Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics at NYU (2006) [Dissertation abstract];
M.A. in Linguistics, Eastern-European History, and Comparative Literature (1998) from Universität zu Köln (Cologne, Germany)

Current and recent teaching:
Fall 2007: at York University, Toronto
Spring 2007: Anthropology of Language (Instructor, NYU)
                Language and the Law (Topics in Linguistic Anthropology) (Instructor, Queens College)
                Language, Culture, and Society (Instructor, Queens College)
Fall 2006: Introduction to Language and Culture (Instructor, Barnard College)
                Language, Culture, and Society (Instructor, Queens College)
Spring 2006: Bilingualism (Instructor, NYU)
                    Language, Culture, and Society (Instructor, Queens College)
Fall 2005: MAP Societies and the Social Sciences: Linguistic Perspectives (Teaching Assistant, NYU)

Research interests: Bilingualism/Language Contact, Code-Switching, Urban Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Law, Forensic Linguistics, Translation Studies, Interpreting, Variation, Discourse Analysis, Phonology, Reduplication, Pidgin and Creole languages, Slavic languages.

Papers & Presentations:

Spelling Bilingualism: Script Choice in Russian American Classified Ads and Signage. Language in Society 34 (4), 493-531. [2005]

Who is 'you'? Polite forms of address and ambiguous participant roles in court interpreting. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies 17 (2), 203-226. [2005]

Mehrsprachigkeit vor Gericht: Sprachwahl und Sprachwechsel in gedolmetschten Schlichtungsverfahren. To appear in: Mehrsprachigkeit am Arbeitsplatz, edited by Bernd Meyer and Shinichi Kameyama. (Volume in the series: forum ANGEWANDTE LINGUISTIK, Publikationsreihe der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.

Who is 'I'? Pronoun choice and bilingual identity in court interpreting. In Selected Proceedings from NWAV 33. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 11.2, 31-44 (2005).

The Case for Politeness: Pronoun Variation in Co-ordinate NPs in Object Position in English. With John Victor Singler. Language Variation and Change 15 (2003), 171-209.

Lexical Cohesion as a Motivation for Code-switching: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilingual Speech in Court Testimonies. In Selected Proceedings from the First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Lotfi Sayahi, (2003) 112-122. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Copying Contiguous Gestures: An Articulatory Account of Bella Coola Reduplication. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 9.1 (2003).

Lexical Cohesion in Multilingual Conversation. International Journal of Bilingualism (2002) 6 (4), 361-393.

Calculating Linguistic Affinities between Atlantic English Creoles. 2001.

Multilingual Discourse in the Family: An analysis of conversations in a German-French-English-speaking family in Canada. Arbeitspapier Nr.33 (Neue Folge) Institut für Sprachwissenschaft Universität zu Köln, 1999.

Review of Hale, Sandra (2004) The Discourse of Court Interpreting LINGUIST List 16.1381

Current Projects:

Codeswitching and the Interpreter: Multilingualism in New York Small Claims Court (Dissertation Research).
Abstract

Graphemic Bivalency and Ambiguity in Russian-American Writing.

Awards, Grants, Honors:

Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, New York University (2004/5)

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (BCS-0317838; "Codeswitching and the Interpreter: Multilingualism in New York Small Claims Court.") (2003/4)

MacCracken Fellowship, New York University (1999-2003)

Membership of the Graduate Forum at NYU (2003-4)

Personal interests: (what graduate student has time for personal interests?)
Soccer (especially 1.FC Köln), Movies (especially Czech Cinema of the 1960s), German Literature & Literary History (especially exiled authors in New York during the 1930s & 40s).

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