Department of English Language and Literature
Directory
Tracey L. Weldon
| Title: | Professor Interim Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Faculty Development |
| Department: | English Language and Literature / Linguistics College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | weldont@mailbox.sc.edu |
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| Resources: | Linguistics Program |
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 1998
B.A. in English and French (cum laude), Furman University, 1991
Areas of Specialization
Quantitative Sociolinguistics
Language Variation
African American English, Gullah
Undergraduate Teaching
African-American English
Introduction to Language
Introduction to Language Sciences
Language and Gender
Language in the USA
The English Language
Graduate Teaching
African-American English
Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Seminar on Language Variation
Survey of Linguistics
Varieties of American English
Books
2021. Middle Class African American English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1994. Jannedy, Stefanie, Robert Poletto, Tracey Weldon, eds. The Language Files. 6th edition. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Recent Articles
Forthcoming. The roots of African American English. New Cambridge History of the English Language. Derek Denis, Raymond Hickey, and Natalie Schilling, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2023. Voices from the field: Language Variation. The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. NPS.gov.
2022. Visibly Invisible: The study of middle class African American English. Language and linguistics compass.
2022. Vignette “My black is bougie: Middle class African American English and why it matters.” In Talking College: Making Space for Black Language Practices in Higher Education. Anne Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz, eds. New York: Teachers College Press. 32-34.
2019. Race, class, and linguistic camouflage: Remote past BEEN and the divergence debate revisited. The Routledge companion to the work of John R. Rickford. Renee Blake and Isabella Buchstaller, eds. New York: Routledge. 115-132.
2015. Britt, Erica and Tracey Weldon. African American English and the Middle Class. Oxford Handbook of African American Language.New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 800-816.
2015. Weldon, Tracey and Simanique Moody. The place of Gullah in the African American linguistic continuum. Oxford Handbook of African American Language.New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 163-180.
Editorial Boards
2023-2025. Executive Editor and Advisory Board Member. Oxford Dictionary of African American English. Oxford University Press. Editor-in Chief: Henry Louis Gates.
2022-2023. Advisory Board Member. Oxford Dictionary of African American English. Oxford University Press. Editor-in Chief: Henry Louis Gates.
Documentary
2017. “Talking Black in America.” Associate Producer. Language and Life Project. Executive Producer: Walt Wolfram.