Robin Queen's teaching and research center on sociolinguistic questions related to language contact, language ideology, and language change, with a particular emphasis on multilingualism in Germany. She has also considered questions concerning the ties between language and social identities and language in the mass media. Her work draws on data from a wide-variety of sources, including Turkish-German bilinguals, American lesbians, and American films dubbed into German. She is the co-editor of The Journal of English Linguistics (Sage).

• In press. (with A. Markovits). Women and canine rescue. Society And Animals (R)
  
• 2007 Sociolinguistic Horizons: Language and Sexuality. Language Compass (I, R)
• 2006 Contact-related language change and variability in the intonation patterns of Turkish-German bilinguals. Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society. 465-476 (R)
• 2006 Phrase-final intonation in narratives told by Turkish-German bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism. 10:2, 153-178 (R)
• 2005 "'How many lesbians does it take…?': Jokes, teasing and the negotiation of stereotypes about lesbians." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 15:2, 239-257 (R)
• 2004 'Du hast jar keene Ahnung.': Dubbing African-American English into German. Journal of Sociolinguistics 8:4, 515-537 (R)
• 2003 Language ideology and political economy among Turkish-German bilinguals in Germany. In B. Joseph, J. DeStefano, N. Jacobs and I. Lehiste, When languages collide: Perspectives on language conflict, language competition, and language coexistence, pp. 201-221. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press (I, R)