Presentations
I am available to give talks, lectures, and presentations on various topics related to my expertise in sociolinguistics.I have given numerous talks to scholarly audiences at colleges and universities as well as to groups of K-12+ educators and community members.
For a list of my recent appearances and presentations, click here.
From July 11-13, 2011, Anne H. Charity Hudley and I presented a workshop and mini-plenary session at the American Federation of Teachers TEACH 2011 Conference in Washington, D.C., followed by a book signing. Our workshop title is: Using Knowledge about Language Variation to Support Multicultural Literature Instruction: Models from African American and Southern English. Our mini plenary title is: Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools. Click here to see an official AFT picture of us setting up our book exhibit!
In 2010, I was invited to give a plenary address at the conference, New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39 in San Antonio, Texas. The title of my plenary, “Borrowing and Lending: Contributions to the Study of Language and Social Stratification across Sociolinguistics, Sociology, and Education,” will be given as part of a series of conference plenaries. Click here to read my abstract and to read those of the other plenary speakers.
Some of my regular presentation topics include:
- Language Variation in Diverse Schools and Communities
- Southern English and Appalachian English
- African American English, including its History and Development
- Regional, Gender, and Class Variation in Varieties of American English
- Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Service-Learning in Sociolinguistics
- Interdisciplinarity: Sociolinguistics and sociology
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My CV provides a complete list of my presentations. Please contact me at <mallinson AT umbc DOT edu> for more information.
