics: and Visual Analysis in Cross-Cultural Training
90 minute interactive workshop about linguistics for cross-cultural trainers:
· Focus on analytical techniques of ethnography and visual semiotics
Intercultural Management Institute, Workshop Designer and Facilitator March 13, 2009
Title: Interactional Sociolinguistics: Tools for Analyzing Language and Communication in Cross-Cultural Training
90 minute interactive workshop about linguistics for cross-cultural trainers:
· Exposing contextualization cues that underlie everyday conversational interaction
· Illustrating how Speech Act Theory provides insight into directness / indirectness
· Underlying assumptions about language and how these embed worldview
Business Professional Women’s Association National Employer Summit June 20, 2008
Invited panelist: The Language of Diversity
· Participated with industry experts from NY Times, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Council on Independent Living, and the US military analyzing the significance and impact on changes in terminology in diversity training circles.
University and College Level Service
Faculty Leader for “Got English?” Language, Literature and Ebonics discussion as part of Sigma TD Days, Howard University March 24th 2006
Fellowships Grants and Awards
Georgetown University Graduate School Assistantship Award 2002 – 2007
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Award 2002 – 2007
Tinker Foundation Fieldwork Grant Summer 2001
New York University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
· 3 months field research in Costa Rica
Rotary Club Ambassadorial Scholarship January 1996 – Dec 1996
· scholarship for an academic year of study in Costa Rica
· gave educational cultural presentations at Rotary clubs throughout Costa Rica about American culture and in the United States about Costa Rican culture
Languages
Conversational and written proficiency in Spanish
Working knowledge of French
Some introductory study of American Sign Language (ASL)
Memberships
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Society for Intercultural Training, Education, and Research (SIETAR)