31.3165, Staff Letter: Sarah Robinson

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3165. Fri Oct 16 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3165, Staff Letter: Sarah Robinson

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:23:42
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Staff Letter: Sarah Robinson

 
Dear LINGUIST List readers,

My name is Sarah, and I'm on the Pubs Team–I manage journals, journal calls
for papers, TOCs, summer schools, and dissertations. We may have met through
email, or you may have read some of my blog posts about nerd stuff on the LL
blog. I'm also cross-trained in jobs and conferences and can jump on those
editorial areas if other editors are out for the day.

I've worked at LL for a couple years now, and it's been an awesome
opportunity. LL has been instrumental to my academic career–I came to my
graduate program unfunded and tripled my student debt in less than a year. I
got a graduate assistantship from LL in my second year and it saved me from
having to drop out because of sheer financial pressure. What I mean to say is
that LL is providing opportunities to graduate students like me who might
otherwise have no way to participate in academia, and has been doing so for
years. LL keeps grad students afloat and helps provide for the next generation
of academics.

I earned my MA in General Linguistics in 2018 from Indiana University,
Bloomington, LL's host institution, and am now a member of the PhD program in
the Linguistics Department at IU, as well as doubling in the Germanic Studies
Department, while also working up a minor in cognitive science. Since starting
my graduate program, I've been able to study Old Norse, Icelandic, Old High
German, Old English, German, Gothic, ancient Germanic literature and
philology, (can you tell I have a bit of a thing for historical linguistics
and dead Germanic languages?), as well as branching out into Cognitive
Science, in particular the intersections between cognitive linguistics,
discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. It's a pretty broad range of topics,
but the overlaps in subjects have made it possible for me to specialize in a
really particular niche as well as building a strong background in a range of
linguistic studies.

LL provides a specific and indispensable opportunity to its editors–since we
interact with scholars all over the world in a huge range of specializations,
and since our job involves functionally acting as a middle man for the
fire-hose of academic literature and publications, we get a birds-eye-view of
the trends in current linguistics in a wide range of specializations and
subfields.

LL handles thousands of submissions and a gigantic amount of data day-to-day,
and there's only a handful of graduate students working diligently to keep our
30,000 subscribers up-to-date on linguistic publications, job opportunities,
conferences where they can submit their research, and much more, as well as
doing the hairy work of filtering predatory publishers and conferences that
are likely to hurt academic careers more than help them. And it's not just
editors who work so hard to support the global linguistics community around
here–keep an eye out for our WebDev team's “fun facts” series on Tuesdays to
learn more about all the services LL provides.

When you support the LINGUIST List, you support the mission the LINGUIST List
stands for–the cause of creating a global linguistics community, a place to
share knowledge and find resources–but you also support students like me, who
wouldn't otherwise be able to be part of it.

Thanks for donating!
Best regards,
Sarah






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