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Stephen Mann

Associate Professor
English University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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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.

Kudos

published

Stephen Mann, English, authored the article ""Making Music in Dissonant Times: Planning and Adaptability in a Community Arts Organization amidst a Global Pandemic" in "Menard Family Initiative Brief Economic Articles: Resilience and Adaptation during the Pandemic" published on Feb. 1 by the Menard Family Initiative.

Submitted on: Feb. 22, 2022

 

named

Stephen Mann, English, was named treasurer-elect of the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA). The AQA is a section of the American Anthropological Association. AQA promotes anthropological research and education on homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender/transsexuality, and other sexual and gender identities and expressions, and their intersections with race, class, disability, nationality, colonialism, and globalization.

Submitted on: Sept. 8, 2017