Abby Killam

Professional Timeline

I’m currently a third year Ph.D. student at Georgetown University in the sociolinguistics concentration.

  • Washington D.C.: Today

    I’m in my third year of coursework in the Georgetown Sociolinguistics Ph.D. program. Here are some of my favorite views in DC!

  • Miami, FL: October 2024

    I presented a project launch proposal at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV52). In this proposal, I explored how media engagement may or may not influence the way we use language, and I also shared potential methods, a rough timeline, and anticipated challenges for this projected research. Stay tuned!

  • Buffalo, NY: April 2024

    I presented a paper about how commenters construct and negotiate the meanings of voseo (a Spanish second personal singular pronoun) on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube at the 11th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS11).

  • Columbus, OH: March 2024

    I presented a paper about how commenters construct and negotiate the meanings of voseo (a Spanish second personal singular pronoun) on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube at The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 2024.

  • Denver, CO: January 2023

    I presented a poster on Justin Bieber’s adoption of black identity features at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)’s 97th annual meeting.

  • Stanford, CA: October, 2022

    I virtually presented my paper on Justin Bieber’s adoption of black identity features at New Ways of Analyzing Variation(NWAV50).

  • Washington D.C.: August 2022

    I started the Sociolinguistics Ph.D. program at Georgetown! 🎉

  • Washington D.C.: January 2022

    I presented my poster on Dora’s identity-based switches between Spanish and English phonology at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)’s 96th annual meeting. (Little did I know I would end up moving to D.C. that year for a grad program!)

  • Los Angeles, CA: January 2019 – July 2022

    I graduated with a double major in linguistics and Spanish at the University of Southern California, and fell in love with hiking up mountains and beaches and year-round warm weather!