(brief CV, revised 4/19/07)
Associate
Professor of Linguistics
Department
of Humanities
Michigan
Technological University
Education
Harvard University Linguistics Ph.D. 1987
MIT
(cross-registered for Ph.D. coursework) 1981-83
Harvard University Linguistics A.M. 1982
Whitman College English B.A.,
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa 1978
1996-present Associate
Professor, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
1999-2002 Director of Graduate Programs in
Rhetoric & Technical Communication, MTU
1989-1996 Assistant
Professor, MTU
1986-1989 Assistant
Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1985 Instructor,
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, spring quarter.
1983-84 Fulbright
Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Nairobi, Kenya
1980-86
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Selected Publications
Edited
Book
Rethinking Language and Gender
Research: Theory and Practice. Bergvall,
Victoria L., Bing, Janet M., & Freed, Alice F., eds. London and New York:
Longman Press, 1996.
Selected
Journal Articles
(accepted,
forthcoming) ÒHormones, hard-wiring, and headlines: The discursive construction
of gender ideology,Ó Discourse & Society.
ÒToward a Comprehensive Theory of
Language and GenderÓ Language in Society
(1999) 28.2:273-293.
ÒAn Agenda for Language and Gender
Research for the Start of the New Millennium.Ó Linguistik Online.(1999)
http://viadrina.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~wjournal/heft1_99/ (~14 pages)
ÒPower, Resistance, and Gender in
Educational Discourse: Beyond Counts to Contexts.Ó Bergvall, Victoria L. and
Remlinger, Kathryn A. Discourse & Society (1996) 7(4): 453-479.
ÒJoining in Academic Conversation:
Gender, Power, and the Apportionment of Turns at Talk,Ó Studies in the
Linguistic Sciences (1995) 25(2): 105-129.
ÒThawing the Freezing Climate for Women:
Views from Both Sides of the Desk,Ó Bergvall, Victoria L., Sorby, Sheryl A.,
and Worthen, James B. (1994)
Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 1(4): 323-346.
Selected
Book Chapters
ÒThe Question of Questions,Ó
reprint of Bing & Bergvall (1996); the final chapter in Coates, Jennifer,
ed. Language and Gender: A Reader.
Oxford: Blackwell. (1998) pp. 495-510.
ÒThe
Question of Questions: Beyond Binary Thinking.Ó Bing, Janet M. and Bergvall,
Victoria L. In Bergvall, Bing, and Freed, (1996) pp. 1-30.
ÒConstructing and Enacting Gender
Through Discourse: Negotiating Multiple Roles as Female Engineering Students.Ó
In Bergvall, Bing, and Freed, (1996) pp. 173-201.
ÒDivided Minds: Gender Polarization
in Brain and Language Research,Ó in Natasha Warner, Jocelyn Ahlers, Leela
Bilmes, Monica Oliver, Suzanne Wertheim, and Melinda Chen, eds., Gender and
Belief Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Women and Language
Conference. (1996) pp. 11-23. Berkeley, CA:
Berkeley Women & Language Group.
Language and Gender Beyond Nature
and Nurture, singly authored book.
ÒGenes, Gender,
& Language: Challenging ÔManly MenÕ & ÔGirly Girls,ÕÓ at the
International Gender and Language Association (IGALA4), Valencia, Spain,
November 10, 2006.
ÒAnalyzing
Gender Representations in Public Media: Matching Tools to Tasks,Ó at the 14th
AILA (International Applied Linguistics Association) World Congress, July 25,
2005.
ÒBridging
Discursive Chasms in Debates about Sex/Gender: Beyond Nature and Nurture,Ó
invited plenary address at the Poznan Linguistics Meeting, Poznan, Poland,
April 24, 2005. Also presented as
invited seminars at:
¥
Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland) (April 21)
¥
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (April 25)
¥
Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) (May 2)
ÒIdeologies
of Nature and Nurture in Language and Gender Research,Ó in a panel I organized,
Perspectives on Ideologies of Language and Gender, presented at the Third Biennial International Gender and Language
Association (IGALA-3), Cornell University, June 7, 2004.
