Lal Zimman[lɑɫ ˈzɪmn̩ ]Department of Linguistics
South Hall 3421
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100
zimman@linguistics.ucsb.edu
http://www.lalzimman.com/

RESEARCH INTERESTSSociocultural linguistics; trans linguistics; language, gender, race, and sexuality; sociophonetics; language, identity &embodiment; pronouns; language and social justice; speech-language pathology; inclusive language & linguistic activism.
ACADEMIC POSITIONSCurrent
20202015-2020
20152013-

Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Affiliated Faculty in Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
General Editor, Studies in Language, Gender, and Sexuality, Oxford University Press

Previous appointments
2017, 2019
Instructor (by invitation), Language, Gender & Sexuality, LSA Summer Institute (U Kentucky, UC Davis)
2014-2015
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
2013-2014
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Reed College2013 (spring) Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Certificate in Culture, Language, and Social Practice
Dissertation: Voices in Transition: Testosterone, Transmasculinity, and the Gendered Voice among Female-toMale Transgender People
Committee: Kira Hall (chair), Rebecca Scarborough, J. Andrew Cowell, Barbara Fox & Donna Goldstein

Visiting Student Researcher, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institutes: MIT/Harvard (2005), Stanford (2007) & UC Berkeley (2009)
M.A. English (Linguistics concentration), San Francisco State University
B.A. Philosophy, San Francisco State University

PUBLICATIONS

Books, edited volumes & special issues
under contract An Introduction to Trans Linguistics [textbook]. Archie Crowley, J. Calder and Lal Zimman. Wiley.
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Cultivating Trans Linguistics: Creativity and Contestation [special issue]. Lal Zimman, Cedar Brown, anddeandre miles-hercules. Language and Gender.
2014
Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality [edited volume]. Oxford
University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937295.001.0001. Lal Zimman, Jenny
Davis and Joshua Raclaw (eds.).
Articles and book chapters
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Introduction: Cultivating trans linguistics: Creativity and contestation. Lal Zimman, Cedar Brown, anddeandre miles-hercules. Language and Gender.
forthcoming“That 3-word ultimatum”: The relationship escalator and normative romance in metalinguistic commentary
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about I love you. Aris Keshav and Lal Zimman. Journal of Language and Sexuality.
What is a gendered voice? Intersectional perspectives on ethics, empiricism, and epistemologies in thesociophonetics of gender. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 58.
Beyond Pronouns 101: Linguistic advocacy for trans-inclusive language in the college classroom. Lal
Zimman and Cedar Brown. In Anne Charity Hudley, Christina Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz, Inclusion
in Linguistics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197755303.003.0016.
Current norms and best practices for collecting and representing sex/gender in linguistics: Towards ethicaland inclusive methodologies. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
9(1). Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Marina Zhukova, and Lal Zimman.
https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5668.
Trans language activism and intersectional coalitions [invited]. Lead Discussion Article for Dialogue Series.
Journal of Sociolinguistics 28:3-8. http://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12661.
Language, gender, race, and sexuality: Intersectional perspectives. For Alessandro Duranti, RachelGeorge, and Robin Conley Riner (eds.), The New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119780830.ch29.
Beyond binary gender: creaky voice, gender, and the variationist enterprise. Kara Becker, Sameer ud
Dowla Khan, and Lal Zimman. Language Variation and Change 34(2):215-238.
Beyond the cis gays’ cis gaze: The need for a trans linguistics. Gender and Language 13(3):423-429.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/genl.20883.
Innovation in speech-language pathology research and writing: Transdisciplinary theoretical and ethicalperspectives on cultural responsiveness. David Azul and Lal Zimman. International Journal of SpeechLanguage Pathology 24(5):460-471.
Transgender language, transgender moment: Toward a trans linguistics. In Rusty Barrett and Kira Hall
(Eds.), The Oxford Handbook in Language and Sexuality. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
Gender diversity and the voice. In Judith Baxter & Jo Angouri (Eds.), The Handbook of Language, Gender,
and Sexuality (69-89). New York: Routledge.
Lexical change as sociopolitical change in trans and cis identity labels: New methods for the corpus
analysis of internet data. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 25(2): Article 17.
https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol25/iss2/17/. Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth.
How we got here: Short-scale change in identity labels for trans, cis, and non-binary people in the 2000s.
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 5(1):499-513. Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth.
https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/4728.
Trans self-identification and the language of neoliberal selfhood: Agency, power, and the limits ofmonologic discourse. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 256(1):147-175.
https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-2016.
Pronouns and possibilities: Transgender language activism and reform. In Netta Avineri, Robin Conley,
Laura R. Graham, Eric Johnson & Jonathan Rosa (Eds.), Language and Social Justice: Case Studies on
Communication & the Creation of Just Societies. Routledge. 176-183.
Transgender voices: Insights on identity, embodiment, and the gender of the voice. Language andLinguistics Compass 12(7):e12284. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12284.
Language in the social world. In Carol Genetti (ed.), How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language
and Linguistics. New York: Cambridge University Press. 260-287. Mary Bucholtz and Lal Zimman.
Working with trans communities. For Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, and Gerard Van Herk (Eds.), Data
Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge. 49-52.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315535258-10.
Trans people’s linguistic self-determination and the dialogic nature of identity. In Evan Hazenberg &Miriam Meyerhoff (Eds.), Representing Trans: Linguistic, Legal, and Everyday Perspectives.
Wellington, New Zealand: Te Herenga Waka University Press [as Victoria University Press]. 226-248.
Variability in /s/ among transgender speakers: Evidence for a socially-grounded account of gender andsibilants. Linguistics 55(5):993-1019. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0018.
Transgender language reform: Some challenges and strategies for promoting trans-affirming, genderinclusive language. Journal of Language and Discrimination 1(1):84-105. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jld.33139.

