Ballot for Positions on IGALA Executive Committee

Sat Jan 20 16:11:08 UTC 2007

Hi.  I actually don't receive the applications but someone will notify 
me of all members as of Feb. 5th.  Please go ahead and vote.  Susan

brancaff at GLOBO.COM wrote:
> 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.
>   