Teaching

I teach a variety of courses in linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science.

Key Experiences

Previous courses

  • ENGL3134: Gender and Linguistics, Virginia Tech (Spring 2026)
  • LING460: Diversity and Unity in Human Languages [Intro. Sociolinguistics], University of Maryland (Spring 2022)
    • Instructor of Record
  • PULSAR (Program for Undergraduate Language Science Ambassadors in Research), University of Maryland (Spring, Fall 2019)
    • Graduate Fellow
    • Met with students twice per semester for individual mentorship
    • Led 1-2 class sessions per semester on topics in research, such as reference management and crowdsourced studies

Guest Lecturer

  • LING410: Morphology - “Morphology of African American Language”, Penn State University (Fall 2024)
  • HESP 724: Research Design - “Inferential Statistics and Power Analysis”, University of Maryland (Spring 2020, 2021)
  • ARHU158: Explorations in Arts and Humanities - “The evolution of language has real world impact”, University of Maryland (Fall 2018)

Mentoring

  • Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, University of Maryland Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences (2022-2023)
  • Project RISE Graduate Student Mentor (2019-2020)
    • A paid research fellowship for undergraduate students designed to increase diversity in the pool of students who pursue doctoral studies in fields related to language and literacy
    • Mentored student project on African American Language
    • Gave guest lecture on language variation (Summer 2018)

Other Teaching Experience

  • Penn State Center for Language Science, Language and Linguistics Day Speaker (2024)
    • Gave lecture on linguistic diversity to 90 local high school students and their teachers
    • Prepared and facilitated interactive activities analyzing linguistic data
  • UMD Language Science Center Winter Storm, Session Organizer (2020-2021)
    • Two-week intensive language science professional development program
    • Led workshop on using git and github (January 2021)
    • Led workshop on eye-tracking data analysis (January 2020)
    • Led planning sessions for dialect diversity initiative (January 2020)
  • The Fulbright Program, English Teaching Assistant in Berlin (Sept. 2013 – June 2014)
    • Taught and assistant-taught English courses (grades 3–10) to German students and recent immigrants at a special education school for students with conduct disorders