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Lauren M. Squires

Lsquires@umich.edu

 

2006-present    PhD     Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2006                MA     Linguistics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

2003                BA      Philosophy; Public Communication, American University, Washington, DC

                                             Summa cum laude, University Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

2007 (summer)            Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Stanford, CA

2001 (fall)                  American University of Rome, Rome, Italy

2001 (summer)            University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

 

Sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; computer-mediated discourse; language and the internet; language ideologies; linguistic variation in spoken and written language; text-based interaction; metalanguage and folk linguistics; language attitudes; social networking websites; style and identity; genre; discourse analysis; semiotics; (multi)modality.

 

University of Michigan

2008.  Graduate Student Instructor: Language and the Mass Media (grader)

                       Prof. Robin Queen

                       Dept. of Linguistics

 

2007.  Graduate Student Instructor: Language and Discrimination (sections)

                       Prof. Robin Queen

                       Dept. of Linguistics

 

University of Virginia

2005.  Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Child Psychology (sections)

                       Prof. John Bonvillian

                       Dept. of Psychology

 

2005.  Graduate Teaching Assistant: English for Academic Purposes Program

                       Prof. Catherine Baritaud/Instructor Hugh Crumley

                       Center for American English Language and Culture

 

2005.  Grading Assistant: Jewish Languages and Communities (grader)

                       Prof. Daniel Lefkowitz

                       Dept. of Anthropology

 

2004 (fall) and 2005 (summer).  Instructor: ESL Advanced Conversation

                       Center for American English Language and Culture

 

2008.  Keeping it offline: The metadiscursive erasure of Standard English from the internet. Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, April 3-5, Amsterdam, NL.

 

2007.  On Netspeak's destruction of English: locating language ideologies in online metadiscourse. Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play! Oct. 18-21, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

 

2007.  People who type "like dis all da time": exploring language ideologies and linguistic artifacts through meta-Netspeak. Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture, Language, and Social Practice, Oct. 5-7, University of Colorado at Boulder.

 

2006.  Standards of type: Punctuation as a sociolinguistic variable in CMD (with Joshua Raclaw). New Ways of Analyzing Variation 35, Nov. 9-12, Columbus, OH.

 

2005.  Whats the use of apostrophes? Gender difference and linguistic variation in instant messaging. Internet Research 6.0: Generations, Oct. 6-9, Chicago, IL.

 

2003.  College students in multimedia relationships: Choosing, using, and fusing communication technologies. Internet Research 4.0: Broadening the Band, Oct. 16-19, Toronto,

Ontario, Canada.

 

2008.  Guest lecture, Introduction to Language (instructor Kevin McGowan), "Language and Media," June 4, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

 

2007.  People who type "like dis all da time": exploring language ideologies and linguistic artifacts through meta-Netspeak. Sociodiscourse Group, Sept. 29, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

 

2007.  Media and sociolinguistics. Sociodiscourse Group, Feb. 16, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

 

2005.  Speaking in text (: Socio/linguistic issues in computer-mediated discourse. Linguistic Anthropology Seminar, University of Virginia, Sept. 16, Charlottesville, VA.

 

2005.  Guest lecture, Language in the New Millennium Honors Colloquium, Oct. 19, American University, Washington, DC.

 

2007.  Whats the use of apostrophes? Gender difference and linguistic variation in instant messaging.  American University TESOL Working Papers 4. [http://www.american.edu/tesol/CMCSquiresFinal.pdf]

 

2005.  Tethered or mobile? Use of away messages in instant messaging by American college students (with Naomi Baron, Sara Tench, & Marshall Thompson). In Rich Ling & Per Pedersen (Eds.). Mobile Communications: Re-negotiation of the social sphere, 293-311. London: Springer.

 

2003.  College students in multimedia relationships: Choosing, using, and fusing communication technologies.  American University TESOL Working Papers 2. [http://www.american.edu/tesol/wpsquires.pdf]

 

2003.  Paid research assistant to Professor Naomi S. Baron, Summer, American University.

Co-chair, University of Michigan Linguistics Department Colloquium Series, 2007-2008.

 

Panel organizer, "Mediating Play: Perspectives on playful language in online discourse." Panel for Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play!, Oct 18-21, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

 

Member of planning group, Graduate Literacy Studies interdisciplinary conference, to be held at The Ohio State University, Spring 2009.

Article Reviewer, Journal of English Linguistics

Article Reviewer, New Media and Society

Abstract Reviewer, Association of Internet Researchers annual conference

Co-founder, administrator, blogger, Sociolinguistics and CMC [http://sociocmc.blogspot.com]

Blogger, polyglot conspiracy [http://polyglotconspiracy.net]

Grievance Committee Chair, Graduate Employees' Organization, University of Michigan, 2007-

Departmental Steward, Graduate Employees' Organization, University of Michigan, 2006-07

Social Committee Member, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan 2006-07

Rackham Research Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2007

First-year fellowship, Linguistics Department, University of Michigan, 2006-07

Linguistics Department Block Grant, University of Michigan, Nov 2006 (conference travel)

Huskey Travel Grant, University of Virginia, Oct 2005

Presidential Scholarship, American University, 1999-2003

Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta Chapter, inducted spring 2002

Harold J. and Ruth Pearson Prize in Philosophy, American University, May 2003

GLBTA Resource Center Academic Award, American University, May 2003

Outstanding Scholarship at the Undergraduate Level, American University, May 2003

Golden Key International Honor Society

 

Interviewed for "Me late little meeting sorry sorry," United Press International, June 27, 2006. [http://www.physorg.com/news70640782.html]

Interviewed for "MySpace...or is it?" WCAV, May 2, 2006 [http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/2735011.html]

 

American Anthropological Association, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Association of Internet Researchers

Linguistic Society of America

 

2005-2006.  Tap Dance Instructor: Charlottesville, VA

2000-2006.  Dancer: Tappening, Washington, DC

2003-2004.  AmeriCorps*VISTA, ReadBoston, Boston, MA

2002-2003.  Communications Intern, Hager Sharp, Inc., Washington, DC

2002.   Press Intern, Office of Senator Debbie Stabenow, Washington, DC

2001.  Editorial Intern, Heldref Publications, Washington, DC