Student Publications

The CLASP curriculum, as part of its teaching mission, is designed to foster and encourage graduate student publications. Below is an abbreviated list of publications by current students in the CLASP program.

Note: If you are a current CLASP student, we would like to add citations for your publications to this page! Please send your information to the CLASP Director, Kira Hall, atkira.hall@colorado.edu.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

2025

  • Arnold-Murray, Katherine. 2025. "Signs in conflict: Contrastive indexical meanings of the Star of David in a queer ban of the Jewish pride flag." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
  • Grothues, Natalie. 2025. "Grafting in interaction: A sequential analysis of interdiscursive 'moments' in American public school board meetings." Language in Society.
  • Kosse, Maureen. 2025. "Referentialism and discursive parallels between white nationalist and 'gendercritical' conspiracism." Journal of Right-Wing Studies.
  • Kosse, Maureen, and Kira Hall. 2025. Sissy hypno in a trans-affirming register. In Borba, R. and Rowlett, B., eds., The Language of Sex Work. London: Routledge.

2024

  • Arnold-Murray, Katherine. 2024. "Settle for Biden: The scalar production of a normative presidential candidate on Instagram." Language in Society.
  • Hedrick-Shaw, Devon. 2024. "Looking back to move forward: Re-examining “alternative” certification as a site for teacher learning." Teachers and Teaching.

2023

  • Christoffersen, Katherine, Aubrey Villanueva, and Ryan Bessett. 2023. "Student Perceptions of Community Engaged Scholarship Courses: Developing a Sociolinguistic Corpus on the U.S.-Mexico Border." International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement 11(1).https://doi.org/10.37333/001c.91726
  • Henry, Jacob. 2023. "'Say a sentence': Drawing an interactional link between organizations, language ideologies, and coloniality." Signs & Society 11(1), 93-114.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722838
  • Khoo, Velda. 2023. "Voicing Singlish from the 'Middle': Indexical Hybridities of Class, Race, Language, and Singaporeanness." [Special issue, “Toward a Non-binary Semiotics of Intersectionality: Linguistic Anthropology in the Wake of Coloniality”, edited by Jay Ke-Schutte and Joshua Babcock]. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 33(2), 202-222.
  • Kosse, Maureen. 2023. "Among the New Words: birthing person." American Speech 98(1): 108-109. https://doi-org /10.1215/00031283-10579494
  • Snow Balderas, Mary Beth, & Gumina, Deena. (2023). "Collective reflection to resist demoralization: Exploring bilingual teachers’ narrative learning experiences." Language Arts, 100(5).
  • Yunis Varas, Bernardita M., andTiera Tanksley.“What is peace for Palestine/inians under Israeli settler colonial occupation?: A counterstory imagining of peace through transformational resistance to erasure,” InFatima Waqi Sajjad(ed).,Peace as Liberation: Visions and Praxis from Below.Springer Nature.

