about

I’m a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at University of Maryland, advised by Jeff Lidz and Norbert Hornstein. For more information about my research, see my research page.

Outside of linguistics, I’m also interested in web development, programming, and system administration. And I really like coffee. I worked as a barista, off-and-on, for a few years at the Dunn Bros at the Smith Douglas More House, now known as Smith.

recent updates

• January 4, 2019

  Hanna Muller and Phoebe Gaston presented our paper with Bethany Dickerson, Karthik Durvasula, Mina Hirzel, Kasia Hitczenko, Maggie Kandel, Paulina Lsykawa, Jackie Nelligan, Max Papillon, and Laurel Perkins called “Gender bias in representation and publishing rates across subfields” at the LSA 2019 Annual Meeting in New York, NY. This paper is part of ongoing work with the Bias in Linguistics working group.

• July 12, 2018

  Rachel Stacey, Robert Felster, and Adam Smolinski presented our paper with Alan Munn and Cristina Schmitt called “Scalar Implicature Variability in Adults and Children: The Case of ‘or’” at the Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Exploration workshop, hosted by Università di Siena in Siena, Italy.

• March 23, 2018

  My paper “Grammaticalized number, implicated presuppositions, and the plural” with Tess Huelskamp, Chris Heffner, and Cristina Schmitt was published in Glossa.

• October 2, 2017

  My paper “The Interpretation of Plural Morphology and (Non-)Obligatory Number Marking: An Argument from Artificial Language Learning” with Chris Heffner and Cristina Schmitt was published in Language Learning and Development.

• August 20, 2017

  I’ve released a much overdue update to my LaTeX workshop (for linguists) handout. I hope you will find this useful; feedback is more than welcome! 😀 🎉