Ballot for Positions on IGALA Executive Committee

[Mary Bucholtz]

Dear all,

Note that to keep your ballot secret, you should "reply to From", not 
"reply to Sender" and CHECK THE ADDRESS to be sure it's correct, or simply 
cut and paste Susan's email address into a new message.

Mary

--On Monday, January 15, 2007 8:52 AM -0500 Susan Ehrlich 
<sehrlich at YORKU.CA> wrote:

> 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.



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Mary Bucholtz, Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
3607 South Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100
phone: (805) 893-5415
fax: (805) 893-7769
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/
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