I study how transnational actors go about localizing and extending themselves into multiple locations and how this impacts the connection between their conceptual and material worlds. Drawing on situated audio and audio-visual recordings collected during ethnographic projects, I examine how contemporary changes in sensory modalities influence adherence to linguistic norms and sociolinguistic innovation, and how this may impact group formation processes. 

I analyse scale-making practices among transnational individuals and groups, their embodied enactments and entanglement in network cultures and specific rearrangements of materials. I examine both how sensorimotor capacities are entangled in bodily experiences and how they are embedded in their sociocultural and technological contexts. In my writing, I weave minute details of social interactions into larger societal and historical narratives, with an aim to understanding how they contribute to the changing configurations triggered by the demands of the global cultures.

About me

Current and recent academic positions

2024-ongoing    Senior Lecturer  → School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
2021-2024           Lecturer (permanent) → School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
2020-2022          Fulford Junior Research Fellow → Somerville College, Oxford
2019-2021            Lecturer (fixed-term) → Faculty of Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, University of Oxford
2017-2020           Postdoctoral Researcher → Birkbeck, University of London

Education

2016                     PhD (DPhil) in General Linguistics, University of Oxford
2011                      MA in Social Sciences (linguistics, linguistic anthropology), University of Chicago
2010                     MA (Focus: linguistics, English, German), University of Warsaw

Additional training

2023-ongoing   Python 
2018 -ongoing   Film-making training at Birkbeck and Open City Doc School, UCL e.g.: Documentary Storytelling, Visual Anthropology 
                             and the City, Filmmaking as a research technique, etc. 
                             Film editing (DaVinci Resolve, iMovie)
                             Methods training: NVivo (data management and multimodal analysis), University of London
2012-2016           Statistical software R, phonetic software Praat (annotation, coding, phonetic analysis: segmental, suprasegmental), 
                             linguistic software Elan (transcription, annotation, coding: linguistic and non-linguistic variables, conversation analysis, 
                             discourse analysis), University of Oxford
2009                   LSA Summer Linguistic Institute, University of California at Berkeley, USA