2022

  • Andrews, Tarren. 2022. “Gendered Exile in the Past and Present: An Indigenous Feminist Reading of The Wife’s Lament.” In Yearbook of English Studies, eds. Joshua Davies and Claire Lees.
  • Amarelo, Daniel. 2022. “Pedagoxía queer e educación lingüística: unha aproximación a través da reflexión” [Queer pedagogy and language education: an approach through reflection]. Revista Estudos Linguísticos e Literários (UFBA – Brasil), 71, 206-232.
  • Butters, Marielle. 2022. "The negative existential cycle in Chadic".In The Negative Existential Cycle from a Historical-comparative Perspective (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 99), Ed. Arja Hamari and Ljuba Veselinova. Berlin: Language Science Press.10.5281/zenodo.6306474
  • Butters, Marielle. 2022."Negation in Sundanese".In Negative Systems of the World, Ed. Matti Miestamo and Ljuba Veselinova. Language Science Press.
  • Calder, J, Rebecca Wheeler, Sarah Adams, Daniel Amarelo, Katherine Arnold-Murray, Justin Bai, Meredith Church, Josh Daniels, Sarah Gomez, Jacob Henry, Yunan Jia, Brienna Johnson-Morris, Kyo Lee, Kit Miller, Derrek Powell, Caitlin Ramsey-Smith, Sydney Rayl, Sara Rosenau, and Nadine Salvadore. 2022. "Is Zoom viable for sociophonetic research?: A comparison of in-person and online recordings for vocalic analysis."Linguistics Vanguard 2022:1-18.
  • Dougherty, Caitlín, Deborah Palmer, Stacie Aldana, and Mary Gilreath.2022. "Intentando incluir a todes: Afirst-grade team’s gender-inclusive pedagogies."In: Lisa M.Dorner, DeborahPalmer, Claudia G.Cervantes-Soon, DanHeiman, andEmily R.Crawford(Eds.),Critical Consciousness in Dual LanguageBilingual Education: Case Studies on Policy and Practice. .
  • Hamman-Ortiz, Laura, Vanessa Santiago Schwarz, Molly Hamm-Rodríguez, and MileidisGort. 2022. "Engagingteachers in a genre-based pedagogy for writing arguments: A case study of shifts in practiceand understanding." TESOL Quarterly.
  • Hamm-Rodríguez, Molly,and LisaOrtiz. 2022. "Layering Caribbean texts and modalities: Relationalpedagogies for secondary language arts classrooms." archipelagos6.
  • Gort, Mileidis, and MollyHamm-Rodríguez. 2022. "Centering language and communicative purpose inwriting instruction for bi/multilingual learners." The Reading Teacher75(6):693-706.
  • Kosse, Maureen. 2022. "'Ted Cruz cucks again': The insult term cuck as an alt-right masculinist signifier." Gender and Language 16(2): 99-124. doi.org/10.1558/genl.21079
  • Lee, Rebecca. "Something Funny about English: The Post-Indefinite Pronoun Modification Construction." Colorado Research in Linguistics, Vol. 26.
  • Reuben, Katherine E., and AydenParish. 2022."Dissociation in Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Under-recognized Symptom." In E. Christensen (ed.) Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Response: Ethical, Historical, and Cultural Issues (pp. 151–186). HWC Press.
  • Rosenau, Sara. 2022. "Mock Koreaboo: Appropriating Appropriation."Colorado Research in Linguistics 26.https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/cril/article/view/1577
  • Snow Balderas, Mary Beth, Molly Hamm-Rodríguez, Vanessa Santiago Schwarz,and MileidisGort. 2022. "Resisting high stakes educational reform through genre writing in a multilingual classroom."LanguageArts99(3):179-191.

2021

  • Adams, Sarah. 2021. "A Pilot Study on Voice-Conditioned Vowel Raising Comparison in the Hockey Community of Practice”.Colorado Research in Linguistics 25.https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/cril/article/view/1335
  • Alvarez, Adriana, Leah Peña Teeters, L., and MollyHamm-Rodríguez. 2021. "Understanding children’s funds ofidentity for learning through multimodal self-expressions in Mexico City." Learning, Culture, and Social Action29.
  • Andrews, Tarren. 2021.“The Afterlives of Crisis: Harold and Custer on the Slipstream,” contribution to special cluster on “Spaces and Times of Crisis.” InExemplaria, eds. Elizabeth Allen, Gina Hurley, and Mary Kate Hurly.
  • Andrews, Tarren. 2021.“From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler Colonialism.” In Translation and Transmission in Medieval Literary and Material Culture, eds. Amanda Doviak, Jane Hawkes, and Megan Henvey. Brill.
  • Andrews, Tarren. 2021.Lines 1-12, trans. with the Flathead Indian Reservation.InBeowulf by All: A Community Translation and Workbook, eds. Jean Abbott, Elaine Treharne, and Mateusz Fafinski. Arc Humanities Press, p. 18.
  • Arnold-Murray, Katherine. 2021. "Multimodally constructed dialogue in political campaign commercials." Journal of Pragmatics 173: 15-27.
  • Frajzyngier, Zygmunt,and Marielle Butters. 2021. The emergence of functions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-emergence-of-functions-in-language
  • Hamm-Rodríguez, Molly, andCarmen Liliana Medina. 2021. "Intra-Caribbean solidarities and the language of socialprotest."Applied Linguistics42(6):1138-1143.
  • Hamm-Rodríguez, M. & Sambolín Morales, A.N. 2021. "A Perfect Storm: Navigating Florida’s English-Only Stance and the Production of Insecurity for Puerto Rican Students." CENTROL Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 33(1).
  • Henry, Jacob. 2021. "'You came here to get tacos, bro': Place references as argumentative resources." Colorado Research in Linguistics25.
  • Hernandez, Brittni Laura, Leonardi, Bethy, Regan, Page, Ruíz-Martínez, María J., Staley, Sara, Tomiko, Robyn. (2021). "Community and liberation by design: A queer endeavor’s 2021 educator institute for equity and justice." Voices: School of Education Magazine, 4, 18-19. /education/2021/12/01/community-and-liberation-design
  • Hopewell, Susan, Escamilla, Kathy, Ruíz-Martínez, María J. & Zamorano, Katia. (2021). "Designing and facilitating language interpretation experiences with 2nd and 3rd grade bilingual learners: Learning from teachers’ experiences." Bilingual Research Journal, 45(2), 140-158.
  • Kulick, Kachine, Regan, Page, Ruíz-Martínez, María J., Tomiko, Robyn. (2021). "Co-designing educator spaces for collective liberation: A photographic essay." The Assembly, 4(1), 33-42. /journal/assembly/2022/01/12/co-designing-educator-spaces-collective-liberation-photographic-essay
  • Sambolín Morales, A.N., Hamm-Rodríguez, M., Morales, B., Nunez, J., Hernández, M. & Graw-González, M. 2021. Humanizing research with secondary Latinx teachers from Florida through transformative praxis and decolonial inquiry. The Assembly3, 52-70.
  • Yunis Varas, Bernardita M. 2021. “Performing my Latina body in white academia: White supremacy, the wolf in ally’s clothing.”The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics5(1).