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2017dGender as stylistic bricolage: The contextual production and perception of gender in the voices oftransgender speakers. Language in Society 46(3):339-370.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404517000070.
Sociolinguistic agency and the gendered voice: Metalinguistic negotiations of vocal masculinization
among female-to-male transgender speakers. In Anna Babel (Ed.), Awareness and Control in
Sociolinguistic Research. New York & Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 253-277.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139680448.013.
Language, gender, and sexuality. In Mark Aronoff (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York:
Oxford University Press. Lal Zimman and Kira Hall. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0109.
Transmasculinity and the voice: Gender assignment, identity, and presentation. In Tommaso Milani (Ed.),
Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations. New York: Routledge. 197219.
Facebook, the gender binary, and third-person pronouns [essay]. In Alice Northover (Ed.), The OUPblog
Tenth Anniversary Book. New York: Oxford University Press. 137-142.
Boycunts and bonus holes: Discourses about transmasculine bodies and the sexual productivity ofgenitals. Journal of Homosexuality 61(5): 673-690. Elijah Edelman and Lal Zimman.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2014.870438.
The discursive construction of sex: Remaking and reclaiming the gendered body in talk about genitals
among trans men. In Lal Zimman, Joshua Raclaw, and Jenny Davis (eds.), Queer Excursions:
Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press. 13-34.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937295.003.0002.
Opposites attract: Retheorizing binaries in language, gender, and sexuality. In Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis,
and Joshua Raclaw (eds.), Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, andSexuality. Oxford University Press. 1-12. Jenny Davis, Lal Zimman, and Joshua Raclaw.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937295.001.0001.
Hegemonic masculinity and the variability of gay-sounding speech: The perceived sexuality of transgendermen. Journal of Language & Sexuality 2(1):5-43. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.2.1.01zim.
Language, embodiment, and the “third sex.” In Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas (eds.), Language and
Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 166-178. Lal Zimman and Kira Hall.
Female-to-male transsexuals and gay-sounding voices: A pilot study. Colorado Research in Linguistics
22(1). https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/cril/article/view/299/275.
“The other kind of coming out”: Transgender people and the coming out narrative genre. Gender &Language 3(1):53-80. http://www.doi.org/10.1558/genl.v3i1.53.
[Reprinted in 2018 in Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality, edited by Tommaso Milani.
Sheffield, UK & Bristol, CT: Equinox. 124-147.]

