Christine Mallinson

Christine Mallinson is an assistant professor of Language, Literacy, and Cultureand affiliate assistant professor of Gender & Women's Studiesat the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research connects issues of language, region, education, race/ethnicity, gender, and other social factors, especially as they face speakers of Southern English and African American English. She has contributed chapters to books including The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, The Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics; African American Women’s Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity; Sustaining Linguistic Diversity; American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast; and Linguistic Diversity in the South. Her work has also appeared in journals including American Speech, Discourse & Society, Gender & Language, Language & Linguistics Compass, Language in Society, Sociolinguistic Studies, and Teaching Sociology. Her book, Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools, co-authored with Anne Harper Charity Hudley of The College of William and Mary, is forthcoming from Teachers College Press in the Multicultural Education Series.

Dr. Mallinson is the associate editor of the pedagogical section “Teaching American Speech,” published in each summer issue of the journal American Speech. She also serves on the editorial board of the Sociolinguistics division of the journal Language and Linguistics Compass.

Dr. Mallinson received her B.A. in Sociology and German from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.A. in English with a concentration in sociolinguistics from North Carolina State University. She earned her PhD in Sociology and Anthropology, with concentrations in sociolinguistics and race/class/gender inequality, from North Carolina State University in 2006.

Selected publications
Forthcoming. Mallinson, Christine, and Tyler Kendall. “Interdisciplinary Approaches.” In preparation for The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, eds. Richard Cameron, Ceil Lucas, and Robert Bayley. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming. Mallinson, Christine, and Becky Childs. “The Language of Black Women in the Smoky Mountain Region of Appalachia.” Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.

2011.	Charity Hudley, Anne H., and Christine Mallinson. Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools. Multicultural Education Series, series editor James A. Banks. New York: Teachers College Press.

2010.	Mallinson, Christine. “Social Stratification.” The Sage Handbook on Sociolinguistics, eds. Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone, and Paul Kerswill. London: Sage.

2010.	Mallinson, Christine, and Anne H. Charity Hudley. “Communicating about Communication: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educating Educators about Language Variation.” Language and Linguistics Compass 4: 245–257.

2010.	Childs, Becky, Christine Mallinson, and Jeannine Carpenter. “Vowel Phonology and Ethnicity in North Carolina.” Vowel Phonology and Ethnicity. Publications of the American Dialect Society 93, eds. Erik R. Thomas and Malcah Yaeger-Dror. Durham: Duke University Press.

2009.	Mallinson, Christine, and Robin Dodsworth. “Revisiting the Need for New Approaches to Social Class in Variationist Sociolinguistics.” Sociolinguistic Studies 3.2: 253–278, as part of the special issue: “Analysing Language as a Way to Understand Social Phenomena, ”ed. Philippe Hambye and Jean-Louis Siroux.

2009.	Mallinson, Christine. “Language, Interaction, and Inequality: A Teaching Exercise for the Sociological Classroom.” Teaching Sociology 37: 301–8.

2009.	Mallinson, Christine. “Sociolinguistics and Sociology: Current Directions, Future Partnerships.”	Language and Linguistics Compass 3: 1034–51.

2009.	Mallinson, Christine, and Tyler Kendall. “‘The Way I Can Speak for Myself’: The Social and Linguistic Context of Counseling Interviews with African American Adolescent Girls in Washington, DC.” African American Women’s Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity, ed. Sonja Lanehart, pp. 110–126. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2009.	Brewster, Zachary W., and Christine Mallinson. “Racial Differences in Restaurant Tipping: Server Agency within a Labour Process Perspective.” The Service Industries Journal 29: 1053–75.