Biography
Erin Callahan teaches classes in linguistics, TESOL, and English Education at WCU.
She received her B.A. in Linguistics at Yale University, where she did fieldwork in
the French West Indies on Guadeloupe Creole, and her M.A. in English from N.C. State.
She grew up in Charlotte (N.C.) and is a proud, native North Carolinian. She has taught
high school Spanish, French, and English as a Second Language (ESL) in the public
school systems in Durham and Granville Counties and English as a Foreign Language
(EFL) at the Summer Institute in English at NC State University and at a bilingual
school in Querétaro, México. She has worked as a journalist at alternative weekly
newspapers in Stamford, CT and Charlotte, NC. She is a former rugby player, current
beagle-lover, and longtime documentary film buff.
Teaching Interests
Linguistics (sociolinguistics, contact varieties, Hispanicized/Latinx varieties of
English); TESOL; English Grammar
Research Interests
Ethnic Dialects of English, Language Variation and Change, Sociolinguistics and Second
Language Acquisition, Contact Linguistics
