Erez
Levon
Lecturer
in Linguistics
School
of Languages,
Linguistics and Film
Queen
Mary, University of London
Mile
End Road, London E1 4NS
United
Kingdom
t:
+44 207 882 8435
f:
+44 208 980 5400
I am a sociolinguist, and I am primarily
interested in the relationship between language and society, or the ways in
which people use language to do social work. My current research focuses on the
ways in which gay men and lesbians in Israel use language to negotiate between
their own socio-sexual identifications and the politics of gender, sexuality
and conceptions of national identity in Israel.
Education:
PhD in Linguistics New
York University (2008)
MA in Linguistics New
York University (2002)
BA in Linguistics & French University of California Los Angeles (2000)
Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
Selected Research:
“National Discord: Language,
Sexuality and the Politics of Belonging in Israel,” PhD Dissertation, New York
University, 2008.
“Définitions et méthodes d’approche des minorités sexuelles,” in Laithier, S.
& V. Vilmain (eds.) L’Histoire des Minorités est-elle une Histoire
Marginale? Paris: Presse Universitaire de Paris, Sorbonne, 2008 [in
French].
“Sexuality in context:
Variation and the sociolinguistic perception of identity,” Language in
Society 36: 533-554, 2007.
“Hearing gay: Prosody,
interpretation and the affective judgments of men’s speech,” American
Speech 81: 56-78, 2006.
“Mosaic
identity and style: Phonological variation among Reform American Jews,” Journal
of Sociolinguistics 10: 185-205, 2006.
Current
and Recent Teaching:
Language and Gender (Queen Mary, Spring
2008)
Linguistic Research Projects (Queen
Mary, Spring 2008)
Bilingualism (NYU, Spring 2005)
Structure of English Vocabulary (NYU, Fall 2003)
Sex, Gender and Language (NYU Spring 2003)
Introduction to Linguistics (NYU, Summer 2002)
Honors, Grants and Awards:
International Dissertation Research
Fellowship (Israel), Social Science Research Council, 2005-2006
NYU Torch Fellowship (research in Israel), 2005-2006
Max Talmey Award (research in
Israel), 2003
New York University Pre-doctoral
Fellowship (research in Israel), 2003
Outstanding Teaching Award (New York
University), 2003
Professional
Service:
Co-coordinator, New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 34,
2003 – 2005
President, Linguistics
Association of NYU (LANYU), 2001-2003
Professional
Affiliations:
Linguistics
Society of America
American
Anthropological Association
International Gender and Language
Association
Israeli Association for the Study
of Language and Society