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Conference Presentations
“#basicbitch: Semiotic Registers and Icons of Personhood on Social Media Platforms”. Presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 21; Murcia, Spain, June 2016.
“#InstaLL: Contextualizing the Linguistic Landscape through Social Media”. Presented at the Linguistic Landscapes 8 Workshop; University of Liverpool, Liverpool UK, April 2016.
“‘Mi casa? Tu casa?: Gentrification and Identity of Place in Pilsen, Chicago”. Presented at the 2016 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, April 2016.
“Quantifying the Urban Linguistic Landscape: Nostalgia and Authenticity in San Francisco and New Delhi”. Presented at the 2015 New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 44) Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 2015.
“Signs of the Times: Modeling the Landscape of Gentrification”. Presented at the Linguistic Landscape 7 Workshop; Berkeley, California, May 2015.
“Quantifying the Linguistic Landscape — Reflections on Inferential Analyses”. Presented at the Linguistic Landscape 7 Workshop; Berkeley, California, May 2015.
“‘Grumpy Cat’ or ‘Bakchod Billi’? Multilingual Creativity and the Glocal Meme on Facebook India”. Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics and Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée 2015 Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 2015.
“Mapping the Linguistic Ecosystem: A Quantitative Analysis of South Delhi’s Linguistic Landscape”. Poster at the 2015 LSA Meeting; Portland Oregon, January 2015.
“Public Legacies: (in)authenticity in the Linguistic Landscape of Pilsen, Chicago”.First author and presenter at NWAV 43; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, Illinois; October 2014 (second author Itxaso Rodriguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.)
“Indian Urbanscape: Contemporary Dynamics of English Bilingualism”. First author and presenter at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 20; University of Jyväskylä, Finland; June 2014 (second author Dr. Rakesh Bhatt, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign).
“Transgression, Nostalgia and the ‘glocal’ citizen”. Presented at SALSA (Symposium about Language and Society – Austin); University of Texas at Austin; April 2014.
“Evaluations of South Delhi’s Linguistic Landscape: Online Survey”. Presented at the ILLS Conference (Illinois Language and Linguistics Society); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; April 2014.
Seminars
“#mysanfrancisco: Social Media and the Conceptual Linguistic Landscape”, Invited Seminar for the Linguistics Department at Southern Illinois University, October 2016.
Workshops
“Linguistic Landscapes on Social Media” for Text Mining for Sociolinguistic Research. Presented at NWAV 45 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) with Joseph Roy, Anna Maria Escobar and Gyula Zsombok; Simon Fraser University and University of Victoria in Vancouver, British Columbia; November 2016.