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Category: Queer Linguistics

  • Queering the military: Thank you for your service (abstract)

    I’m excited to present my research again at the Linguistics Society of America’s 94th Annual Meeting. The title of my paper is “Queering the military: Thank you for your service.” The extended abstract is below. Abstract: In the United States, national identity and military identity are inextricably linked. And, the U.S. military is arguably an…

  • Queering leadership: leadership narratives as stories of self-commodification

    Recently, I was invited to contribute my research about how Naval Officers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender talk about their leadership performance through “sea-stories.” The book, which centers on Queer Linguistics as an approach, really forced me to re-examine my analysis through a Queer Theory and Queer Linguistics lens. The chapter will…