ELECTIONS OPEN

[Tanya Romaniuk]

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> Summary of positions/candidates (please use this as a ballot)
>
> Vice-President/President-elect (1 position)
> Jane Sunderland

YES

> Secretary (1 position)
> Susan Ehrlich

YES

> Advisory Committee (5 positions)

> Rudolf Gaudio

YES

> Janet Holmes

YES

> Ken Nozaki Lacy

YES

> Claire Maree

YES

> Joan Pujolar

NO

> Jie Yang

YES

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>
> STATEMENTS FROM THE CANDIDATES
>
> Vice-President/President-elect (1 position)
>
> Jane Sunderland
> I have taught in the area of Gender and Language for many years. Currently,
> at
> Lancaster University, UK, I teach ‘Gender and Language’ as an MA course and
> on
> our ‘thesis and coursework’ doctoral programme. I also co-ordinate the
> University’s
> ‘Gender and Language Research Group’, and have done so for many years.
> Further, I am a founder member of the new ‘Language and Gender’ Special
> Interest
> Group (SIG) which will be an associate of the British Association of Applied
> Linguistics (BAAL).
>
> The majority of my publications are in the area of gender and language. While
> in the
> past they have focussed on gender and (language) education, most recently
> they
> have centred on discourse. In 2002 I co-edited (with Lia Litosseliti) Gender
> Identity
> and Discourse Analysis (John Benjamins); most recently (2004) I have
> published
> Gendered Discourses (Palgrave Macmillan), a single-authored research
> monograph. I feel that I am very familiar with the gender and language field,
> and in
> relation to this am currently working on Language and Gender: an Advanced
> Resourcebook (Routledge), a ‘reader’ but with substantial amount of
> authorial
> commentary before each extract and suggested activities after.
>
> I attended IGALA1 (Stanford University, 2000) and was the main organiser for
> the
> very successful IGALA2 (Lancaster, 2002). This means that I have a clear
> understanding of what organising a large, international conference entails. I
> will be
> attending and presenting at the forthcoming IGALA3.
>
> I am particularly committed to fully ‘internationalising’ IGALA, and would
> like
> exploration of ways to achieve this to be one of the main features of my
> Vice
> Presidency.
>
>
> Secretary (1 position)
>
> Susan Ehrlich
> I am a professor at York University, Toronto, Canada cross-appointed to the
> departments of Linguistics and Women's Studies.  I have also taught and
> worked
> in the Netherlands, at the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands
> Graduate
> School in Linguistics.  My research over the last ten years has focussed on
> the
> discourse of sexual assault trials, specifically, the way that sexist
> ideologies circulate discursively in these contexts and constrain the kinds
> of
> identities complainants are able to construct.  In more recent work, I am
> documenting changes in the discursive frameworks structuring rape trials and
> the kinds of subject positions that these new, feminist frameworks make
> available to complainants.
> I have considerable administrative experience at York University, including
> chairing the newly-formed School of Women's Studies from 1997-1999.  I have
> also chaired the Social and Political Concerns committee of the Linguistic
> Society of America for the last two years, where we have dealt with a range
> of
> issues including the discriminatory practices of scholarly organizations and
> the politics of sign-language interpreting.  I believe that the
> interdisciplinary and political nature of my research combined with my
> institutional involvement in a range of social and political issues will
> allow
> me to help IGALA develop links with feminist scholars outside of North
> America
> and outside of the disciplines of linguistics and anthropology.
>
>
> Advisory Committee (5 positions)
>
> Rudolf Gaudio
> Given my longstanding involvement in language, gender and sexuality research
> and
> the diversity of my experiences as a teacher and scholar (described below), I
> see
> myself as helping IGALA integrate scholars and scholarship of diverse ranks,
> backgrounds and interests.  I would be especially interested in helping IGALA
> forge
> links with scholars of gender and sexuality in anthropology, African and
> Islamic
> studies who have an interest in language and discourse.
> Language, gender and sexuality has been the primary focus of my research for
> well
> over a decade, in both the US (gay & straight men's pitch properties) and
> Nigeria
> (men who talk "like women" in Hausa).  Linguistic topics of my research
> include the
> rhetorical and sociocultural pragmatics of morphosyntactic variation
> (agency,
> deixis), verbal art (proverbs, Islamic oaths), codeswitching and borrowing
> (Hausa/
> Arabic/English), language ideology, and intertextuality.  My interests in
> language,
> gender and sexuality crosscut my other research interests in space/cultural
> geography; religion (esp. Islam); media and performance; and political
> economy,
> esp. race, nationalism & globalization.
> I have experience teaching both undergraduates and graduates, on private and
> public campuses, in research- and teaching-oriented institutions, in
> different parts of
> the U.S. and in Nigeria.  Though I no longer have the opportunity to teach
> courses
> on language and gender per se, I infuse an awareness of language, gender and
> sexuality in virtually all my courses, including Urban Life in Africa;
> Theater and
> Performance in Africa; and Global Media, Local Cultures.
>
> Janet Holmes
>
> Janet Holmes is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of
> Wellington, where
> she teaches a variety of sociolinguistics courses, including a postgraduate
> paper
> focussing on language and gender. She is Director of the Wellington Corpus
> of
> Spoken New Zealand English and of the Language in the Workplace Project. She
> was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1994.  She has
> published on a wide range of topics including New Zealand English, language
> and
> gender, sexist language, pragmatic particles, compliments and apologies, and
