Robin Queen
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • professor
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

Robin M. Queen is an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. In 2010 she was named a Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Linguistics, English Languages and Literatures, and Germanic Languages and Literatures.[1][2] She also served as the Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan.

Education and research

Queen earned a B.S. in Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1990, and she received both an M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her Ph.D. dissertation is titled, Intonation in contact: A study of Turkish–German bilingual intonation patterns.

Her work has primarily focused on the language of lesbians and also on bilingual education and culture, especially among those of Turkish descent in Germany.[3] She has also studied the interaction of personality and grammatical views.[4]

Honors

Queen was elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2015.[5]

Queen served as the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of English Linguistics from 2006 to 2012.[1][6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Robin Queen | U-M LSA Linguistics". Lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  2. ↑ "U-M Office of the Provost | Programs | Thurnau Professorships". www.provost.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  3. ↑ "Robin Queen - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  4. ↑ Hopper, David (4 May 2016). "Robin Queen, University of Michigan – Typos & Personality". The Academic Minute. WAMC. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Announcing the LSA Fellows Class of 2015. Linguistic Society of America news release, August 25, 2014 . Accessed August 13, 2016
  6. ↑ "Journal of English Linguistics - Volume 39, Number 2, Jun 01, 2011". journals.sagepub.com. Retrieved 2018-12-20.


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