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Encyclopedia entries, blog posts & short essays
2020eSociophonetics. In James Stanlaw (Ed.), Asif Agha (section Ed.), The International Encyclopedia ofLinguistic Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786093.iela0363.
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International Phonetic Alphabet. In James Stanlaw (Ed.), Asif Agha (section Ed.), The International
Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786093.iela0179.
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Two legal sexes aren’t enough: Why governments should recognize non-binary bodies and identities [blogpost]. Gender & Society Blog (solicited by editors).
https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/two-legal-sexes-arent-enough-why-governmentsshould-recognize-non-binary-bodies-and-identities/.
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Transsexuality. In Nancy A. Naples (Ed.), Tom Boellstorff (section Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Gender and Sexuality Studies. Also published online at
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss105/abstract.
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Gender and the voice [essay]. In Laura Erickson-Schroth (Ed.), Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource
Guide for the Transgender Community. New York: Oxford University Press. 127.
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Biology, socialization, and identity: Accounting for the voices of female-to-male transsexuals. eLanguage[“extended abstract”; proceedings from the 2008 LSA Meeting].

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Institutional reports and statements
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LSA Statement on Legislating Pronouns [statement approved by LSA Executive committee. LinguisticSociety of America.
https://www.lsadc.org/Files/Advocacy/202311_LSA_Statement_on_Legislating_Pronouns.pdf
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Trans+ at UC Santa Barbara: Report on a 2020 Survey (~30,000 words). University of California, Santa
Barbara. Lal Zimman, Cedar Brown, Julia Leary, Brooke English, Jordan Tudisco, Aris Keshav, Forest
Stuart, and Alice Blank.
2022cTrans+ at UC Santa Barbara: Summary Report (~9,500 words). University of California, Santa Barbara. Lal
Zimman, Cedar Brown, Julia Leary, Brooke English, Jordan Tudisco, Aris Keshav, Forest Stuart, andAlice Blank.
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Guidelines for Avoiding Linguistic Misgendering in Professional Communications. Sunny Ananthanarayan,
Evan Bradley, Kirby Conrod, Archie Crowley, J Inscoe, Lex Konnelly, and Lal Zimman.
https://www.lsadc.org/guidelines_for_avoiding_misgendering.
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LSA Statement Against Linguistic Misgendering. Sunny Ananthanarayan, Evan Bradley, Kirby Conrod,
Archie Crowley, J Inscoe, Lex Konnelly, and Lal Zimman.
https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?contentid=197.
Corpora & applications
2021d
TransLiveCorpus [dataset]. GitHub (http://github.com/wsh/TransLiveCorpus). Will Hayworth and Lal
Zimman.
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livecorpus [Python application]. GitHub (http://github.com/wsh/TransLiveCorpus). Will Hayworth and Lal
Zimman.
Book reviews & abstracts
2023c
Review of Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis, Angela Zottola [invitedbook review]. Journal of Pragmatics 217:153-155.
2015c
Acoustic correlates of creaky voice in English [abstract]. Sameer ud Dowla Khan, Kara Becker, and Lal
Zimman. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137(4):2267.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4920276.
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Voice quality variation and gender [abstract]. Kara Becker, Sameer ud Dowla Khan, and Lal Zimman.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 136(4):2295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4900303.
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Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch: A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans, Ikuko
Patricia Yuasa [book note]. Language in Society 40(2):251-252.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S004740451100011X.
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Review of Ethnographic Fieldwork, Jan Blommaert and Jie Dong. LINGUIST LIST 22.1330.
http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-1330.html.
2007aReview of Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts., Judith Baxter (ed.). Gender & Language
1(2):327-334. http://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v1i2.327.
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
Fellowships
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Awards
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Ian Gordon Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington. September.

Arnold Zwicky Award, Linguistic Society of America.
SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement for “New directions in LGBTQ+ Linguistics: Commemorating theLSA Special Interest Group on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics” at the Annual Meeting of the LinguisticSociety of America.
LGBTQ Faculty Engagement Award, awarded by the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity at
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Anthropology for Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality.
Outstanding Teacher Award, awarded by Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority at the CU Boulder.
Graduate Part-Time Instructor Teaching Excellence Award, Finalist, awarded by the Graduate School at
the CU Boulder.

