NEWS

Brittany was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ArticuLab, working on educational technologies to improve classroom learning and interactions around cultural and linguistic differences. She received her BA in Linguistics and Psychology from the University of Virginia and her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. In her graduate work, Brittany investigated morphosyntactic variation in African American Vernacular English and Mainstream American English. She is also interested in educational interventions and worked with Bill Labov to develop the Penn Reading Initiative, a student-run volunteer group that tutors reading in local schools (http://pri.sas.upenn.edu/). Her other research interests include literacy, language discrimination, teacher training, and educational policies on language variation.