Consultations with Gretchen
Gretchen McCulloch will visit Tartu and Nijmegen!
After her workshop on Communicating Linguistics, Gretchen would like to meet enthusiastic early-career researchers to learn more about their research and get inspired for her podcast Lingthusiasm ! Gretchen will also be there to answer your questions about science communication and help you make your project into an accessible 2-minute explanation.
So if you are an early-career researcher in Tartu or Nijmegen, sign up for a slot to meet with Gretchen!
Tartu consultation dates
29th of August
Nijmegen consultation dates
2nd and 3rd of September
Note: it is also possible to sign up for a slot as a group!
Bio
Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist: she explores the language of the internet for the people of the internet. She’s the co-creator of Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics, and the author of the New York Times bestselling book Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, which was published by Riverhead (Penguin) in 2019 and has been reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Economist, TIME, the Atlantic, NPR, and Science Magazine. Because Internet was also named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and the Washington Post.
McCulloch writes the Resident Linguist column at Wired and has also written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, Slate, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and The Toast. She has a master’s in linguistics from McGill University and has spoken for South by Southwest, YouTube, Duolingo, Princeton, Facebook, Sotheby’s, Yale, and the Unicode Consortium. McCulloch is the creator of the linguistics blog All Things Linguistic, co-writer of the video series Crash Course Linguistics, and co-founder of LingComm, the International Conference on Linguistics Communication. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Linguistic Society of America’s Language, Linguistics, and the Public award. She is Canadian and lives in Montreal, but also on the internet. You can follow her on Twitter @GretchenAMcC.
