Clmallinson

I am Assistant Professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in Baltimore, Maryland. A North Carolina native, I received a B.A. in Sociology and German from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 and an M.A. in English with a concentration in sociolinguistics from North Carolina State University in 2002. In 2006, I earned a Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology, with concentrations in sociolinguistics and social inequality, from North Carolina State University.

My research and publications investigate the social contexts of English language variation, particularly with regard to region, ethnicity, social class, and gender, and I have conducted extensive field research in Appalachia and throughout North Carolina, as well as in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. My books, Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools and We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom, co-authored with Anne H. Charity Hudley of the College of William and Mary, are published in the Teachers College Press Multicultural Education Series (2011, 2013). I am also the co-editor of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications (Routledge, 2013). I work with K-12 educators from public and independent schools throughout the U.S. in lectures, workshops, and partnerships that focus on the dynamics of language and culture in classroom contexts. For more information, please visit my websites, http://christinemallinson.com and http://baltimorelanguage.com.