Research grants
2018
Hellman Family Fellowship, awarded through nomination by UC Santa Barbara for fieldwork with transpeople of color in California.
2015-2018
Academic Senate Research Grant, awarded by the UC Santa Barbara Academic Senate to support a
project focused on the speech of transgender people of color in California.
2013-2014
Stillman-Drake Research Grant, awarded by Reed College to support a collaborative sociolinguistic andarticulatory study (with Kara Becker and Sameer ud Dowla Khan) of young women’s and men’s voices
during the 13-14 academic year.
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Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, awarded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for 18 months of ethnographic
and sociophonetic fieldwork among trans masculine people in San Francisco, CA in 2010-11.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate courses•
Introduction to Language, Culture & Society (Reed: S14)•
Language and Culture (UCSB: S19)•
Sociocultural Linguistics (UCSB: W16, W18, F21)•
Discourse (Reed: F13)•
Language, Gender and Sexuality/Language and Gender (UCSB: F16, W19, S21; Stanford: S13; CU: Su10)•
Queer Linguistics (Reed: F13)•
Introduction to Phonetics (UCSB: F15)•
Sociophonetics (UCSB: W17, W19)•
Ethnographic Sociophonetics (Reed: S14)•
Speech-Language Pathology and Social Justice (UCSB: S20)•
Gender and Race in the Language of Drag (UCSB: W21)•
Advanced Sociolinguistics (Victoria University of Wellington, Sept 2024, 2 week intensive, with Natalia Beliaeva)•
Pronouns and Possibilities: Linguistic Perspectives on Transgender Language [Honors seminar] (UCSB: F24)
Graduate Courses•
Foundations of Sociocultural Linguistics (UCSB: S18)•
Language, Gender & Sexuality (UCSB: S16, W17; LSA Institute 17 & 19)•
Trans Linguistics•
Sociophonetics (UCSB: S17, W19)•
Methods in Sociocultural Linguistics (UCSB: S21)•
Language and Gender Transgression (UCSB: W18, S18)
ACADEMIC TALKS
Major plenary and keynote talks
2022“What is a ‘(fe)male voice’? Intersectional perspectives on ethics, empiricism, and epistemologies in thesociophonetics of gender.” Chicago Linguistics Society 58. April 23.
2021“‘I know that she’s a they’: Trans pronominal epistemologies in thinking, knowing, and talking about
gender identity” [plenary]. International Gender and Language Association 11. Queen Mary University of
London. June 23.
2019“Sociolinguistic justice and transgender lives” [annual colloquium talk]. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan. January 18.
2018“Voicing (trans)gender identity: Rethinking the relationship between gendered identities, bodies, and thevoice” [plenary/keynote]. UC Davis Symposium on Language Research. May 25.
2018“(Trans)Gender(ed) pasts, presents, and futures: Sketching a trans linguistics through three decades ofZimman6
research on language and trans experience” [plenary/keynote]. Lavender Languages and Linguistics 25,
April 20.

