Today's conversation picks up where Dr. Rohan and I left off - the catastrophizing of the pandemic, rhetoric and the response to the pandemic, words which convey little of value because we define them differently (eg, novel, flatten the curve, the new normal), and being outliers (educators who think we may have over-reacted).   

Guests:

Lelia Glass Ph.D. Coordinator of Linguistics Program, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Georgia Tech 

Dr. Lelia Glass is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the School of Modern Languages.  She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2018, where she won the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, and held a dissertation fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council for Learned Societies. Lelia works on lexical semantics (word meaning), compositional semantics (sentence meaning), pragmatics (inferences drawn in context), and sociolinguistics (how people use language in their social identity), from an empirically rich perspective, with a particular interest in how our knowledge of the (physical, social) world affects our interpretation of language. Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2018) M.A. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2014), B.A. in Linguistics, University of Chicago (2012), with honors  

Liz Rohan Ph.D. Professor of Composition and Rhetoric, University of Michigan-Dearborn 

With Gesa Kirsch, Dr. Rohan edited Beyond the Archives: Research as Lived Process (Southern Illinois Press, 2008). Her research, which reflects her ongoing interests in pedagogy, feminist research methods and America’s progressive era, has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, Pedagogy, JAEPL, Reflections, Composition Forum, Peitho, and also in several book chapters. She edited the diaries of a historical college student, John Price, that is published online in cooperation with Denison University and the Five Colleges of Ohio Digital Depository.  Education: B.A. in American Culture, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, M.A. in Writing, Depaul University-Chicago Ph.D. in English, with a concentration in Writing Studies, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign