I'm a doctoral student in linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where I'm also involved with the interdisciplinary program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice. My research interests lie primarily in the study of everyday language use, using the framework of conversation analysis. My dissertation research looks at the interactional functions of negative response particles in English, and is supervised by Barbara Fox.

Prior to this focus on interaction and grammar I was trained as a sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist, and still maintain strong interests in the study of language, gender, and sexuality, computer-mediated discourse, and language and identity. I especially enjoy teaching within these areas, and have taught courses on Language in U.S. Society, Language and Gender, World Language Policies, and Cross-Cultural Communication.

Outside of academia I enjoy spending way too many hours in my kitchen, riding bikes around town, studying Swedish (jag älskar språket), and lounging around with my cat.