Jessi Grieser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the use of African American Language style in the creation and maintenance of identities which are not necessarily ethnoracial in nature, particularly identities of place and class, with healthy side servings of geosemiotics and the study of language online. Jessi works using the methods of discourse analysis, sociophonetics, and quantitative variationist analysis, and especially the intersections thereof.

TITLE
The Art of Invention

ABSTRACT
This talk addresses one of the thorniest questions facing new graduate students: where do I get good ideas and how do I develop them in useful ways? Using my own career as a case study, I'll talk about successes and failures, and unexpected detours and I'll demonstrate 7 techniques of idea generation which have shaped my work. We'll also talk about what it means to get a Ph.D. more generally and I'll give five tips about how to interact with your work and others in ways that produce scholarly output, can make the process of becoming a Ph.D. straightforward and perhaps, even fun.

Join us in person or virtually