Election of Advisory Committee members: Reminder 1
Jane Sunderland
j.sunderland at LANCASTER.AC.UK
Sun Jan 27 20:47:36 UTC 2008
Dear all IGALA members
Just a reminder that the last date for voting is Feb. 5, 2008. If you
are a member, and haven’t done so, please do take a few minutes to read
the descriptions below and then cast your vote. Many members have voted
already, but many of you have not done so yet. We know it’s difficult
having just one vote when there are so many good candidates (and will be
revisiting this situation for future elections), but this is where we
are now.
Best wishes
Jane
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
HYPERLINK "mailto:j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk"j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk
For the new Gender and Language Journal (details and subscriptions), see
HYPERLINK
"http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60"http://www.equinoxp
ub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60
-----Original Message-----
From: International Gender and Language Association
[mailto:GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jane Sunderland
Sent: 14 January 2008 09:15
To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Election of Advisory Committee members
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 (HYPERLINK "mailto:ACO at unisnos.br"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
HYPERLINK "mailto:j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk"j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk
For the new Gender and Language Journal (details and subscriptions), see
HYPERLINK
"http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60"http://www.equinoxp
ub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60
-----Original Message-----
From: International Gender and Language Association
[mailto:GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jane Sunderland
Sent: 08 January 2008 10:27
To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
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
HYPERLINK
"http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/activities.html"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
HYPERLINK "mailto:j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk"j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk
To join IGALA and become a subscriber of Gender and Language Journal,
see
HYPERLINK
"http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60"http://www.equinoxp
ub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60
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