Resume

• 2011

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Specialized in variationist sociolinguistics.\n

  Linguistics

• 2008

  English

  French

  Master’s Degree

  Linguistics

  Université du Québec à Montréal

• 2003

  Bachelor’s Degree

  French Language and Literature & History

  Wilfrid Laurier University

  Honours

• Customer Retention

  Higher Education

  Peer Tutoring

  Teaching English as a Second Language

  Research

  University Teaching

  Document Review

  Public Speaking

  Grading

  Customer Service

  Linguistics

  Data Analysis

  Kastronic

  Variationist sociolinguist specializing in language variation and change in multiple varieties of English and French.\n

  Laura

  Kastronic

  Rogers Communications

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

  University of Ottawa

  University of Toronto

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Assistant Professor

  University of Toronto

  Ottawa

  Canada Area

  Morphosyntactic variation in Canadian French: Analyzing auxiliary (avoir and être) alternation in French spoken in Canada. \n\nDiachronic morphosyntactic variation in North American English: Tracing the English subjunctive across time under both mandative and adverbial triggers. \n\nFieldwork: Data collection (collection of naturalistic speech samples from children aged 7-12 at various schools in the Ottawa region).\n\nMorphosyntactic variation in British English: Main focus on come/came variation in London. \nResponsibilities included: Extracting and coding

  analyzing quantitative data.\n\nPhonology of Quebec English: Analysis of short-a in Quebec English. \n\n

  Research Assistant

  University of Ottawa

  Ottawa

  LIN2304: Writing Systems (fall 2016)\nLIN1300: What is language? (fall 2016)\nLIN2310: Introduction to Syntactic Theory

  University of Ottawa (winter 2016)\nLIN1340: Language in Society

  University of Ottawa (winter 2016)\nLIN3342: Sociolinguistics

  University of Ottawa (fall 2015)\nLIN2360: Bilingualism

  University of Ottawa (fall 2015)\nLIN1310: Introduction to Linguistics: Words and Utterances

  University of Ottawa (winter 2014)\n\nEnrichment mini-courses program (EMCP): Unraveling the mystery of variation in speech: Introduction to Sociolinguistics

  University of Ottawa (2014)\n\nESL Instructor

  Cégep Bois-de-Boulogne

  Montréal (2007-2008)\n\n

  Part-time professor

  University of Ottawa

  Ottawa

  Canada Area

  Program Officer/ Senior Planning and Performance Analyst

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

  Ottawa

  LIN2358: Communication Disorders

  University of Ottawa (winter 2015)\nLIN1710: Introduction à la linguistique : Des mots aux énoncés

  University of Ottawa (fall 2014)\nLIN3342: Sociolinguistics

  University of Ottawa (fall 2011)\nLIN3350: Psycholinguistics

  University of Ottawa (winter 2011)\nLIN2358: Communication Disorders

  University of Ottawa (winter 2011)\nLIN1601: Introduction à l’analyse linguistique

  UQÀM (fall 2009)\n

  Teaching Assistant

  University of Ottawa

  Kitchener/Montreal/Ottawa

  Customer Relations Representative

  Rogers Communications