ALUMNA REPORT: TERESA GRUBB

Teresa Grubb completed the BA in linguistics at UCSC in the spring of 2011, earning University Honors cum laude. In her final quarters, she completed a research project on the neglected topic of the syntax of vocative expressions in English (a project which she began in the Spring 2010 offering of Syntax 2, taught by Jim McCloskey). Much of the data for the project came from experiments using the Mechanical Turk framework, and as far as is known, Teresa’s project was among the first undergraduate projects at UCSC to make use of this resource. Following her graduation, she entered the doctoral program in linguistics at Tulane University, where she has just earned the PhD with a dissertation entitled “Concerning American parenthetical expressions in syntax”, which further develops many of the themes of her undergraduate project. The dissertation will shortly be made available for download by Proquest. Teresa is currently living in Seattle, where she is enjoying life and considering her next career move.