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Research


My research interests lie primarily in language and social interaction, particularly how relationships and identities may be constructed and managed through everyday interaction. I am also interested in issues of language, gender, and sexuality.
 
Currently, I am working on the following items:
 
1) Preparing a manuscript (in collaboration with Leanne Knobloch & Kristen Satterlee, U-
      Illinois) for submission to Communication Research.

 
2) Preparing a sole-authored manuscript for submission to Narrative Inquiry.

  3) Editing a sole-authored conference paper on the discursive approach in politeness 
      research with the possiblity of journal submission.

In the past, I have acquired experience as a research assistant with research projects in corpus linguistics (with John Swales), sexualities (with Kristin Scherrer), and social psychology (at the UM Institute for Social Research).