ÒPicture This: Realizing Language and Gender
in Theory and Image,Ó poster for the joint COSWL/IGALA conference, E. Lansing,
MI, July 2003. Received 2004 ÒBest Conference Paper AwardÓ from the
Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender.
ÒFrom Dichotomies to Continua (and Back?): Theorizing
and Representing Gender.Ó Paper presented at the 25th Organization
for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) meeting,
Minneapolis, MN, October 4, 2002.
ÒMaking a Difference: Science, the Media, and the
Construction of Gender Ideologies.Ó Paper presented at the International Gender
and Language Association (IGALA-2) meeting, Lancaster, England, April 12, 2002.
ÒPride and
Parody: The Upper Peninsula (UP/"Yooper") Dialect of Michigan.Ó Paper
presented at the American Dialect Association/Linguistic Society of America
meeting, Washington, DC, January 4, 2001.
ÒThe
Continuum of Gender Construction in On-Line Discourse: Communicating in a
Technical Environment.Ó Paper presented at the International Gender and
Language Association (IGALA-1), Stanford University, CA, May 6, 2000.
ÒRethinking
Gender in Cyberia: Where Does Gender Go in the Computer-Mediated Construction
of Technical Communication?Ó Paper
presented at the Challenging Rhetorics: Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, Minneapolis,
MN, Oct. 7. Part of a two-part panel I organized, entitled Gender in
Cyberia: How Gender (Still Really) Matters in Electronic Discourse, 1999.
ÒMoving from Face-to-Face to New
Electronic Discourse Traditions: The Contributions of Linguistic Analysis of
Computer-Mediated Discourse,Ó part of panel that I organized, Finding Our
Voices: Using Close Analysis of Electronic Discourse to Study and Create New
Traditions. Computers and Writing
Conference, Rapid City, SD; May 26, 1999.
ÒTheory
into Practice: Why Theory Matters in Language and Gender Research.Ó Paper
presented at the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley, CA,
April 25, 1998.
ÒConsidering Theory and Method in
Language and Gender Research.Ó Part of invited/refereed symposium: Communities
of Practice in Language and Gender Research.
Sixth International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, University of
Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario; May 17, 1997.
Research Interests
Language
and gender (nature~nurture, ideology; the reporting of gender variation, from
scientific reports to popular press; graphic/book cover portrayals of language
and gender variation; on-line/computer-mediated performance of gender
variation)
Language and mind
Local dialect variation
Computer-mediated communication
Classroom discourse
Teaching (Selected Recent Courses)
HU5030
Linguistic Analysis: sociolinguistics, discourse theory & analysis,
oral/written/electronic
HU6111
Special Topics in Gender Studies: Gender and Language
HU5004
Communication in Cultural Contexts
HU5100
Qualitative Research Methods
HU5001
Proseminar in RTC
HU2910 Language and Mind
HU2920 Language in Society
HU3910 Language Issues in the World
UN1001 Perspectives on Inquiry: What is
Intelligence?
Graduate Advising
Ph.D. Chair of two completed dissertations (Kathryn Remlinger, 1995; Gerald
Savage, 1994); two in process (Thomas Henry; Laurence Jose)
Chaired seven other doctoral committees, Member of
nineteen other doctoral committees
MasterÕs Chaired nine masterÕs
committees (5 theses; 2 projects; 2 coursework papers)
Member of fifteen other masterÕs committees; two in
Social Sciences
Selected Professional & Administrative
Activities
International International
Gender and Language Association
¥ Elected Vice President (2006-08)/President-Elect
(2008-2010)
National
Committee
on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL) (1992-1994)
¥ Co-Chair, Chair (1993, 93-94) ¥ Conference Organizer
(Summer 1993)