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Jessica Grieser
Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee
Education/Degree:
1 Sociolinguistics (Georgetown University)
About
Jessica Grieser is an assistant professor in the Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics division of the department of English at the University of Tennessee, where she is also a faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics. Her research focuses on the use of African American English in the linguistic expression of the intersectional identities of race, place, and social class. She is additionally interested in the discourse analysis of online argument, particularly within women's online communities and fandoms.
Current Work
Jessica Grieser is currently writing the linguistic ethnography of a rapidly-gentrifying, historically African American neighborhood in Washington, DC, which argues that ethnolinguistic repertoire (Benor 2010) and style-shifting are the primary site in which middle-class African Americans negotiate, race, place, and class identities. She is also conducting the preliminary research for an ongoing project about dialectal variation across the state of Tennessee.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Afroamerican and African studies, Phonetics, Phonology