Colloquia & invited talks (not at home institution)
2023“’She wanna blame it on the edit’: The raciogendered politics of interaction on (and off) RuPaul’s Drag
Race.” Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC) Group, UCLA. May 17.
2023“What is a ‘(fe)male voice’? Intersectional and trans-affirming approaches to the sociophonetics ofgender.” Department of Linguistics, New York University. April 28.
2023“What is a ‘(fe)male voice’? Intersectional and trans-affirming approaches to the sociophonetics ofgender.” Department of English, North Carolina State University. April 12.
2021“Pronouns in the classroom setting.” Webinar, “The LSA Statement Against Linguistic Misgendering:
Review and Practical Applications.” Linguistic Society of America. November 12.
2020“Normativity in normalization: Methodological challenges in the (automated) analysis of vowels among
non-binary speakers.” Webinar, “New directions in LGBTQ+ Linguistics: Commemorating the LSA Special
Interest Group on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics.” Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
deandre miles-hercules and Lal Zimman.
2020“Transforming a discipline: Why we need a trans linguistics.” Abralin Ao Vivo – Linguists Online, Brazil.
July 28.
2020“Pronouns and possibilities: Transgender language activism and reform.” New York University School ofLaw, OUTLaw Trans Week of Action. April 16.
2019“Theorizing sex, gender & the voice in quantitative sociolinguistics.” Language Variation and ChangeGroup, UC Berkeley. November 7.
2019“From discourse to voices and back again: Gender, embodiment, & a discursive theory of the voice.”
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University. January 29.
2019“’This motheri may not have accepted that theiri child is queer...’: The expanding scope of singular they.”
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University. January 28.
2018“Gender, pitch, and voice quality through the lens of transgender speakers.” Experimental andTheoretical Advances in Prosody 4, October 13.
2018“Towards a trans linguistics: Rethinking language, gender, and sexuality.” CSLS Lecture Series on
Language and Sexuality, Universität Bern (Switzerland). October 2.
2018“Voicing (trans)gender identity: Rethinking the relationship between gendered identities, bodies, and thevoice.” Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley. February 15.
2016“From flesh to self: On the transgender nexus of language, embodiment & identity.” Women’s, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies Colloquium, the Ohio State University. October 26.
2015“Gender politics & linguistic activism in English-speaking trans communities.” Invited talk, Trans(Re)Presentations. Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). November 27.
2015“Styling the gendered voice: Challenges from transgender voices.” Department of Linguistics, UC Santa
Barbara. January 29.
2014“Trans-versing the linguistic divide: Voices, genders, and trans identities.” Department of Applied
Linguistics, Portland State University. April 14.
2013“Gender as stylistic bricolage: Trans masculinity and the gendered voice.” Department of Linguistics,
Reed College. February 11.
2012“Language, technology, and the body.” Department of Communication Studies, University of San
Francisco. November 5.
2012“Language & gender in the English classroom.” Department of English, Bloomsburg University. February
17.
Colloquia, public lectures, & other invited talks at home institution
2020
Co-Presenter, “A roadmap for inclusion in sociocultural linguistics” [colloquium]. Department ofLinguistics, UC Santa Barbara. Anne Charity-Hudley, Lal Zimman, Tracy Conner, Kendra Calhoun, Jamaal
Muwwakkil, deandre miles-hercules, A.M. Keshav, Joyhanna Garza. April 16.
2018“The politics of transgender language reform.” UC Santa Barbara Humanities Decanted series. May 29.
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Gender-Inclusive Language Instruction in a Gender-Diverse Campus Community.” May 24.
Speaker, “Language matters: Language & identity as everyday politics.” Panel, “Identity Politics in
Democracy.” Day of Democratic Education, UC Santa Barbara. January 18.
Interviewer, An interview with CeCe McDonald and Jac Gares [interviewer]. Trans Media Series, CarseyWolf Center, UC Santa Barbara.
“The language of trans inclusion: A conversation about linguistic strategies for higher education andbeyond” [colloquium] Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara. April 23.
“Transgender linguistic practices: Voices, genders, and identities.” Gender Consortium Speaker Series,
Reed College. March 8.
“Trans men and gay-sounding voices: Insights on gender and sexuality.” Socio Rap Speaker Series,
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University. April 21.
“Explaining gay-sounding voices: Trends, insights, and future directions” [colloquium]. Department ofLinguistics, University of Colorado. March 16.
“Coming out as transgender: Another look at the coming out narrative genre” [colloquium]. Departmentof Linguistics, University of Colorado. March 7.

