I am a faculty lecturer in the Critical Writing department at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and my seminars are organized around topics in linguistics and cognitive science.. By training I am a theoretical linguist, with a specialization in the morphosyntax and variation of Indonesian languages.

My linguistics research is focused on colloquial Indonesian and Madurese, an understudied language spoken primarily in East Java. Broadly speaking, my interests include syntax and its interfaces; syntactic variability and its theoretical implications; sociolinguistics and variation; collaborative fieldwork, particularly in under-represented languages; and writing about linguistics/language.