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I am currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. I did my undergraduate work at Wellesley College in MA, and my graduate work at Stanford University in CA. I also was a Visiting Assistant Professor for a year at Mt. Holyoke College in MA.

If you are interested in more details, you can take a look at my resume.

Teaching:

These are classes that I'm currently teaching at Carleton.

• Introductory Psychology (aka Principles of Psychology)
• Psychology of Language
• Introduction to Cognitive Studies
• Junior Colloquium in Psychology
• Seminar on Language and Deception

These are classes that I've taught other places.

• Introduction to Statistics
• Research Methods
• Cognitive Psychology
• Seminar on Psychology and Technology

Research Interests:

• Psycholinguistics (models of language production, comprehension, and discourse)
• Discourse Processes (interactivity between speakers and listeners, sense creation, nonce sense, convention formation, metalinguistics)
• Gestures
• Neurolinguistics (right-hemisphere deficits)
• Human-Computer Interaction (computer-mediated communication)
• Human Memory

Research Projects:

• The creation of novel meaning
• The creation of linguistic conventions
• Turn-taking in computer-mediated communication
• The development of the use of editing terms in children
• The use of gestures with relation to the physical environment

Electronic Journals:

• The Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
• Computer Mediated Communication Magazine
• Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center (People, events and activities related to CMC)