Summary

Tamara Valentine, a native Chicagoan of Lithuanian descent, earned her Ph.D. in linguistics from the w88 slot online Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Valentine works in the area of sociolinguistics and has published articles and presented papers on topics related to English as an international language, South Asian languages and linguistics, discourse analysis, language and gender, and cross-cultural communication. She specializes in the contextualization of world Englishes within a sociolinguistic framework, particularly taking an integrative sociocultural approach to the study of Indian English and the construction of gender. She has been awarded a number of grants to conduct fieldwork in India, has held a series of lectureships in Lithuania, India and Costa Rica, and has traveled extensively throughout South Asia, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. In 2017, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awarded Valentine the bi-national U.S.-France International Education Administrators Award to engage with French international education professionals and promote globalization initiatives. She has participated on national screening committees for the Fulbright Student Award, Critical Language Scholarship, Gilman Scholarship, Boren award, Phi Kappa Phi and the USIEF in Delhi, India. Valentine has taught linguistics and English as a second language at the w88 slot online Illinois, Michigan State University and the w88 slot online South Carolina, Upstate.

Research interests

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• South Asian languages
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• discourse analysis
• language and gender

Recent publications

• Creative Acts of Gender in w88 slot online.Handbook w88 slot online, 2nd ed. Edited by Braj B. Kachru and Cecil Nelson. Blackwell. 2019.
• Access to a Quality Education: First Generation Students Reach for College HonorsEducation.Access and Opportunity: Experiences from Nevada.w88 slot online Nevada, Reno. 2019.
• A Socially Realistic View w88 slot online: Reflections on Gendered Discourse.w88 slot online2015: 149-163.
• Language and Prejudice.A Longman Topics Reader. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004.

Education

• Ph.D., Linguistics, w88 slot online Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• M.A., Linguistics, w88 slot online Illinois, Urbana-Champaign