Abby Killam

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Killam, Abby. (2025). Digital Metacommunication: Exploring Language Attitudes towards Voseo across Social Media Platforms. Spanish in Context 22(3). https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.24013.kil
Killam, Abby. (2026). Seeing vs. Believing: Gauging Perceptions of Racial Identity and Authenticity in Pop Music. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 32.1: Proceedings of 49th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PWPL 32.1), 68–77. https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/56ac8372-f510-41d4-8b69-63f95963b530/content
Killam, Abby. (2026). Sounding Black, Looking White: Perceptions of Racial Identity in Pop Music. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA 11.1). https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v11i1.6071

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Killam, Abby. (revise & resubmit). National Ideologies and Regional Voices: How Sociopolitical Exclusion Shapes Perceptions of Voseo in Online Metalinguistic Discourse. Language & Communication.
Killam, Abby. (under review). A Membership Categorization Analysis of Chilean Voseante Speakers. Spanish in Context.

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

Killam, Abby. (2026). “A Membership Categorization Analysis of Chilean Voseante Speakers.” (10-minute paper presentation). 12th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS12). 9–11 April. Georgetown University. Washington, DC.
Killam, Abby. (2026). “Sounding Black, Looking White: Perceptions of Racial Identity in Pop Music.” (20-minute paper presentation). LSA 99^th Annual Meeting. 6–9 January. New Orleans, LA.
Killam, Abby. (2025). “National Ideologies and Regional Voices: How Sociopolitical Exclusion Shapes Perceptions of Voseo in Online Metalinguistic Discourse.” (20-minute paper presentation). National Communication Association 111th Annual Convention. 20–23 November. Denver, CO.
- “Top Paper” Panelist in the Language & Social Interaction Division.
Killam, Abby. (2025). “Life in the Fast Lane”: The Evolution of Fame and Identity in Justin Bieber’s Autobiographical Narratives.” (20-minute paper presentation). National Communication Association 111th Annual Convention. 20–23 November. Denver, CO.
Killam, Abby. (2025). “Sounding Black, Looking White: Perceptions of Racial Identity in Pop Music.” (10-minute paper presentation). New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV53). 5–7 Nov. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.
Killam, Abby. (2025). “A Membership Categorization Analysis of Chilean Voseante Speakers.” (10-minute paper presentation). Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI-13). 10–11 October. Columbia University. New York, NY.
Killam, Abby. (2025). “National Ideologies and Regional Voices: How Social and Political Exclusion Shapes Perceptions of Voseo in Online Metalinguistic Discourse.” (20-minute paper presentation). Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA 2025). 29–31 May. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
Killam, Abby. (2025) “Disentangling Audiovisual Cues in the Construction of Racial Identity in Popular Music.” (20-minute paper presentation). Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC49). 5–6 April. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.
Killam, Abby. (2024). “Echoes of Digital Voices: The Role of Media Engagement on Intraspeaker Dialectal Variation and Change.” (Project Launch Poster). New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV52). 7–9 Nov. Florida International University. Miami Beach, FL.
Killam, Abby. (2024). “Digital Metacommunication: Exploring Language Attitudes towards Voseo across Social Media Platforms” (20-minute paper presentation). 11th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS11). 18–20 April. SUNY Buffalo. Buffalo, NY.
Killam, Abby. (2024). “Digital Metacommunication: Exploring Language Attitudes towards Voseo across Social Media Platforms” (20-minute paper presentation). OSU Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. 22–23 March. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.
Jarvis, Abigail. (2023). “Adopting Black Speech in Popular Music: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Justin Bieber’s Invented Identities” (poster). LSA 97^th Annual Meeting. 5–8 January. Denver, CO.
Jarvis, Abigail. (2022). “Adopting Black Speech in Popular Music: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Justin Bieber’s Invented Identities” (10-minute paper presentation). New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV50). Stanford University. 13–15 October.
Jarvis, Abigail. (2022). “A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Phonology Switches in Dora the Explorer” (poster). LSA 96^th Annual Meeting. 6–9 January. Washington, D.C.