2020

  • Aldama, A., Carroll, C., Myhal, N., Ruiz, L., & Ruíz-Martínez, M.J. (2020). “Indigeneity.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies. Ed. Ilan Stavans. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Andrews, Tarren.2020. “Introduction: Indigenous Futures and Medieval Pasts.” English Language Notes, eds. Tarren Andrews and Tiffany Beechy, vol. 58(2): 1-17.
  • Andrews, Tarren. 2020.“The Role of Land Acknowledgements.” MLA Newsletter, Apr 2020, p. 5.
  • Delfino, J and Kosse, Maureen. 2020. "Racialization and the national body: (Re)defining selves and others in changing contexts of liberal democratic governance." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 265:1-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-2100
  • Yunis Varas, Bernardita M. 2020 “Back to school at 33: A laboring Latina’s restimonio of life in academia.”Border-Lines: Journal of the Latino Research Center12: 32-51.

Conference Proceedings

2022

  • Lee, Rebecca. 2022. "'Nothing racist in that comment': Spatial metaphor, syntactic variation, and socio-polysemy." Proceedings of Chicago Linguistics Society57 (2021).
  • Yunis Varas, Bernardita M. 2022. “Articulating methodologies for dissertation project: Embodied experience to tell a story of (colonial & forced) migration.”El Mundo Zurdo 8: Selected Works from the 2019 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.Aunt Lute Books.

2021

  • Arnold-Murray, Katherine. 2021.“Because I’ve had these things I know I didn’t do by myself”: A case study of how one life storyteller constructs an emergent spiritual identity through representations of agency. In Proceedings of the 20th Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society, ed. by Caitie Coons, Gabriella Chronis, Sofia Pierson, and Venkat Govindarajan, pp.1-20.
  • Lee, Rebecca. 2021. "Ideology, frame semantics, and variation: A cognitive sociolinguistic study of the English lexeme racist." Proceedings of Chicago Linguistics Society 56(2020), p. 269-281.

Book Reviews

  • Amarelo, Daniel. 2022. “Martín Rojo, Luisa, y Joan Pujolar, coords. Claves para entender el multilingüismo contemporáneo” [book review]. Hispania, 105(1), 157-159.
  • Amarelo, Daniel. 2021. “Teresa Moure. Lingüística se escribe con A. La perspectiva degénero en las ideas sobre el lenguaje.” [book review]. Gender & Language, 15(4).
  • Arnold-Murray, Katherine. 2023. Book review ofClaire Maree'squeerqueen: Linguistic excess in Japanese media.Gender and Language 17(3):1-5.
  • Arnold-Murray, Katherine. 2022. Book review ofKristy Beers Fägersten'sLanguage play in contemporary Swedish comic strips.Language in Society 51(4):723–724.
  • Hamm-Rodríguez, Molly. 2023. Book review of Nicholas Q. Emlen'sLanguage, coffee, andmigration on an Andean-Amazonian frontier. Language and Society 52: 272.
  • Kosse, Maureen. 2020. Book review of Rusty Barrett's From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay MaleSubcultures Gender and Language 14(4).
  • Yunis Varas, Bernardita M. 2021. Book review of Leandra Hinojosa Hernándezand Robert Gutierrez-Perez'sThis bridge called communication: Anzaldúan approaches to theory, method, and praxis.Women’s Studies in Communication41(3):450-452.
  • Yunis Varas, Bernardita M. 2021. Book review ofSa’ed Atshan'sQueer Palestine and the empire of critique.International Journal of Communication15:4314–4316..

CLASP Facts

CLASP faculty member Dr. J Calder and their students in LING 6310: Sociolinguistic Analysis conducted a study of the viability of the use of zoom in sociophonetic studies, published in Linguistics Vanguard. The study was carried out in Fall 2020 as many linguists were beginning to conduct all researchinterviews via zoom during COVID.