I am a variationist sociolinguist and sociocultural linguist. My full CV is available here.

Most of my research has been about Canadian English(es).  My PhD thesis and during my postdoctoral work, investigated earlier Ontario English in an attempt to understand the foundations of the relatively homogeneous General Canadian English dialect region that spans from The Ontario-Quebec border to Vancouver Island.

My recent research looks toward the future rather than the past. In a series of interconnected projects, I have been investigating the English by 1st, 1.5th, and 2nd generation Canadian adolescents in relatively linguistically- and culturally-diverse neighbourhoods in the Greater Toronto Area. My work picks up on similar work in European metropolises that have observed the development of multiethnolects in these neighbourhoods.

My next project is taking me to Northern Canada. The dialects of Canada’s northern territories are almost entirely undocumented and I hope to change that.