Refereed conference presentations
2023“’She done already done had hers’s’: Anti-Black legacies and trans-affirming futuresin the language of
RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Lavender Languages and Linguistics 29. March 11.
2022“’She done already done had hers’s’: Anti-Blackness and trans affirmation in the language of RuPaul’sDrag Race.” 121st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 11.
2022“’She done already done had hers’s’: Anti-Blackness and trans affirmation in the language of RuPaul’sDrag Race.” 121st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 11.
2022"Language, gender, race, and sexuality: Intersectional perspectives." 121st Annual Meeting of theAmerican Anthropological Association. November 11.
2022“Beyond Pronouns 101: Complexifying pedagogical advice for trans-inclusive language.” Cedar Brown
and Lal Zimman. 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. April 7.
2022“Beyond Pronouns 101: Complexifying pedagogical advice for trans-inclusive language.” Cedar Brown
and Lal Zimman. 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. April 7.
2022“’Critics,’ ‘boosters’ and the politics of linguistic change: A computational analysis of the lexicon in an
online trans community.” Cedar Brown and Lal Zimman. 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society ofAmerica. January 8.
2021“Dear Prudence, ‘This motheri may not have accepted that theiri child is queer…’: The expanding scope of
singular they.” Lavender Languages and Linguistics 27. San Francisco. May 21.
2020“How we got here: Short-scale change in identity labels for trans, cis, and non-binary people in the
2000s.” Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth. 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New
Orleans, LA. January 4.
2019“Normativity in normalization: Methodological challenges in the analysis of vowels among non-binary
speakers.” deandre miles-hercules and Lal Zimman. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48. Eugene, OR.
October 12.
2019“Listening to trans+ voices (part 2 of 2): Envisioning a trans linguistics.” 93rd Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America. New York City. January 5.
2019“Listening to trans+ voices (part 1 of 2): Trans-inclusive theory and practice for research on sex, gender,
and the voice.” 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York City. January 4.
2018“Pronouns and possibilities: Transgender language activism and reform.” SLA Presidential Conversationon Language and Social Justice. 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San
Jose, CA. November 17.
2018“Operationalizing discourse stance: Indexical paradoxes and circularities.” 117th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA. November 16.
2018“Reimagining linguistics: Toward social justice in the discipline and the academy.” Mary Bucholtz and Lal
Zimman. 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA. November 16.
2018“Disambiguating and denaturalizing the voice in sociolinguistics: Toward better theory and practicesurrounding the phonetics of sex and gender.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47. New York University.

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2018“Lexical change as sociopolitical change in talk about transgender bodies: New methods for the corpus
analysis of internet data.” Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47. New York
University.
“Sex, gender, normativity, and attention to speech: Intra-speaker gendered phonetic variation amongtransgender speakers.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
November 5.
“Creaky voice beyond binary gender.” With Sameer ud Dowla Khan & Kara Becker. Annual Meeting of
the American Dialect Society. Austin, TX. January 6.
“Operationalizing stance: Affective stance in a pervasively creaky transgender speaker.” 91st Annual
Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Austin, TX. January 7.
“Engendering the sexed voice: The somatechnics of trans vocal productions.” 115th Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, MN. November 19.
“Language and embodiment: What can linguistics do for trans studies?” Trans* Studies Conference.
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. September 10.
“Language and agency in a trans(itional) moment: The politics of linguistic choice in transgendercommunities” International Gender and Language Association 9. City University of Hong Kong. May 19.
“Trans masculine linguistic styles and the gendered embodiment of neoliberal selfhood.” With Elijah
Edelman. 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO. November 19.
“The acoustics of perceived creaky voice in American English.” Sameer ud Dowla Khan, Kara Becker, Lal
Zimman. 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Jacksonville, FL. November 3.
“Creak as disengagement: Gender, affect, and the iconization of voice quality.” New Ways of Analyzing
Variation 44. University of Toronto. October 25.
“Creaky voice in a diverse gender sample: Challenging ideologies about sex, gender, and creak in
American English.” With Kara Becker & Sameer ud Dowla Khan. NWAV 44. University of Toronto.
October 25.
“The larynx.” 113th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.
December 4.
“Agency and the gendered voice among female-to-male transgender speakers.” International Gender &Language Association 8. Vancouver, Canada. June 6.
“Publicly trans and trans publics: Visibility and trans masculinities.” With Elijah Edelman. 112th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. November 21.
“Contextual variation in gendered style among trans men.” NWAV 42. U. of Pittsburgh & Carnegie
Mellon. Pittsburgh, PA. October 20.
“Agency and sociophonetic variation in the metalinguistic commentary of trans men.” Lavender
Languages & Linguistics XX. American University, Washington, D.C. February 16.
“Perceived gender in context: Gendered style among transgender speakers.” 87th Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America. Boston, MA. January 5.
“Stylistic context and perceptions of the gendered voice: Transgender speakers engaged in phonetic
bricolage.” 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA.
November 17.
“Transmasculinity and phonetic bricolage.” Lavender Languages & Linguistics XIX. American University.
February 12.
“The social basis of gendered phonetic styles: Changes in transmasculine voices.” 86th Annual Meeting of
the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, OR. January 6.
“Voicing gender normativity: Clashes and alignments between speech therapists and transgenderspeakers.” 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Montréal, Canada.
November 20.
“Performing the gendered voice: Variability in the realization of /s/ among transmasculine speakers.”
NWAV 40. Georgetown University. October 28.
“Challenging biological determinism in the phonetics of gender: Evidence from transmasculine
speakers.” 3rd Conference on Culture, Language & Social Practice. University of Colorado, Boulder.
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“The discursive construction of sex.” 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
New Orleans, LA. November 18.
“Language socialization as a life-long process: Gender change across the individual lifespan.” Language,
Culture & History Conference. University of Wyoming, Laramie. July 2.
“Gendered language socialization and the voices of transsexual men.” Lavender Languages & Linguistics
XVII. American University, Washington, D.C. April 17.
“Biology, socialization, and identity: Accounting for the voices of female-to-male transsexuals.” 84th
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Baltimore, MD. January 8.
“Perceived sexual orientation and gender normativity: What do gay men, nerds, and female-to-maletranssexuals have in common?” NWAV 38. University of Ottawa. October 24.
“Identity, socialization, and gay-sounding voices.” 2nd Conference on Culture, Language & Social
Practice. University of Colorado, Boulder. October 4.
“One of these things is not like the others: Why power matters for the study of gay-sounding voices.” 83rd
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, CA. January 9.
“Talking like a real man: Discourses of language and masculinity among transgender men.” 107th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. November 20.
“‘She’s just a high-maintenance bitch’: Interpersonal drama & discourse continuity in reality television.”
Arizona Linguistics & Anthropology Symposium. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. May 10.
“Contesting gender, (re)constructing sex: Semantic variation in transgender communities.” Lavender
Languages & Linguistics XV. American University, Washington, D.C. February 17.
“Institutionally coerced narratives and power in transgender research.” 106th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. November 29.
“Revisiting the closet: Transgender narratives of identity, coming out, and disclosure.” 1st Conference on
Culture, Language & Social Practice. University of Colorado, Boulder. October 6.
“Who’s coming out and whose coming out? Transgender people and the coming out paradigm.”
Lavender Languages & Linguistics XIV. American University, Washington, D.C. February 10.
“Gendered language in a female-to-male transgender community of practice.” Lavender Languages &Linguistics XIII. American University, Washington, D.C. February 12.

