curriculum vitae

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Education

2004-(exp. 2010). Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Committee chairs: Seth Cable & Angelika Kratzer

2003. B.A. summa cum laude, French; and with special distinction, Linguistics.
Minor in History. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Post-graduate Grants and Fellowships

2009-2010. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: "Switch-reference and Topicality." National Science Foundation. Award: $11,290 for fieldwork on Kiowa.

2006-2009. Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation.

2004-2005. Opportunity Award Fellowship, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Papers and Publications

2007. Non-canonical switch-reference and topic situations. Generals Paper in Semantics, UMass-Amherst.

2007. "Switch-reference and situation semantics." in Proceedings of SULA 4, Amy Rose Deal, ed. GLSA: Amherst, MA.

2006. Universal Quantifiers, Negation, and the EPP. Generals Paper in Syntax, UMass-Amherst.

2003. Ergativity in Kiowa. Undergraduate Thesis in Linguistics. University of Oklahoma.

Invited Talks

2009. "A New Approach to Switch-Reference." UC San Diego.

2009. "Switch-reference and the Grammar of Meaning." Five College Consortium Native American Indian Studies group.

Conference and Workshop Talks

2010. "Resource situations and Kiowa Switch-reference." SALT 20.

2009. "An Expanded Look at Switch-Reference Phenomena." 2nd Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Languages.

2009. "....." Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

2008. "Effects of Matrix Quantification on Sequence of Tense." Workshop in honor of Angelika Kratzer, MIT.

2008. Kiowa switch-reference and contextual restriction. CLS 44.

2007. Canonical Switch-reference and Categorical Judgments. Southern New England Workshop on Semantics, MIT.

2007. "Switch-reference and situation semantics." SULA 4. Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

2007. "A syntactic argument for a semantic EPP." ECO 5 Student Syntax Workshop, held at UMass-Amherst.

Teaching

As sole instructor:

Linguistics 201 (Intro. to Linguistic Theory): Fall 2009 (2 sections), Spring 2009 (2 sections), Summer 2009 UMass-Amherst.
2nd-year English (as foreign language): Fall 2003 (24 sections), Spring 2004 (23 sections). Université d'Auvergne, IUP Managment Institute. Clermont-Ferrand, France.

As an assistant:

Linguistics 413 (Sociolinguistics): Fall 2005. UMass-Amherst.
Linguistics 101 (People and their Language): Spring 2006 (2 sections). UMass-Amherst.
Linguistics 201 (Intro to Linguistic Theory): Spring 2005 (2 sections). UMass-Amherst.
English Lab: 2000-2001 (4 sections). Assistant de Lectrice (Lecturer's Assistant). English Hypermedia Centre. Département de Langues Etrangères Appliquées, Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont 2). Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Book Editing

2007. Proceedings of SULA 3. co-edited with Michael Becker. GLSA: Amherst, MA.