Perspectives on English Language Studies:
A Symposium in Honor of Richard W. Bailey

Saturday, December 6th
Angell Hall, room 3222

Panel 1
(9:15-10:30)
Lessons Learned: Perspectives on the Past Forty Years in English Language Studies

Chair: Joshua Miller, The University of Michigan

Studying Writing
Amy Devitt, The University of Kansas

Forty Years of English Dialects
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., The University of Georgia

The Computer as a Catalyst for Scholarship
John Smith, The University of North Carolina

Panel 2
(10:45 - 12:15)
Puzzles that Remain: Perspectives on the Questions that Face English Language Scholars

Chair: Robin Queen, The University of Michigan

Diversity and Intersectionality
Sonja Lanehart, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Renewed Philology
Colette Moore, The University of Washington

Does Prescriptivism Really Fail?
Anne Curzan, The University of Michigan

What Will English Be Next?
Dennis Preston, Oklahoma State University

Roundtable
(2:00 - 3:15)
Getting the Message Out: English Language Scholars Talking with the Public

Chair: David W. Brown, The University of Michigan

Let’s Go to the Phones
Dennis Baron, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Everyday Language Scholars
Susanmarie Harrington, The University of Vermont

Keeping it Simple (and Interesting)
Erin McKean, Alphabeticall, Inc./VERBATIM

Interview with Richard W. Bailey
(3:30 - 4:15)

Interviewer: Michael Adams, Indiana University