Julia Cox
M.A. in Migration and Diaspora Studies (entry 2025)
- 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:鈥淵our joke isn鈥檛 Funny: Language Change since #MeToo and the Third Wave of Feminism鈥 Central
Kentucky Linguistics Conference (CKLiC), February 2020
鈥淎 Covert Prestige in Traditionally Male Spaces: Usage of Masculine Language Indices in Women鈥檚
Stand-Up Comedy Routines鈥 University of Alabama Languages Conference (UA Languages
Conference), February 2020
鈥淭he Use of Masculine Linguistic Indices in Women鈥檚 Stand-Up Comedy Routines鈥 Linguistics
Conference at the University of Georgia (LCUGA6), October 2019
鈥淭he Use of Masculine Linguistic Features in Women鈥檚 Stand-Up Comedy Routines鈥 Central
Kentucky Linguistics Conference (CKLiC), February 2019
鈥淩oman Romance in the Eyes of Satirists: Martial and Iuvenal on Seeking a Mate, Marriage, and
Adultery鈥 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