Rusty Barrett teaches in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research has examined the relationship between queer theory and sociolinguistic theory, popular conceptions of “gay language,” and expressions of identity in performances by African American drag queens.
Judith Mattson Bean is an associate professor of English at Texas Woman’s University. Her essays on twentieth-century sociolinguistics and discourse appear in Discourse Processes, Language and Society, SECOL Review, and Southwestern American Literature. She also has written articles and chapters on the discourse of nineteenth-century writer Margaret Fuller.
Mary Bucholtz is an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is coeditor of Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self (1995) and Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse (1999). Her research focuses on language, gender, race, and youth.
Jenny Cook-Gumperz is a professor of education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A sociologist and sociolinguist, she is well known for her work on literacy theory and the social context of children’s language learning. She is the author of The Social Construction of Literacy, Social Control and Socialization, and Children’s Worlds and Children’s Language (with William Corsaro and Jurgen Streeck), as well as numerous articles on literacy and language socialization.
Catherine Evans Davies studied with Robin Tolmach Lakoff at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an associate professor in the English department at the University of Alabama. Her research explores gender issues, cross-cultural interaction, language socialization, humor, media and popular culture, and the discourse of the American South.
Penelope Eckert is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. She is the author of Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School (1989), Language Variation as Social Practice (2000), and Language and Gender (2003; with Sally McConnell-Ginet), as well as numerous articles on language, gender, sexuality, and adolescence.
Susan Ehrlich is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, York University. Her areas of research include language and gender, language and the law, and second language acquisition. Her work has appeared in journals such as Discourse & Society, Forensic Linguistics, and Language in Society. Her most recent book is Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001).
Rudolf P. Gaudio teaches anthropology at Purchase College of the State University of New York. His research focuses on the moral and political economies of language, gender, sexuality, and space in northern Nigeria and the United States. His work has appeared in American Speech, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Socialist Review, and several edited volumes.
Kira Hall is an assistant professor in the Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her publications include the edited collections Gender Articulated (with Mary Bucholtz) and Queerly Phrased (with Anna Livia). She is currently completing a book on the linguistic and cultural practices of Hindi-speaking hijras in northern India.
Susan C. Herring, a leading expert on gender and computer-mediated communication, is a professor of information science and linguistics at Indiana University. She has edited three collections on computer-mediated communication and has written numerous articles on gender and the Internet. Her current research focuses on the representation of women and men in multimedia computer interfaces.
Janet Holmes is a professor of linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington and director of the Language in the Workplace Project. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and has published on a wide range of topics, including language and gender, New Zealand English, and workplace communication.
Sachiko Ide is a professor of linguistics at Japan Women’s University. She is coeditor of Aspects of Japanese Women’s Language (Kurosio, 1990) and Women’s Languages in Various Parts of the World, a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (1998). Her research areas include sociolinguistics, contrastive pragmatics, and language and culture.
Barbara Johnstone is a professor of rhetoric and linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of several books, including Stories, Community, and Place (1990) and The Linguistic Individual (1996). Her work focuses on the role of the individual speaker in discourse and on links between language, identity, and place.
Shari Kendall is an assistant professor of linguistics in the Department of English, Texas A&M University. Her research addresses the discursive construction of gendered, professional, and parental identities in work and family discourse; the constitution of ideologies of gender in legal contexts and the media; and the theoretical frameworks of framing, positioning, and interactional sociolinguistics.
Scott Fabius Kiesling is an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has focused his language and gender research on the language used in an all-male American fraternity. He has also investigated language and ethnic identity in Sydney, Australia, and social patterns of language change in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Robin Tolmach Lakoff has been a professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley since 1972. Among her writings are Language and Woman’s Place (1975), Talking Power (1990), and The Language War (2000).
William L. Leap is a professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Anthropology, American University. His long-term studies of language, culture, sexuality, and power have generated a series of essays exploring “gay men’s English” and attacking proposals to erase the significance of speaker identity in linguistic practice. His current research examines (homo) sexual geography in Washington, D. C., and the linguistics of homophobia.
Anna Livia obtained her PhD in French linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where she now teaches. She is the author of Pronoun Envy and coeditor of Queerly Phrased, both published by Oxford University Press. Her current research focuses on collocations of gender, class, and race and representations of reverse anthropology in francophone film.
Yoshiko Matsumoto, an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages at Stanford University, received her PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on pragmatic aspects of Japanese, politeness, and issues of gender and age. A related paper, “Alternative Femininity: Personae of Middle-Aged Mothers,” is forthcoming in Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology (Oxford University Press).
Sally McConnell-Ginet is a professor of linguistics at Cornell University, where she is also active in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. She has been teaching and doing research on language and gender/sexuality since the time LWP first appeared; she also works in formal semantics and pragmatics. With Penelope Eckert, she has published Language and Gender (2003).
Bonnie McElhinny is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her interests include feminist theory; language, gender, and political economy; linguistic, historical, and anthropological studies of child rearing; and language, place, and political ecology.
Norma Mendoza-Denton is an assistant professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of Arizona and the founder and director of the Linguistic Anthropology Teaching Laboratory. She is a recent recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residence Fellowship and author of the forthcoming book Homegirls: Symbolic Practices in the Making of Latina Youth Styles.
Miriam Meyerhoff is reader in linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She has published work looking at how gender relates to social identities in Vanuatu (Pacific) and is now participating in fieldwork in Bequia (Caribbean) looking at gender and ethnicity. She recently coedited The Handbook of Language and Gender (2003).
Marcyliena Morgan is an associate professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her books include Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture and Language and The Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations. Her research interests include African American English and language ideology, identity, gender, and youth in the African diaspora.
Robin Queen is an assistant professor of linguistics and Germanic linguistics at the University of Michigan. Her research concerns the intersections of language and sociocultural identity, focusing primarily on these intersections as they occur in Turkish communities in Germany, in American films dubbed into German, and within queer linguistics.
Deborah Tannen is University Professor at Georgetown University. Her books include Talking Voices, Conversational Style, Gender and Discourse, Talking from 9 to 5, That’s Not What I Meant!, The Argument Culture, and I Only Say This Because I Love You. Her most recent research, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, examines framing in family interaction.
Sara Trechter is an associate professor of linguistics in the Department of English at California State University, Chico. She has written on the grammar and pragmatics of gender in Lakhota discourse and on the construction of whiteness in Lakhota. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Gendered Voices in Lakhota.