I'm originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, but moved to New York to pursue my PhD. I'm currently a student at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where I work on issues at the syntax-semantics interface. Most of my research looks at negation, so I also have an interest in pragmatics and processing. I've conducted research on English dialects and language variation as well.

 

I like to use experimental methods to investigate larger theoretical questions. In addition to my theoretical syntactic work, I am currently interested in using psycholinguistic methods to investigate semantic and pragmatic phenomena in Slavic languages. 

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Before starting my PhD, I began a B.A. in viola performance and completed my B.A. in French at UCLA; I've also completed an M.A. in linguistics at Boston University. During my time at Boston University, I worked on double negation in Russian and Northern California hella. I was supervised by Neil Myler for my syntactic work on the Northern Californian dialect and by Liz Coppock for my semantic work on negation. 

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I currently teach The Structure of Modern English at Hunter College, which covers core linguistic concepts, as well as discusses dialects and variation in the English language. 

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