Teaching
In 2009, I took part in a class in linguistic anthropology at LSA Summer Linguistic Institute at UC Berkeley, which blew me away. Fascinated by work in anthropology of language contact in the USA and Mexico, in the following year, I enrolled in an MA programme with a focus in linguistic anthropology and linguistics, and spent the summer travelling around Mexico and parts of the Caribbean. The transformative effect of education guides me also in my own teaching in which my primary goals are to challenge students’ own assumptions about language and culture and develop critical thinking. I have taught at undergraduate and graduate levels. I have also supervised a wide range of BA projects, MA theses and am currently supervising a PhD thesis. At Birkbeck, I am also Programme Director for BA English and/with Linguistics, and School lead for Postgraduate Taught Degrees. COURSES TAUGHT:
SOCIOLINGUISTICS: lectures for undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy, psychology and linguistics, and modern languages, including English, and linguistics (University of Oxford, University of Brighton, Birkbeck), tutorials (University of Oxford, University of Brighton), seminar sessions (University of Oxford, Birkbeck)
RESEARCH METHODS AND DESIGN and EMPIRICAL RESEARCH METHODS: seminar sessions for MA and BA students in linguistics and languages, applied linguistics (Birkbeck)
INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: seminar sessions for PhD students from across social sciences (London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership, QMUL, KCL, Imperial)
ANALYSING LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND USE: lectures and seminars in advanced linguistic theory (general linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, CA) for undergraduate and graduate students of modern languages and linguistics (Birkbeck)
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY: group tutorials in articulatory, acoustic and auditory for undergraduate students (University of Oxford), seminars in English phonetics and phonology (University of Warsaw)
LANGUAGE AND MIGRATION: seminar sessions for undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics and intercultural communication (Birkbeck, Universität Greifswald)
INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY: workshops with students of architecture (Aarhus School of Architecture)
READING TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES: seminar sessions for BA students of languages and cultures (Birkbeck)
REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LOVE: seminar sessions for BA students of languages and cultures (Birkbeck)
UNDERSTANDING THE CITY: seminar session on linguistic landscaping for MA students of urban studies (Birkbeck)
RESEARCHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE USE: seminar sessions for advanced undergraduate students of linguistics and English (University of Brighton)
LANGUAGE OF MEDIA: seminar sessions for advanced undergraduate students of linguistics and English (University of Brighton)
TEXT DESIGN: lectures for undergraduate and graduate students of English language and linguistics (University of Brighton)
