Julia Cox

• BA Classics, University of Kentucky; MA Linguistics, University of Kentucky
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Academic and Research Interests: Immigration propaganda and language, Global Separatist Groups, Social infrastructures of diaspora communities, Language and race/gender/sexuality, Language and Bodies, Multimodal critical discourse analysis

Select Publications: “A Fat Imposter: The Embodied Intersection of Race, Body Type and Fatness in Margaret Cho’s Standup Comedy” (2021, MA Thesis)

Select Conference Presentation:“Your joke isn’t Funny: Language Change since #MeToo and the Third Wave of Feminism” Central
Kentucky Linguistics Conference (CKLiC), February 2020
“A Covert Prestige in Traditionally Male Spaces: Usage of Masculine Language Indices in Women’s
Stand-Up Comedy Routines” University of Alabama Languages Conference (UA Languages
Conference), February 2020
“The Use of Masculine Linguistic Indices in Women’s Stand-Up Comedy Routines” Linguistics
Conference at the University of Georgia (LCUGA6), October 2019
“The Use of Masculine Linguistic Features in Women’s Stand-Up Comedy Routines” Central
Kentucky Linguistics Conference (CKLiC), February 2019
“Roman Romance in the Eyes of Satirists: Martial and Iuvenal on Seeking a Mate, Marriage, and
Adultery” Senior Capstone presentation and defense, University of Kentucky (UK). May 2018

Volunteer, Practicum, and Work Experience:2014-2017: Early childhood education
2018-2019: Writing tutor for Writing, Rhetoric and Digital studies department @UKy
2019-2021: instructor of record in Writing, Rhetoric and Digital studies department @UKy
Spring 2022- Spring 2023: Adjunct instructor teaching intro to Linguistics (ENGL/ANTH 390) and Language and Bodies (ENGL/GWS 391 exclusively fall 2022) at Virginia Commonwealth University