Online resources are great. But sometimes it’s just easier to find the answers and resources you’re looking for from real people. Below is a list of language consultants at the University of Michigan who are ready and waiting to talk to you, meet with you, or present a guest lecture for your class/student group about language matters. Their backgrounds, experiences, expertise, and interests provide a wide range of expertise.
- Natasha Abner | [email protected] | “I love talking with people about sign languages, the Deaf community, and language or other disability rights issues.”
- Anne Curzan | [email protected] | “I love talking with people about how the English language has changed over time, where words come from, singular ‘they’ and nonsexist language more generally, and any and all language peeves.”
- Hayley Heaton | [email protected] | “I love talking with people about language in the media, language attitudes, American Southern accents (or other regional dialects), and how media and attitudes can influence prejudice and discrimination.”
- Savithry Namboodiripad | [email protected] | “I love talking with people aboutmultilingualism in the US and around the world and why languages are so different from each other, yet so similar at the same time.”
- Acrisio Pires | [email protected] | “I love talking with people about language cognition, in particular regarding bilingualism, second language learning, syntactic variation across languages and linguistic theory, language change, and immigrant/heritage languages.”
- Robin Queen | [email protected] | “I love talking with people about language and identities and about my native Texas dialect (and any dialects people feel attached to).”
- Teresa Satterfield| [email protected] | “I love talking with people about the wonders of first- and second-language acquisition, youth-driven language contact and change, Mock Spanish, the politics of US heritage/minoritized language maintenance and computational modeling of language phenomena.”
- Kendon Smith | [email protected] | “I love talking with people about how language attitudes and beliefs are connected with social hierarchies and talking with teachers about developing students’ language awareness.”
- Crystal Zanders | [email protected] | “I love talking to people about linguistic inclusivity and the use of African American English in the English classroom, both historically and present day.”
