Election of Advisory Committee members

Mon Jan 14 11:10:04 UTC 2008

I give my vote to Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

  Fatima

Jane Sunderland <j.sunderland at LANCASTER.AC.UK> a écrit :

    st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                Dear all

  I have been reminded that we shouldn’t posts attachments on this List (they take up too much space and people sometimes have trouble opening them). So here is the list of candidates pasted in. (If you’ve dealt with this, just delete.) Your vote (just one) should be sent to Ana Ostermann (ACO at unisinos.br).

  Jane

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  ADVISORY COUNCIL CANDIDATES

  Mercedes Bengoechea  Mercedes Bengoechea is Dean of the Faculty of Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain). She is also member of the Advisory Language Committee of the Instituto de la Mujer (Ministry of Social Affairs); member of the Experts Committee on Gender and Childhood for the Institute of the National Spanish Televisión (IORTV); and has been the co-ordinator of the Annual Report of the Spanish National Observatory on Gender Violence. Her research on language and gender has focused on denouncing, on the one hand, the sexist usage of the language in the Spanish media and, on the other hand, normative linguistic policies and dictionaries of Spanish. She has also led proposals for non-sexist use of Spanish. As a member of IGALA Advisory Council, she might help to promote the creation of stronger research networks of language and gender in the Spanish state, and, very particularly, to foster lobbies able to raise language and gender issues into the political
 arena.

  Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
  Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, formerly Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, is now Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely in the areas of Critical Discourse, Media and Gender Studies. Her current research interests are in Critical Social Semiotics, Gender Representation and Visual Communication. She has been working in the area of Gender and Language for many years, being one of the first researchers to introduce this area in Brazil in the 80's. In Britain, she teaches courses on Gender and Language, supervises PhD students and has helped to organise national and international conferences on this topic. As an IGALA adviser, she will promote language and gender in her own areas of research, internationally and more specifically, in Britain and in Brazil. 

  Allyson Jule
  Allyson Jule is a Canadian scholar currently a Senior Lecturer in Education at Glamorgan University, Wales, UK. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in Education (Applied Linguistics) from Roehampton University, London, UK, in 2002. Her books include: , published in 2003, is a personal account of a ten month study of one Canadian Punjabi Sikh grade-two language classroom; the edited collection,   in 2004;  (in 2006);  Language and Religious Identity, Women in Discourse (2007); and A Beginner’s Guide to Gender and Language (2008).
  Allyson Jule has been an active member of IGALA since 2002 and has attended and presented at the IGALA conferences at Lancaster, Cornell and Valencia. Her international connections with Canada and the UK as well as with Africa make her a valuable member of the IGALA community.  

     Jariah Mohd
  Jariah Mohd is an Associate Professor in the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics and Deputy Executive Director at the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. She holds a Ph.D in Sociolinguistics and teaches language and gender, pragmatics, psycholinguistics and semiotics. Her interdisciplinary research centres on feminist linguistics, gendered discourse and power issues in language and society, language and cognition, and literacy and literature in ESL. She has presented research papers at international conferences, published in international refereed journals and co-authored and published a book on Understanding Children’s Literature (2007). As an AC board member and through my Asia-Europe links and network, I will promote GAL research in Malaysia, ASEAN, SE Asia and Asia-Europe; serve on sub-committees for organizing seminars/conferences, and edit articles for its journal. I intend to link MyGALA (Malaysian Chapter of IGALA) activities and
 website to IGALA and hope to host the IGALA conference in Malaysia.

  Laurel Kamada  Dr. Laurel Kamada, professor at Aomori Akenohoshi College in Japan, is in the process of writing a book on hybrid identities and adolescent girls in Japan using a Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis approach. Born/raised in America, she has been residing in Japan for the latter half of her life. Even as an industrialized top economic world force, Japan is still a country that has only just begun to understand the meaning of the word ‘gender’ and to become aware of how gender is accomplished in language. One area in which she would really like to see IGALA develop more in coming years is in gender and language education, so that those living in countries and regions where we still have to explain the meaning of the word ‘gender’ will have a venue available (IGALA) where they can access information, support and research on curriculum building, teaching materials and teaching methodology. 

  Fatima-Zahra Lamrani
  Fatima-Zahra Lamrani, Professor in Linguistics, Department of English Studies, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco. My areas of interest are: Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, and Stylistics. My specialist area is “Courtroom Discourse”.  My doctoral dissertation deals with the discursive features which inhibit effective communication in the Moroccan criminal courtroom. I am currently working on a project entitled “Verbal Violence in  Moroccan Rape Trials and the Issue of Human Rights”. My contribution to IGALA will consist of monitoring and promoting Language and Gender research in my specialist area, “Courtroom Discourse”, as well as in my geographical area, Morocco in North Africa.