Conference posters
2016“Acoustic correlates of perceived creaky voice in a controlled sample of American English.” With Sameer
ud Dowla Khan and Kara Becker. 90th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, DC,
January 9.
Workshops & panels
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Co-Presenter, “’No more Pronouns 101’: Complex challenges in trans-affirming classrooms” [forconference attendees]]. Lal Zimman and Cedar Brown. Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social
Organization.
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Presenter, “Linguistic Justice in and Beyond the Classroom: Language, gender, and sexuality scholars on
language advocacy” [panelist]. Writing and Media Center, Iowa State University. November 4.
2019
Co-Presenter, “A roadmap for inclusion in sociocultural linguistics” [for conference attendees]. New Waysof Analyzing Variation 48. Anne Charity-Hudley, Lal Zimman, Tracy Conner, Kendra Calhoun, Jamaal
Muwwakkil, deandre miles-hercules, A.M. Keshav, Joyhanna Garza. October 10.
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Co-presenter & co-organizer, “Advancing LGBTQ+ issues in linguistics and beyond: Outreach andadvocacy” [for institute attendees]. With Tyler Kibbey. Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, UC
Davis. July 10.
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Presenter, “Trans-inclusive language reform and changing interactional norms” [for conference
attendees]. Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization. May 17.
2019
Presenter, “Queer voices: A linguistic workshop” [for UCSB students & community members]. Pride Week,
UC Santa Barbara. April 10.
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Presenter, “Trans-inclusive language” [for HBCU student participants]. Increasing Diversity in the Linguistic
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and the UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Linguistics. June 26.
“Ten Years of a Coalition in Sociocultural Linguistics: Contemporary and Future Directions” [roundtable].
116th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. December 2.
“Digital Sexualities: Negotiating, Constructing, and Selling (A)sexual Selves Online” [panel discussant].
116th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. December 1.
Panel member, “Transgender health care” [panel participant] Student Health Services, UC Santa Barbara.
June 6.
Co-presenter & co-organizer, Workshop series (3 workshops), “‘Don’t Gender Me’: Strategies for GenderInclusive Language Instruction in a Gender-Diverse Campus Community.” With Angineh
Djavadghazaryans & C. Dolan, UC Santa Barbara. May 16, 24, & 30.
Presenter, “Language activism, political correctness, and social justice” [workshop for students]. San RafaelHall, UC Santa Barbara. May 4.
“Professional Divides: Journalists & Anthropologists in Conversation about Language, Gender &Representation” [roundtable]. 115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Minneapolis, MN. November 19.
Presenter, “Language issues in trans communities” [workshop for students]. Rainbow House Dormitory,
UC Santa Barbara. May 12.
Facilitator, student workshops: “Language and trans identity/community/politics,” “Trans masculine
identities” and “Mixed / other racial identities.” T*Camp. January 9.
“Constructing and Constraining: Considerations of Agency in Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research”[panel discussant]. 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO.
November 21.
Co-presenter, “Teaching trans: Identities, rights, visibility, action” [workshop for faculty & staff]. With
Rachel Gloger and Emmie Matsuno. Organized by the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity,
UC Santa Barbara. August 31.
Presenter, faculty workshop: “Trans* inclusion in the college classroom: A workshop for faculty.”
Organized by the Multicultural Resource Center and Office for Institutional Diversity, Reed College.
January 27; April 28.
Presenter. “Workshop on transmasculine voices.” The Pacific Center, Berkeley, CA. January 23.
“Grammar in the classroom: A linguistic perspective on teaching academic English.” Organized by the
Graduate Teacher Program, University of Colorado, Boulder. October 7.
Presenter. “Gender & the voice: A workshop for transmasculine people.” TRANS: THRIVE, San Francisco.
October 28.

