I like talking in public. Performances, dramatic readings, and TED-style talks about language, technology, accessibility and identity are my jam.

Public Talks

  • Klingon for Content. April, 2017. Presentation at Drupalcon, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Content Strategy for Conversational Devices. March, 2017. Austin UXPA Presenter Series, in conjunction with Amazon for SXSW, Austin, Texas.
  • Rethinking Digital Humanities & Linguistics. January, 2015. Popularizing Linguistics through New Media datablitz panel at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Portland, Oregon.

Performances

  • “No Thanks.” November, 2017. Reading at Greetings from Queer Mountain, Austin, Texas.
  • “Being Gay in 2016.” June, 2016. Reading at Greetings from Queer Mountain, Austin, Texas.
  • “What’s Linguistics?” February, 2016. Reading at Greetings from Queer Mountain, Austin, Texas.

Podcasts & Workshops & Webinars

  • Writing for the Web. 2017. Two-day writing workshop developed hosted for several private clients.
  • Sharp Ideas. 2016–2017. 22 episodes across two seasons. Producer & Host. (Podcast about the human components of technology and web development.)
  • Future of the CMS. 2015–2017. Three episodes. Producer & Co-writer. (Webinar series for web development.)
  • Popular Linguistics. 2013–2014. 14 episodes. Producer & Host. (Instructional videos for introductory linguistics concepts.)

Presentations

A small selection of relevant keynotes and conference presentations from my academic career; full CV available upon request.

Invited Talks and Keynote Addresses

  • Digital Humanities & Digital Literacy. May, 2015. Invited lightning talk for “ReBoot 2.0” – a Digital Humanities colloquium, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.
  • Digital Literacy in Linguistics. May, 2015. Presentation at the Center for Teaching & Learning’s Digital Pedagogy Showcase – Digital Communication Across The Curriculum, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.
  • Queer Accents & Linguistic Identity. April, 2014. Invited talk for the LGBTQ Research Consortium. Pride Center, San Diego, California.
  • The Role of Sexuality in the Construction of Gender. May, 2011. Hunter Undergraduate Language & Linguistics conference (HULLS), Hunter College, New York.

Conference Presentations

  • Punks, Queers, and Anarchists: Linguistic Variation from the Outside. October, 2014. Poster presentation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 43, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Naïve Categorization of American English Vowels. August, 2014. Methods in Dialectology XV, Groningen, Netherlands.
  • Southwestern US English: Indexing “Local” Identity in Dialect Contact Settings via Performance Speech. September, 2013. Fifth International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 5), Austin, TX.