Ballot for Positions on IGALA Executive Committee

[brancaff at GLOBO.COM]

Dear Susan,
I?ve filled out the IGALA membership form and tried to fax it many times,
dialing the number indicated at the bottom of the form. No luck. So I decided
to send the form by snail mail. I?ve used the address next to the fax number.
Can you acknowledge receiving it when it gets there. I guess should wait
for this before I am able to vote, right?
Sincerely yours,
Branca
 '>'-- Mensagem Original --
 '>'Date:         Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:52:07 -0500
 '>'Reply-To: List for the International Gender and Language Association
 '>'              <GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
 '>'From: Susan Ehrlich <sehrlich at YORKU.CA>
 '>'Subject: Ballot for Positions on IGALA Executive Committee
 '>'To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
 '>'
 '>'
 '>'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.