  Sonja Lanehart
  I would love to serve on the IGALA Advisory Committee. As an African American woman originally from Texas and roots in Louisiana, I have a keen interest in African American Women’s Language (AAWL) in particular due to the dearth of linguistics literature for African American women in the overall scholarship of African American Language research as well as in feminist or women’s language research in general. I think the same can be said about Spanglish for women. It is my agenda to address these overlooked areas of research and the people. To that end, I will be hosting a conference on AAWL March 2008 in San Antonio, TX, teaching a course on AAWL Spring 2008, as well as sponsoring panels on AAWL at NWAV and during Women’s History month over the next couple of years as a way to spotlight the language of these underrepresented women's groups in language research.

  Michelle Maria Lazar
  I am an Associate Professor in the English Department at the National University of Singapore. My research specializations are in critical discourse analysis, gender/sexuality, and multimodality, with special interests in media and political discourses, in which I have widely published since 1993.  Recently appointed Academic Convenor of my university’s Gender Studies program, I am in charge of developing interdisciplinary teaching and research in this field. I am a Life Member of the Association of Women for Action and Research, the first grassroots feminist organization in Singapore which raises public awareness on all matters concerning gender and social justice, and makes recommendations for change to the government. In 2006, I was involved in dialogue-cum-action plans to increase women’s political participation at local and global levels in an international meeting in Salzburg, Austria, which brought together academics, NGOs and women political leaders. I believe my
 academic and grassroots interests in issues of social justice, inclusiveness and appreciation of diversity are congruent to those of IGALA, and to which I will actively contribute. As a native to Singapore, who lives and works in the global South, I am particularly committed to the internationalization of IGALA, and to the representation of international research in the field. Professionally, I have been involved in public outreach, organizing conferences, and reviewing numerous articles on language and gender for international journals both in and outside linguistics – skills which I bring to IGALA and its activities.

  Lia Litosseliti
  I will continue to work with others to promote language and gender across specialisations or country boundaries. At the same time, I will bring my particular experience and skills (developed within this field through academic scholarship and active participation in networks) to put firmly on the agenda issues of a) research methodologies in language and gender, and b) language and gender in developing countries, particularly in Africa. I am a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at City University, London, with an active research record (e.g. authored books on Gender and Language and Focus Groups, and publications on research methodologies in language and gender), management/external roles as an Educational Development Associate at City, and a commitment to increasing visibility of language and gender issues. I have a good understanding of IGALA activities (including through my role on the journal's editorial board), and envisage contributing to these activities becoming more
 international in scope.

  Ronald Beline Mendes
  My name is Ronald Beline Mendes. I'm a Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. My research has been defined by an attempt to address the expression of intolerance towards gay men in São Paulo, especially in relation to what is perceived as gay speech. Before addressing the issues of intolerance, it´s necessary to figure out what is perceived as a gay way of speaking Portuguese, and that's what I've been working on, more specifically. In other words,  
  it's a work on perception of gendered talk, linguistic attitudes and the relations between linguistic variants and the construction and expression of social identities. In addition to an understanding of the gender and sexuality issues implicit in my research, I will also bring to the Advisory Council my  
  experience as a South American researcher, which will expand the diversity of the Council and make it even more international.

  Kimie Takahashi  I am a postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University, Australia. I have a strong interest in the area of second language learning and gender as my recently completed PhD thesis (supervised by Professors Ingrid Piller and Gerard Sullivan) investigates the link between Japanese women´s' passion for the English language as a global language and their romantic and sexual desire for western men. If elected, I'd like to encourage and promote research and publications, both in
  academia and media, by Asian scholars of non-native English backgrounds, who are often under-represented in our field. With my previous career as a web producer, I am particularly interested in supporting a multilingual IGALA website, where scholars and students can discuss
  their work and support each other in their own language. 

  Ann Weatherall  I am a Reader in Social Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. My research interests are conversation analysis (CA), discursive psychology and feminist psychology.  My publications include five books and over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. One of my first publications reported an experimental study of the semantic derogation of words for women (1993, JLSP) and a significant work is a solo-authored book (2002, Gender, Language and Discourse).  My empirical investigations have included quantitative and qualitative studies. I am currently exploring CA as a feminist language research tool. I spent a 2006/2007 sabbatical year at the University of California, Los Angeles where I began developing and utilising the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English for conversation analytic studies of psychological phenomena including gendered identities. I would work as an Antipodean representative for IGALA and would bring a
 social psychological perspective to issues relevant to the organisation.

  GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE CANDIDATES
     Jenny L Davis  I am a doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. My research interests are split between examining the linguistic negotiation of identity of individuals with multiple minority statuses and endangered language documentation, revitalization, and maintenance. With the first, my research focuses on the intersections of language, gender and sexuality, and ethnicity in two groups in the United States: the first, Two-Spirit societies—indigenous people who self define as being spiritually both male and female—and the second, the homa lusa—descendents of Native Americans and African American freedmen of the ‘Five Civilized Tribes (Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Muskogee/Creek, and Seminole). My second emphasis in endangered languages is centered around my community’s efforts to document and revitalize our language, Chickasaw, in Oklahoma. I look forward to seeing IGALA continue to grow, and am eager to help further address the needs of graduate
 students and faculty in our field.

  Lucy Jones  My ongoing PhD research into the construction of identity in a lesbian community of practice has informed my interest in language and gender. I would like to see the field become more inclusive of sexuality-based studies and, through committee membership, would encourage its representation in IGALA. Having already established a regular language and gender reading group including postgraduate researchers and academics from a range of institutions in northern England, I am keen to cultivate postgraduate involvement within IGALA to enable exchanges such as this on a wider, international scale. As an experienced student representative and chair of university-based postgraduate committees, I am confident that I could ensure that students have a voice within the discipline. By developing and encouraging postgraduate strands at IGALA conferences, and increasing participation in workshops advising on issues such as research exchanges and funding opportunities, I would
 ensure that students within language and gender have access to the best opportunities.

    Jane Sunderland
  Director of Studies, PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework and New Route PhD
  Dept. of Linguistics and English Language
  Lancaster University
  Lancs. LA1 4YT

  j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk

  For the new Gender and Language Journal (details and subscriptions), see

  http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60

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From: International Gender and Language Association [mailto:GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jane Sunderland
Sent: 08 January 2008 10:27
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Subject: Election of Advisory Committee members

  Dear all

  As you will recall, we are about to elect new members of the IGALA Advisory Council. From a previous message:

  IGALA is seeking between 5 and 8 members for the Advisory Council, to replace current Advisory Council members. We are looking for as broad a geographic spectrum as possible (in particular, non-English-dominant countries). One Advisory Council member will be a Graduate Student Representative. The other members should be able to represent key areas of gender and language research, and, together, a range of research priorities.
  Advisory Council members will be part of the IGALA Executive Committee and will attend (in person or electronically) all meetings if at all possible. The first of these will be at IGALA5 in Wellington, New Zealand (July 3-5, 2008); the next will be an e-meeting around 12 months after that. The term of office will be 3 years.
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  Also as a reminder, the ‘Job description’ of AC members is as follows:

  - monitoring and promoting language and gender research in their own specialist area within IGALA
  - monitoring and promoting language and gender research within their own geographical region
  - carrying out various tasks and serving on sub-committees or working parties of IGALA as required (for example, web-site monitoring, essay competition, local event/branch development and co-ordination, 'talking to the world' - see Minutes of last AGM on IGALA website
  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/activities.html)
  - suggesting to the IGALA Executive/Advisory Committee further IGALA-related activities
  - actively contributing to IGALA Executive/Advisory committee e-mail discussions

  and for the Graduate Student Representative

  ·        to bring issues to IGALA that are of concern and importance to graduate students
  ·        to work with other IGALA members and members of the Executive Committee to make graduate students an active and visible presence within IGALA
  ·        to facilitate graduate contributions’ to and representation at the IGALA conferences and their involvement in other professional activities
  ·        in coordination with the conference organizers and other members of the IGALA executive committee and membership, to develop one graduate student workshop at each IGALA conference on a topic or topics relevant to the professional and intellectual development of graduate students and junior academic staff/faculty
  ·        to be a member of the committee in charge of the IGALA Graduate Student Essay Competition (to be chaired by the President-Elect/Vice President)

  All paid-up members of IGALA (including the candidates) are able to vote, and every member has just one vote. Please send the name of the person you would like to vote for to Ana Ostermann, IGALA Secretary (cc. above). If you are not a member of IGALA but would like to join (and vote), please see the Link below. If your application to join IGALA is pending please let Ana know this. Remember that membership of IGALA includes a subscription to the ‘Gender and Language’ journal, now in its second successful year.
  The list of candidates is attached. As you will see, there are two candidates for the post of Graduate Student Representative. Please do not distinguish between these and the other candidates when you vote. If these candidates both receive a high number of votes it is likely that we will invite the one with the higher number to be the GSR, and the other to be an ‘ordinary’ member.
  All votes should be cast one by month (28 days) from today, i.e. by the end of Tuesday Feb. 5, 2008.
  With best wishes to all
  Jane Sunderland (IGALA President) and Vicky Bergvall (IGALA Vice President/President Elect)

  Jane Sunderland
  Director of Studies, PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework and New Route PhD
  Dept. of Linguistics and English Language
  Lancaster University
  Lancs. LA1 4YT

  j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk

  To join IGALA and become a subscriber of Gender and Language Journal, see

  http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60

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