> most
> recently on aspects of workplace discourse.   Her publications include a
> textbook, An
> Introduction to Sociolinguistics, a book on language and gender, Women, Men
> and
> Politeness, and an edited collection of papers Gendered Speech in Social
> Context.
> Her most recent books are the Blackwell Handbook of Language and Gender, co-
> edited with Miriam Meyerhoff,  and Power and Politeness in the Workplace co-
> authored with Maria Stubbe.
> I have many years of experience teaching language and gender courses and
> supervising postgraduate students in research in this area.  I have also
> published
> extensively in this area.  I would be happy to make this experience available
> to
> IGALA in any way that might be useful.   It may also be useful to have
> someone on
> the IGALA Advisory Committee who comes from outside Europe and the USA, as
> our
> perspective is often a little different.
>
>
> Ken Nozaki Lacy
>
> Five reasons why I'd be worthwhile as a member of the Advisory Council.
> * I'm still in graduate school.  That means a couple of things, of course.
> The first is
> that I'll have copious amounts of spare time to devote to IGALA.  The second
> is that
> I'm too young and idealistic to believe there are limits to what I can
> accomplish, yet.
> And third, in the grand scheme of things, this would rate rather highly as a
> priority for
> me.  Consider.  No tenure reviews, no family pressures, no mortgages, no
> mentorship duties.  Think back to your own halcyon days of ABD (All-But-
> Dissertation).
> * I'm a nice guy.  Granted, most of the folks in this sub-field are nice, so
> I'm not
> particularly special in this regard.  On the other hand, people rather
> bizarrely persist
> in thinking that I'm a nice guy despite the fact that I'm outspoken and
> opinionated.
> Isn't this the sort of confluence of personality traits desirable in a
> council position?
> * I'm not a n00b (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=n00b).  I've
> been
> hanging around since IGALA1, and after being a lurker and then participant,
> I'm
> intrigued by the opportunity to turn my puppy-dog enthusiasm into some
> direct,
> tangible involvement in this organization.
>
>
> Claire Maree
>
> Claire Maree currently lectures in Japanese language studies,
> multiculturalism and
> language education and gender studies at Tsuda College. She is coordinator of
> the
> Multicultural/Multilingual Education Unit within the interdepartmental
> Multicultural
> and International Cooperation Course at Tsuda.
> Claire is dedicated to the study of language, gender and sexuality issues.
> She is
> eager to work to spread the influence of this discipline in Japanese language
> and
> education studies. Her passion for the area and bilingual English/Japanese
> skills
> ensure that she will be able to assist in advising on both Japanese and
> gender
> issues, and the broader area of language and sexuality. Claire looks forward
> to
> having the opportunity to be more involved with IGALA.
>
>
> Joan Pujolar
>
> My initial research interests were centered on issues of language and
> identity in
> plurilingual societies. I became interested in gender by doing ethnography,
> that is,
> after realizing how important gender was to understand informal face-to-face
> encounters, and also as a experience of subordination which had interesting
> connections with that of cultural or linguistic minorities. In my research, I
> have sought
> to build an integrative analysis of issues of identity in terms of class,
> ethnicity and
> gender. I have studied the uses and social meanings of Catalan, Spanish and
> youth
> slangs amongst young people in Barcelona and argued that these have strong
> connections with particular strands of youth culture and gender identities
> that have a
> class component (Pujolar 1997, 2001). Now I am doing ethnographic fieldwork
> in
> courses of Catalan and Spanish for adult immigrants (mainly women) and
> analyzing
> the interplay of ethnicity, gender and linguistic ideologies in these
> contexts. (Pujolar,
> 2003c).
>
> (1997) “Masculinities in a multilingual setting”. in Johnson, S and Meinhof,
> U
> Language and Masculinity, chapter 5. London: Blackwell Publishers, 86-106.
> ISBN
> 0-631-19768-0.
> (2001) Gender, heteroglossia and power. A sociolinguistic study of youth
> culture.
> Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
> (2003a) “La construcció del gènere en la interacció informal cara a cara:
> aspectes
> teòrics i metodològics” in Estudios de Sociolingüística Vol. 4,1 (2003). SIN:
> 1576-
> 7418.
> (2003b) “Els ‘gamberrus’ i la sociolingüística del gènere” in Fernández,
> Josep-Anton
> and Chavarria, Adrià Calçasses, gallines i maricons: Homes contra la
> masculinitat
> hegemónica. Manresa: Angle Editorial. Pp. 92-107. ISBN 84-96103-21-8.
> (2003c) “Teaching language skills to immigrants in a bilingual context:
> issues of
> identity and power”, paper at the 8th Pragmatics Conference of the
> International
> Pragmatics Association. 14-18 July 2003,  Toronto, Canada.
>
>
> Jie Yang
>
> I'm a fourth year Ph. D student in the Department of Anthropology at the
> University of
> Toronto, Canada. My research focuses on language ideology, gender and
> political
> economy. I did my fieldwork at a state-owned enterprise in Beijing  from June
> 2002
> to July 2003, where I investigated the changing discourse and gender in the
> restructuring of post-Mao China. I examine the gender effects of  China's
> transformation from a centrally planned economy to a market economy by
> tracing the
> discursive construction of modernity and gender since Mao's era.
> Specifically, I
> study three generation's women workers and their strategies to construct
> their
> subjectivities as women and as workers through the everyday use of guanxi
> practices (roughly "social connections"). In my research, I also  consider
> how the
> Confucian traditions and state feminism as two conflicting forces are played
> out in
> women's unemployment and re-employment in the transition to a market
> economy.
>   I think I can bring to the conference committee current Chinese
> perspectives on
> language and feminist studies.
>
>