Our Members
We are a growing community that includes the following scholars and many more.
Dr. Ethan Kutlu
Dr. Ethan Kutlu
I'm a part of this collective because as a psycholinguist, I firmly stand by the fact that the unreliable categorization of language users as native or non-native is harmful.
Dr. Savithry Namboodiripad
Dr. Savithry Namboodiripad
The way "nativeness" is used in some areas of linguistics has shaped what kind of research I've been told I can do, and how my language community and research participants are seen; the more I learn about this concept, the more I'm convinced that our fields cannot move forward without letting it go.
The standard is often based in hegemonic norms that frame it as "neutral," and I want to dispel this notion!
I'm participating in the ROLE Collective to address the consequences for our research when we use vague and nonstandardized group descriptions, and the harmful repercussions for members of the language communities we serve when their language knowledge is diminished or dismissed by these descriptions.
I'm ready to break down some of our field's racist and colonial history :)
As a bilingual researcher and educator, I feel I have a strong responsibility to do everything I can to promote a more comprehensive, ecologically valid, and equitable understanding (and appreciation for) language and human diversity while doing everything I can to fight against the extremely harmful and inaccurate ideas that have been perpetuated through centuries of native speaker biases and monolingual ideologies.
As scholars in linguistics, I believe we must be both responsive to and critical of folk linguistic ideas.
I am part of the ROLE Collective because I support linguistic justice for all people.
I am enlivened to work with this engaged & passionate group of researchers because as a word historian, acutely aware of how the word native has been used over time and in real time to marginalize individuals who do not meet a constructed ideal.
As a psycholinguist, I recognize that our experimental choices, including categorization of individuals into groups, impact both the questions we are able to ask and the communities we work with and for.
I participate in this collective because I believe that the diversity of language experiences is our collective linguistic strength.
Dr. Matthew Carlson
WebsiteDr. Matthew Carlson
I am here to help us work towards new understandings of human language that are both scientifically sound and promote social justice.
I am working on dismantling native speaker ideologies and monolingual bias in language ideological research and in my university teaching, being the only L2 speaker of German in my department of German Studies.
I care about expanding language representation in cognitive science research, particularly aphasia.
I'm a part of the ROLE Collective because I want to help create a more just, accurate, and inclusive linguistics
Adeli (Addie) Block
Adeli (Addie) Block
Bringing anti-essentialism to our efforts toward linguistic justice and language as liberation!
I am part of the ROLE Collective to contribute to and gain insights from a dynamic community that fosters innovation in language education.
I work on Sign languages and Indigenous language revitalization. In each of these domains, the issue of "native" arises; in each of these, it is clear that labeling someone "native" with respect to language use excludes the majority of language users.
As a multilingual speaker and language researcher, I aim to bridge the gap between research and the public, dispelling misconceptions about bilingualism and promoting all forms of language use and communication.
We all need to do our part to dismantle harmful language ideologies in society and academic circles.
In my research, I'm working with deaf population which has very heterogeneous language background. I am part of the ROLE Collective to better represent the language experiences of the community that I work with.