Graduate
Alumni
The University of South Florida Department of World Languages would like to acknowledge the following alumni for completing their Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (LALS). Congratulations, bulls!
(Alumni in alphabetical order; year of graduation in parenthesis)
Dr. Judith Bridges (2019)
Current position: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of World Languages, University of
South Florida
Dissertation title: [X]splaining gender, race, class, and body: Metapragmatic disputes of linguistic authority
and ideologies on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr
Dissertation committee: Camilla Vásquez (Chair), Mariaelena Bartesaghi, Amanda Huensch, and Nicole Tracy-Ventura
Email: jcbridges@usf.edu
Dr. Yaqian Jiang (2022)
Current position: Instructor, Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University
Dissertation title: The making of microcelebrities on Douyin: Multimodal design and online identities
in informal English instruction videos
Dissertation committee: Camilla Vásquez (Chair), Wei Zhu, Amanda Huensch, and Brandon Tullock
Email: yaqian.jiang@mtsu.edu
Dr. Ramona Kreis (2019)
Current position: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Literature, University of Bremen
Dissertation title: Right-wing, nationalist discourses and counter-discourses on Twitter during the European
migrant crisis
Dissertation committee: Camilla Vásquez (Chair), Jennifer Wolgemuth, Nicole Tracy-Ventura, and Tara Deubel
Email: rkreis@uni-bremen.de