Curriculum Vitae

November, 2002

Scott Fabius Kiesling

Department of Linguistics

University of Pittsburgh

2816 Cathedral of Learning

Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA

Phone: 412-624-5916

Fax: 412-624-6130

Email: kiesling@pitt.edu

Education

Ph.D., Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1996

Dissertation: Language, Gender, and Power in Fraternity Men’s Discourse

M.S., Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1992

B.A., Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1989

Fellowships

1993-1996: Georgetown University Graduate Fellowship

1993: Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Fellowship

Academic Experience

2000-present Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Linguistics.

2001-present Secondary appointment, Women's Studies Program, University of
Pittsburgh.
Secondary appointment, Global Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh.

1999-2000 Postdoctoral Researcher, Ohio State University.

1996–1999 Lecturer, University of Sydney, Australia.

1998: Contributor, Australian Linguistics Institute, University of Queensland,
Australia.

1997: Acting Director, Sydney University Phonetics Laboratory

1994-95: Instructor, Georgetown University, Department of Linguistics.

1993–1994: Teaching Assistant, Georgetown University, Department of Linguistics

Competitive Grants

2002-3 Central Research Development Fund, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, $8,641. "Pittsburgh's Linguistic Identities."

2002 Steven Manners Faculty Development Award, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, $8,641. "Pittsburgh's Linguistic Identities." Funding declined because the project was funded by the above grant.

2001 Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, $4,530. Seminar on Pittsburgh Speech in Society, to be held in March 2002

2001 Third Term Research Stipend, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, $4,000. For research activities in lieu of teaching.

2001 Hewlett International Small Grant, $1,304. University of Pittsburgh, University Center for International Studies. "Language Change and Ethnicity in Sydney, Australia"

1999 University of Sydney Research Grant Scheme, A$10,000. “Understanding the Social Meanings of Linguistic Variation in Sydney: A Focus-Group Approach.”

1998 Research Infrastructure Block Grant, Australian Reseach Council/University of Sydney, A$6,772. For the purchase of phonetics equipment.

1997-8 University of Sydney Research Grant Scheme, A$20,000. “The Strategic Use of Variation in the Discourse of Sydney Youth.”

Publications

Book

"Be Men”: Language, Masculinities, and Identity in a College Fraternity. Manuscript under revision for Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Language and Gender Series.

Articles Authored

Under review (with Toni Borowsky). The jewel highway to /uw/-fonting in Australia? Language Variation and Change.

Forthcoming. Men in Language and Woman's Place. In Language and Woman's Place: Second Edition. Robin Lakoff and Mary Bucholz (eds.). Oxford Studies in Language and Gender. New York: Oxford University Press.

In press. Hegemonic Identity-making in Narrative. In The Discursive Construction of Identities, Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin & Michael Bamberg (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

In press. “Intersections of Norms and Gender.” In Handbook on Language and Gender, Janet Homes and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

In press. “English Input to Australia.” In Transported Dialects: The Legacy of Non-standard Colonial English, Raymond Hickey (ed). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2001 "Playing the Straight Man: Displaying and Maintaining Male Heterosexuality in Discourse." In Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Robert Podesva, Sarah Roberts, and Andrew Wong (eds). Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

2001 (with Barbara Johnstone). "Steel Town Speak." Language Magazine. December 2001: 26-28

2001 “‘Now I Gotta Watch What I Say’: Shifting Constructions of Gender and Dominance in Discourse.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11:2.

2001 “Stances of Whiteness and Hegemony in Fraternity Men’s Discourse” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11:1, 101-115.

2000 “Australian English and Recent Migrant Groups.” In Varieties of English Around the World: Focus on Australia, David Blair and Michael Collins (eds.). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins.

1998 “Variation and Men’s Identity in a Fraternity.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 2:1, 69-100.

1997 “Shifting Constructions of Gender in a Fraternity.” Working Papers in Language, Gender, and Sexism, 7,1: 53-96.

1997 “Power Roles and Cultural Models in the Language of Fraternity Men.” In Gender and Belief Systems: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Natasha Warner, Jocelyn Ahlers, Leela Bilmes, Monica Oliver, Suzanne Wertheim, and Melinda Chen (eds.) Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group.

1997 “From the ‘Margins’ to the ‘Mainstream’: Gender Identity and Fraternity Men’s Discourse.” Women and Language, 20,1:13-17.

1997 “Shifting Constructions of Gender in a Fraternity.” In Proceedings of the Symposium on Language and Society Austin IV, Alice Chu, Anne-Marie Guerra, and Chantal Tetrault (eds.) Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin Linguistics Department. 279-286.

