Research

Four lines of inquiry, one question: who gets heard?

My projects connect sociophonetic detail to broader structures of disability, race, technology, political performance, and geopolitics.

Disability & language

How deaf and hard-of-hearing speakers negotiate oralism, assistive technologies, affect, and linguistic agency.

How parody, accent, and listening practices racialize mobile people—and how listeners and speakers position themselves.

How political actors use linguistic and gestural variation to perform affiliation, ideology, authority, and competition.

How tensions between Taiwan and China reshape the linguistic boundaries through which people within Taiwan distinguish one another.