I joined the Department of Linguistics at IU in 2014.
At IU, I teach undergraduate linguistics courses to students from a range of academic and cultural backgrounds and help to prepare Linguistics graduate students for teaching. See my Teaching page for downloadables.
I also currently serve as Convener of the Linguistic Society of America's Special Interest Group on Scholarly Teaching.
In all of these spheres, my goal is to create welcoming communities of life-long learners.
In a former life, I did research on language processing and first language acquisition, investigating how word learning and event descriptions reveal what preschoolers understand about the world. See my Publications page for downloadables.
Academic Interests
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), language processing and acquisition, event representation, the syntax/semantics/cognition interface
Education
PhD, 2006, Linguistics, Northwestern University
BS, 1997, Biology and Linguistics, College of William & Mary