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Stephen Mann
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Associate Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Stephen Mann Pronouns: He/Him/His
Associate Professor
English
Specialty area(s)
sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; American English dialects; language, gender, & sexuality; language attitudes & ideologies; folk dialectology
Current courses at UWL
Spring 2023
- ENG 332 "Introduction to Linguistics: Phrases & Sentences", M 5:30-8:15
- ENG 336 "Varieties of English", Saturday 1:10-2:05
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of South Carolina (2011)
M.A. in Linguistics, University of South Carolina (2010)
B.A. in French and Russian, La Salle University (1996)
Career
Teaching history
ENG 110 ("College Writing I")
ENG 112 ("College Writing AP")
ENG 200 ("Literature and Human Experience")
----- "Literature, Language, and Identity" (Summer 2016, Winter 2017)
ENG 330 ("History of the English Language")
ENG 331 ("Intro to Linguistics: Sounds & Words") (formerly "Introduction to Linguistics"; ENG 432/532)
ENG 332 ("Intro to Linguistics: Phrases & Sentences") (formerly "Modern English Grammars")
ENG 334 ("Language Study for Teachers")
ENG 336 ("Varieties of English")
----- "English in the Midwest" (Spring 2019)
----- "American Englishes" (Spring 2020)
----- "Research English in the Driftless Region" (Spring 2023)
ENG 338 ("Linguistics and Literature")
ENG 339 ("Topics in Linguistics") (formerly ENG 439)
----- "Language Attitudes and Ideologies" (Fall 2013)
----- "African American English" (Fall 2017)
FYS 100 ("First-Year Seminar")
----- "Bad Words, Foul Language ..." (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
UWL 100 ("First Year Seminar")
Research and publishing
2018. "Conducting research with vulnerable populations." In Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, & Gerard Van Herk (eds.), Data collection in sociolinguistics: Methods and applications, 2nd edn., 53-55. Routledge.
2016. "Rural 'rednecks' and urban 'bluebloods': The (in)compatibility of sounding gay and sounding southern." In Jennifer Cramer & Chris Montgomery (eds.), Cityscapes and perceptual dialectology: Global perspectives on non-linguists' knowledge of the dialect landscape, 73-95. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
2013. "Conducting research with vulnerable populations." In Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, & Gerard Van Herk (eds.), Data collection in sociolinguistics: Methods and applications, 50-53. Routledge.
2012. "Speaker attitude as a predictive factor in listener perception of gay men's speech." Journal of Language and Sexuality 1. 205-229.
2011. “Drag queens’ use of language and the performance of blurred gendered and racial identities.” Journal of Homosexuality 58. 793-811.
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