1997 “Power and the Language of Men.” In Language and Masculinity, Sally Johnson and Ulrike Meinhof (eds.) Oxford: Blackwell. 65-85.
Reprinted 2001 in The Masculinities Reader, Stephen M. Whitehead and Frank J. Barrett (eds.), Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers (Polity Press).

1996 “Men’s Identities and Patterns of Variation.” In (N)WAVEs and Means: Selected Papers from NWAVE24, (Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 3), Miriam Meyerhoff (ed.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Department. 171-196.

1996 “The (ING) variable: Patterns of variation in a fraternity.” In Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis – Selected Papers from NWAV‑23 at Stanford, Jennifer Arnold, Renee Blake, Brad Davidson, Scott Schwenter and Julie Solomon (eds.) Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 27-40.

Edited Book

Forthcoming (with Christina Paulston). Intercultural Discourse and Communication: A Reader. Blackwell Publishers.

Review Article

1999 "From Gender to Identity in Language." Australian Journal of Linguistics. Review of:

Bergvall, Victoria L., Janet M. Bing, and Alice F. Freed (eds). 1996. Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice. Harlow, Essex: Longman.

Hall, Kira and Mary Bucholtz (eds). 1995. Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge.

Holmes, Janet. 1995. Women, Men, and Politeness. Harlow, Essex: Longman.

Book Reviews

1999 Diamond, Julie, 1996, Status and Power in Verbal Interaction: A Study of Discourse in a Close-knit Social Network (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 40). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins. Journal of Sociolinguistics.

1997 Chambers, Jack, 1995, Sociolinguistic Theory, Oxford: Blackwell. Australian Journal of Linguistics 17:1, 99-103.

1997 Labov, William, 1994, Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors, Oxford: Blackwell. Australian Journal of Linguistics 17:1, 103-108.

1995 Sifianou, Maria, 1992, Politeness Phenomena in England and Greece, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics 3:2-6, 296-298.

Book Note

1995 Duran, Jane, 1994, Knowledge in context: Naturalized epistemology and sociolinguistics, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. Language 71:2, 405-406.

Invited Presentation

“Playing the Straight Man: Displaying and Maintaining Male Heterosexuality in Discourse.” Symposium on Language and Sexuality, New Ways of Analyzing Variation 28, Toronto, Ontario, October 1999.

Poster

"Language Style as Identity Construction: A Footing and Framing Approach". New Ways of Analyzing Variation 27, University of Georgia, October 1998. (Co-authored with Natalie Schilling-Estes)

Discussant

Discussant for the panel "Repositioning Masculinity as Public Display: Anthropological Perspectives," at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Franciso, CA, November 2000.

Presentations

"New varieties within new varieties: Migration and Australian English." Presented at the Ninth Meeting of the International Association of World Englishes, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Champaign-Urbana, IL, October 2002.

"Discourse of homosociality in an American fraternity 'rush' event." Presented at the Second International Gender and Language Association Conference, Lancaster, U.K., April 2002.

"The jewel highway to /uw/-fronting in Australia?" (Co-authored with Toni Borowsky) Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference, Raleigh, NC, October 2001.

"'You gon' be ma bitch boy': Hegemonic identity-making in narratives." Presented in the session "Narrative and Identity: Linguistic Devices and Strategies of Self Presentation" at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, St. Louis, February 2001.

“Dominant Stances and White Men’s Identities: Invisible Hegemony.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 1999.

“The Social Distribution of Changes in Sydney: The Interaction of Awareness, Sex, and Ethnicity.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 28, Toronto, Ontario, October 1999.

"Emerging Prestige Varieties in Sydney Australian English." New Ways of Analyzing Variation 27, University of Georgia, October 1998.

“Reproblematizing Men.” Language and Gender Workshop, Australian Linguistics Institute, Brisbane, Australia, July 1998.

“Australian English and Recent Migrant Groups.” Sixth New Zealand Language and Society Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, June 1998. Also presented at the Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, July 1998.

“The Ethnicity of Vowels in Western Sydney.” Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, September 1997.

“Intonation and Authority in a Fraternity Meeting.” University of Sydney Linguistics Department Seminar Series, September 1997.

“Men’s Talk, Men’s Identities.” Masculinities: Renegotiating Genders, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, June 1997.

“American Fraternity Men’s Worlds of Discourse.” Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Annual Conference, University of Western Sydney-Nepean, October 1996.

“Language, Gender and Power among Fraternity Men.” University of Sydney Linguistics Department Seminar Series, August 1996.

“Power Roles and Cultural Models in the Language of Fraternity Men.” Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, University of California at Berkeley, April 1996.

“Power Roles and Cultural Models in the Language of Fraternity Men.” Symposium on Language and Society Austin, University of Texas at Austin, April 1996.

“Creating a Fraternity through Discourse.” American Association of Applied Linguistics, Chicago, March 1996.

“Shifting Constructions of Gender in a Fraternity: A Case Study.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 1995.

"Men's Identities and Patterns of Variation.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 24, University of Pennsylvania, October 1995.

"Using Interactional Discourse Analysis to Explain Variation Patterns.” GLS 1995: Developments in Discourse Analysis, Georgetown University, February 1995.

"Constructing Masculinity and Power in a Fraternity.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 1994.

"Focusing on Power and Constructing Masculinities in Discourse.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 1994.

"The (ING) Variable: Patterns of Variation in a Fraternity.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 23, Stanford University, October 1994.

"Power as a Sociolinguistic Category.” Sociolinguistics Symposium 10, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, March 1994.

"Toward a Practice-Based Approach to the Notion of Power.” Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, January 1994.

"Semantic and Syntactic Change: Modality in English.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 22, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, October 1993.

"Competitive Cooperativeness and Status in Male Discourse.” Language and Gender Interface Conference, Ohio State University, July 1993.

"Competitive Cooperativeness in Male Speech.” International Sociolinguistic Conference: The Interface between Sociology and Linguistics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 1992.

"The Interaction of Institutional and Social Status in Discourse.” International Sociolinguistic Conference: The Interface between Sociology and Linguistics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 1992.

Courses taught at the University of Pittsburgh

LING 0080 Aspects of Language (Undergraduate). Fall 2000.

LING 1235/2235 Language, Gender, and Society (Undergraduate/Graduate). Fall 2000-2002.

LING 1263 Cross Cultural Communication (Undergraduate). Spring 2001-2003.

LING 1267 Aspects of Sociolinguistics (Undergraduate). Spring 2001-2002.

LING 2267 Sociolinguistics (Graduate). Fall 2001-2002.

LING 2761 Discourse Analysis. Spring 2003.

LING 3902 Directed studies for PhD students:
Rocio Fuentes, Discourse Analysis, Spring 2002

LING 2990 Independent studies for MA students:
Suzanne Harris, Advanced Sociolinguistics, Spring 2002

B.A. Honors Thesis Committee, University of Pittsburgh

Rush, Zora. Language maintenance or shift in Ukraine: The linguistic future of a post-Soviet nation? Graduated May 2002.

M.A. Commitees at the University of Pittsburgh

Eberhard, Maeve. African American attitudes towards AAVE: Conflicting ideologies in the Ebonics controversy. Second reader.

Horst, Jaime. Language planning in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. Second reader. Graduated August 2001.

Ianuzzi, Susan. Bilingual acquisition of phonology: Arabic and English. Second Reader. Graduated December 2000.

Montgomery, Jesse. Naturalistic second language acquisition as a function of the interaction between age and aptitude. Third reader. Graduated December 2001.

Robson, Virginia. The German Orthography Reform of 1996: Conflicting Arguments and Future Implications for the Language. Second reader. Graduated May 2002.

Tan, Yin-Ling. A Comparison of the discourse structure of Mandarin and Cantonese. Second reader. Graduated May 2001.

Marc Wisnosky. Humor and 'Pittsburghese.' First Reader.

Ph.D. Committees at the University of Pittsburgh

Subhadra Elka Ghosh Johnson. Mexiqueño?: A Case study of dialect contact.

Jenifer Larson-Hall. Language acquisition by Japanese speakers: Explaining the why, how, and when of adult learners' segmental success. Graduated December 2001.

University and Department service at the University of Pittsburgh

Graduate Advisor, Department of Linguistics. 2001-present.

Member, Women's Studies Steering Committee, University of Pittsburgh. 2002-present. Also served on two committees for the Women's Studies Program.

Member of Search Committee for positions in Syntax and Phonology.

Reviewer, Hewlett International Grants Competition. March, 2001. University of Pittsburgh University Center for International Studies (UCIS).

Professional Service

Member, Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America, 1997-2000. Coordinated an update of the Language and Gender Syllabi Collection in addition to normal committee duties.

Reviewed manuscripts for Language in Society, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Diachronica, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, Canadian Review of Education, Mouton de Gruyter, and Georgetown University Press.

Reviewed grant proposals for the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council.

Conferences/Workshops Organized

Co-organizer, Seminar on Pittsburgh Speech and Society. March 22-24, 2002.

Co-organizer, The Breadth and Diversity of Language and Gender Research. January 6, 2001. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting.

Co-organizer (with Jim Martin): Text, Meaning and Variation: A workshop focussing on the analysis of semantic variation in discourse using quantitative tools. December 14-15, 1998. University of Sydney.

Co-organizer, Georgetown Linguistic Society Student Conference, “Developments in Discourse Analysis,” 1994-95.

Co-organizer, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Special Student Session, “Discourse Analysis: Works in Progress,” March 1994.