Semester dates are approximate.
2012-08-01
Enrolled in PhD program
Graduate Arts and Sciences
Linguistics Major
Susan Huntington Dean’s Distinguished University Fellowship
2012-08-01
Autumn 2012
Courses taken:
CHINESE 6380 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
LING 5101 Phonetic Theory
– Field Language Report: Anhui Feixi Mandarin
LING 5201 Syntactic Theory 1
– Syntactic properties of the construction “I can’t”
LING 5601 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
– Language and anti-Chinese racism in the media
LING 6001 Teaching Introduction to Linguistics
LING 7890.11 SoMean Group
2013-01-01
Spring 2013
Courses taken:
COMPSTD 7380 Theorizing (the) America(s)
– Perpetual foreigner, yellow peril, and model minority
– When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity by Shoshana Amielle Magnet
– Migrating to the Movies by Jacqueline Stewart
– Borders and agency in Brother, I’m Dying
ENGLISH 7858.01 The Ethics of Ethnics: Comparative Racialization, Cultural Studies and the Post-Racial Era
– Review of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization eds. Grace Kyungwon Hong & Roderick A. Ferguson
– Annotated Bibliography
LING 5602 Introduction to Quantitative Sociolinguistics
– Asian American English
LING 5651 Languages in Contact
– The interlanguage of L1 Chinese speakers learning English as a second language
LING 6000 Teaching Introduction to Linguistics
LING 6001 Proseminar
2013-05-01
Maymester 2013
Courses taken:
LING 6000 Teaching Introduction to Linguistics
LING 6193 Individual Studies
WGSST 8800 Topics in Feminist Studies
– Problematizing sociolinguistic authenticity: Considering power, oppression, and cultural appropriation in crossing
2013-08-01
Autumn 2013
Courses taken:
CHINESE 7385 Chinese Dialects
– 芜湖语 Wuhu Dialect
LING 5301 Phonological Theory 1
– Coronal palatalization without dorsal palatalization
LING 5401 Semantics 1
– The syntax and semantics of Chinese classifiers
– The syntax and semantics of Chinese classifiers (in progress)
LING 5700 Science Education Outreach
– Pasta Phonetics Demo
2014-01-01
FMLA leave
On leave from graduate school during 2014 to recuperate from burnout.
2015-01-01
Spring 2015
Courses Taken:
ENGLISH 4580 Special Topics in LGBTQ Literature
– Heteronormativity and the development of the Singaporean nation
ENGLISH 8193 Individual Studies
LING 7890.06 Social Historical Linguistics
2015-06-01
Summer 2015
Courses taken:
LING 8193 Individual Studies
2015-06-30
Dropped out
Decided graduate program wasn't a good fit and left for other prospects.