Teaching

Teaching and advising

PreK-12 Special Education

My recent teaching for PreK-Grade 12 students include:

Social Behavior Skills
Social Communication
Socio-Emotional Learning
Dyslexia/Resource Reading
Resource Mathematics
Early Childhood Special Education

As part of my special education teaching, I also provide case management, including development of individualized education plans (IEPs) and behavior intervention plans, and support for students and families with complex needs. Much of my teaching career has focused on supporting students who have experienced interruptions, trauma, or other challenges in their formal education. I received a Teachers of Tomorrow scholarship to train as special education PreK-12 teacher, and in 2022, I received the Teacher of Promise award -- a teaching award for new teachers.

University courses

I have recently taught the following university courses:

Graduate courses

Advanced Seminar: Sociolinguistics Lab
Advanced Seminar: Language and Gender/Sexuality
Graduate Research/Independent Study

Combined graduate and undergraduate courses

Sociolinguistics
Linguistic Anthropology
Bilingualism and Contact Linguistics

Undergraduate courses

Language, Society, and the Individual
Linguistics Internship (Faculty Mentor)

Student advising

I advise postgraduate student research on sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and forensic linguistics. My advisees include:

2021.	Cristina Valega Chipoco. Peruvian rape law. (MSt Student.)
2018.	Alexandra Lawson. Queer Latinx identities in media representations of bias-motivated violence. (Research Assistant.)
2018.	Jennifer Schechter. Does Donald Trump really tawk the tawk? An accoustic analysis of Trump’s THOUGHT and BAT vowels. (Qualifying paper.)
2018.	Genevieve Franck. Children's developing narratives and styles. (Qualifying paper.)
2017.	Saima Hafeez. Performing gender and ethnolinguistic identity: a case study. (Independent Study.)

Projects I have advised in the University at Buffalo Sociolinguistics Lab include:

Genevieve Franck.	Sociophonic variation and appropriation in the speech of African~American drag queens.
Kiyono Fujinaga.	The role of language socialization in children's language development: a case study of Japanese heritage speakers.
Saima Hafeez.	Code-switching and identity in Pakistani women's rights activist discourse.
Megan Hutto.	Mea culpa: admissions of guilt and locus of control.
Alexandra Lawson.	Reflexive pronouns in personal contexts: the relationship between genre and anaphoric form in English.
Jennifer Schechter.	Bitchy, bossy, authoritative: how does sociophonic variation tell us who sounds like a boss and who sounds bitchy?
Michelle Tulloch.	You sound funny: The effect of ethnocentrism on accent perception.

Selected teaching awards

2022.	Austin Independent School District Teacher of Promise.
2022.	Texas Teachers of Tomorrow Scholarship.