Joshua Raclaw                          Dept of Linguistics - Ph.D. Student                           Culture, Language, & Social Practice                          Women and Gender Studies                         University of Colorado at Boulder

I'm a doctoral student in Linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where I'm involved with the interdisciplinary programs in Culture, Language, and Social Practice and Women and Gender Studies. My interests lie broadly within sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and conversation analysis, with a focus on language, gender and sexuality. I am especially interested in how speakers in the U.S. orient to monogamy as both a practice and a dominant sexual discourse, and have been researching how polyamorous identified speakers orient to these ideas in constructing a distinctly poly identity through talk. More on that and other research here. I live with my partner and our two cats, who like to scream at the neighbors and sleep in my laundry, and came to Colorado by way of South Jersey (and there by way of Brooklyn, NY) I'm a vegan going on nine years now, and fond of long walks to any of the four organic grocery stores within a ten mile radius of my apartment. Spare time is usually devoted to baking, vinyasa yoga, reading, gaming, and other things that I don't actually have the spare time to do. all pages and images copyright © 2009 joshua raclaw

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