“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” -- Oscar Wilde

Starting this Fall, I am a Lecturer in Laboratory Phonology in the Department of Linguistics at Rice University where I teach introductory linguistics, phonetics and phonology. As a laboratory phonologist, my broad research interests are in phonetics & psycholinguistics with particular interests in speech perception, coarticulation, and socially-meaningful variation.

Until recently I was a graduate student in linguistics at the University of Michigan. Prior to that I spent about ten years as the University of Michigan's webmaster which entailed a lot of programming, systems administration (linux, sunos, solaris), database administration (mysql, oracle), and cat herding (managing people). Surprisingly, my new job calls on all of this experience.