Laura Moquin

Area(s) of Study: Language contact and change. Historical and contemporary sociolinguistics. Language and identity. Language attitudes and ideologies.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

About: Laura is a Ph.D. student building a sociolinguistic dissertation project that examines Norwegian-influenced contact phenomena in varieties of regional American English, and the relationship of those features to notions of regional and heritage identity. She currently works as Editorial Assistant for Papers of the Algonquian Conference and Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

Education:

– University of Wisconsin-Madison, MA in Scandinavian Studies (2019)
– University of Texas at Austin, BA in Anthropology (2010) and BFA in Studio Art (2010)

Courses Taught:

– SCAN ST 101: First Semester Norwegian (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
– SCAN ST 102: Second Semester Norwegian (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)

Awards:

• Wisconsin Idea Award; The University of Wisconsin-Madison — 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
• SRGC Conference Presentation Grant; The University of Wisconsin-Madison — 2018
• FLAS Fellowship to study Icelandic for the 2017-2018 academic year.
• L&S Community of Graduate Research Scholars Fellowship; The University of Wisconsin-Madison — 2016-2017
• Torger Thompson Fund Summer Scholarship; The University of Wisconsin-Madison — 2016

Publications:

• Forthcoming. Laura Moquin & David Natvig. Paths to Postvernacularity in Norwegian-Speaking Communities in the American Midwest. In Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas: Tracing the Development from Immigrant Languages to Postvernacularity, ed. by Anita Auer, Josh Brown & Angela Hoffman. Leiden: Brill.
• 2023. Laura Moquin & Kirsten Wolf. Language and Identity: The Case of North American Icelandic. In The Icelandic Heritage in America, ed. by Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskuldur Thráinsson & Úlfar Bragason, 271-291. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press.
• 2020. Laura Moquin & Joseph Salmons. American Norwegian Discourse Marking: Convergence, Detachability, Pragmatic Change. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa),11(2). 303-318. Special issue, ed. by Kristin Hagen, Arnstein Hjelde, Karine Stjernholm & Øystein Vangsnes. Bauta: Memorial volume for Janne Bondi Johannessen. https://doi.org/10.5617/osla.8505
• 2020. Laura Moquin & Joseph Salmons. Scandinavian-American English over Time: Stereotypes and Regionalization. Ampersand. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2020.100064
• 2019. Laura Moquin. Language and Morality in Norwegian-American Newspapers: Reform in Eau Claire, WI. In Selected Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 9), ed. by Kelly Biers and Joshua R. Brown, 64-71. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #3489. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wila/9/abstract3489.html