Jeffrey Reaser

Jeffrey Reaser

Assistant Professor
Tompkins 217
919/515-4176 (office)
jlreaser at ncsu dot edu


Education

B.A. in Secondary English Education, Magna Cum Laude, North Carolina State University, 1995-1999

M.A. in English, North Carolina State University, 2000-2001

Ph.D. in English-Linguistics, Duke University, 2002-2006


Research Interests

Expansion of the Voices of North Carolina curriculum in scope and distribution through a series of teacher workshops.

Developing psychometrically valid instruments for evaluating the language attitudes of students and teachers as well as the changes to these attitudes though education.


Bio

Jeffrey Reaser is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. His primary appointment is in the secondary teacher education program (LTN) with a secondary appointment in linguistics. He is also the director of the Alternative Licensure program for Language Arts at NC State. His research has focused on the development, testing, and distribution of materials designed to allow teachers to teach about language variation in public schools and in professional development settings. He served as Materials Developer for the Do You Speak American? Secondary School Curriculum (2005) and College-Level Curriculum (2005) (http://www.pbs.org/speak/education/). With Walt Wolfram he is author of Voices of North Carolina: Language and Life from the Atlantic to the Appalachians (2005), which includes a Teachers manual (link when we there is one?), student workbook (link when we there is one?), and resource DVDs. He is also author, with Carolyn Temple Adger and Susan Hoyle of Using Do You Speak American? for Educator Training and Professional Development: Guide and Materials (2005). Current projects involve expansion of the Voices of North Carolina curriculum in scope and distribution and developing psychometrically valid instruments for evaluating the language attitudes of students and teachers as well as the changes to these attitudes though education. He holds a Ph.D. in English-Linguistics from Duke University (2006) and an M.A. in English (2001) and B.A. in Secondary English Education (1999) from NC State University.


Recent Publications

Reaser, Jeffrey, and Carolyn Temple Adger. Forthcoming. Developing Language Awareness Materials for Non-Linguists: Lessons Learned from the Do You Speak American? Project. To appear in Language and Linguistic Compass.

Reaser, Jeffrey. Forthcoming. Enclave Englishes in the Bahamas. In Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar Schneider, and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.) The Lesser-known Varieties of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

_____. Forthcoming. Dialect and Education. In Amy Clark and Nancy Hayward (eds.), Talkin’ Appalachian. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.

_____, and Carolyn Temple Adger. Forthcoming. Dialect Diversity in the Classroom: Research and Development. In B. Spolsky and FM Hult (eds), Handbook of Educational Linguistics. Malden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell.

Thomas, Erik R. and Jeffrey Reaser. Forthcoming. An Experiment on Cues Used for Identification of Voices as African American or European American. Proceedings from the Third Decennial Language Variation in the South Conference. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Reaser, Jeffrey. 2006. The Effect of Dialect Awareness on Adolescent Knowledge and Attitudes. Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University.

Wolfram, Walt, and Jeffrey Reaser. 2006. Language Tells North Carolina History. Tar Heel Junior Historian.

Reaser, Jeffrey, and Benjamin Torbert. 2005. Bahamian English: Morphology and Syntax. In Bernd Kortmann and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), A Handbook of Varieties of English, Vol. 2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 391-406.


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Courses

ENG 328: Language and Writing
ENG 326: History of the English Language
ENG 325: Spoken and Written Traditions of American Dialects


Interests

Rock climbing, volleyball, yard work


Awards and Honors

North Carolina Public Schools, Secondary English, Teaching License (SP-I), 2006-

American Dialect Society Presidential Honorary Membership Award, 2004

University fellowship, Duke University, 2002-2006

Teaching Assistantship, NC State, 2000-2001

Research Assistantship, NC State, 2000-2001

B.A. Magna Cum Laude, with honors in English, NC State, 1999

Golden Key National Honor Society, 1996

Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, 1995