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Panel Co-organizer, “Queer and trans digital modalities.” 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society ofAmerica. New Orleans. January 4. With Tyler Kibbey.
Panel Co-organizer, “Interrogating Injustice in the Discipline and the Academy.” 117th Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA. With Mary Bucholtz.
Panel Co-organizer, “Language, Power, and Materiality in Trans* Communities,” Trans* Studies
Conference. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. September 10. With Jenny L. Davis.
Panel Co-organizer, “Sounds like Embodiment: Sound and the Material Body.” 115th Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, MN. November 19. With Tyanna Slobe.
Panel Organizer, “Voices in Movement: Phonetic Border Crossings,” 111th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA, November 18.
Chair & Co-Organizer, “Transforming Trans Linguistics.” Lavender Languages and Linguistics XIV,
Washington, DC, February 10. With Elijah Edelman.

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Conference Co-Organizer, 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture, Language and Social Practice(CLASP), University of Colorado, October 5-7.

RECENT SELECTED SERVICE
Peer reviewing
American Anthropologist, American Speech, Feminist Studies, Gender and Language, GLBT Family Studies, Journal of
Language and Discrimination, Journal of Language and Sexuality, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Sociolinguistics,
Language and Linguistics Compass
Abstract reviewing
International Gender and Language Association, Linguistic Society of America, New Ways of Analyzing Variation,
Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture, Language & Social Practice
Service to the profession
2023-25
Chair, Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ [Z] Linguistics (COZIL) Pronoun Statement Sub-Committee,
Linguistic Society of America
2021Member, Ombuds Committee, Linguistic Society of America
2020-21
Member, Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ [Z] Linguistics (COZIL) Pronoun Statement Sub-Committee,
Linguistic Society of America
To the department / institution
2020Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara
2020Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara
2019Chair, Curriculum Subcommittee, Trans* Task Force, UC Santa Barbara
2016-2017
Trans Inclusion Training Development Committee, UC Santa Barbara
2015Member, Trans* Task Force [campus-wide committee], UC Santa Barbara
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association; American Dialect Society; Association for Feminist Anthropology; Association for
Queer Anthropology; International Gender & Language Association; Linguistic Society of America; Society for Linguistic
Anthropology
LANGUAGES
English (native)
Spanish (advanced)
French (reading knowledge; basic conversation)
American Sign Language (beginner)