Ballot for Positions on IGALA Executive Committee

[Susan Ehrlich]

Dear IGALA members,

Below you will find the ballot for the election of the following positions on the IGALA Executive 
Committee: (1) Vice-President/President-Elect (2) Secretary (3) Webweaver.  There are two 
candidates for both Vice-President/President-Elect and Secretary and one candidate for 
Webweaver.  

Please return your completed ballots to me (sehrlich at yorku.ca) by Monday, February 12th 2007.  
Make sure you send the ballot to me rather than to the entire list. And, please remember that you 
must be a member of IGALA by February 12th in order for your vote to count. (Note: Membership 
is extremely good value, especially because it includes a subscription to the new Gender and 
Language Journal.) The site for joining IGALA/renewing membership is:
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60

Thanks, Susan Ehrlich, Secretary, IGALA



Vice-President/President-Elect 

______ Victoria Bergvall

______ Ingrid Piller


Victoria Bergvall is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Michigan Tech University (USA). She has 
chaired the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL) of the Linguistic Society of 
America (LSA). She received the 2004 Outstanding Conference Paper award from the Organization 
for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender for her poster/paper for the 2003 IGALA/
COSWL conference. Her publications include “The Question of Questions: Beyond Binary Thinking,” 
(with Janet Bing) in Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice (Bergvall,
Bing, & Freed, eds.), and she is presently working on a book, Genes, Gender, and Language: 
Nature, Nurture, and Ideology.


Ingrid Piller (PhD, Dresden 1995) is an applied sociolinguist, who is affiliated with the University of 
Sydney, and the University of Basel, Switzerland, where she holds the Chair of English 
Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of English as a Global Language. She is the author of two 
monographs, American Automobile Names (Essen: Blaue Eule, 1996) and Bilingual Couples Talk 
(Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002); co-editor of Multilingualism, Second Language Learning and 
Gender (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001); and her articles have appeared in journals such as 
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Estudios de Sociolingüística, International Journal of 
Bilingualism, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, and Poetics Today. She is currently 
writing a textbook on Intercultural Communication for Edinburgh University Press.



Secretary

_____  Holly Didi-Ogren

_____  Ana Cristina Ostermann


Holly Didi-Ogren has a long-standing interest in gender and language, specifically as it relates to 
power and hierarchy, and to central versus peripheral ideologies about gender and language.  She 
was able to attend her first IGALA conference in Valencia, and was inspired by the wonderful 
intellectual camaraderie of the participants.  Her geographical focus has been on Japan, though 
some day she also wishes to return to a “tangent” in her earlier professional life and work in India.   
She currently teaches Japanese language and culture at an institution of higher education in the 
United States (The College of New Jersey), in addition to developing courses on language and 
gender.  


Ana Cristina Ostermann is a Brazilian scholar with a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of 
Michigan. Her scholarly work focuses on the role of language in the construction of gender 
identity and on the discursive basis of power relations, and is guided by critical theoretical and 
methodological approaches. Her research has ranged from the analysis of media discourse, 
particularly magazines addressed to teenage females (Ostermann & Keller-Cohen, 2003), to the 
analysis of interactions with victims of gendered violence (Ostermann 2003a, 2003b) and of 
transgender identity (Borba & Ostermann, 2007). Currently, she is investigating the humanization 
process of women’s healthcare in Brazil, especially in gynecological and obstetric consultations.



Webweaver

Paul Baker

_____  Acceptable

_____  Unacceptable

Paul Baker is a senior lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster 
University. His research interests include language use by and about gay men as well as combining 
analytical approaches such as critical discourse analysis and corpus-based analysis. His books 
include Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men (2002), Public Discourses of Gay Men (2005), Using 
Corpora for Discourse Analysis (2006), Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality 
(forthcoming). He is commissioning editor for the journal Corpora, a committee member for the 
Foundation for Endangered Languages, and the web editor for the BAAL-SIG Gender and Language 
group.