Clare J. Dannenberg

Clare J. Dannenberg specializes in language variation research and is the Director of the Linguistics Speech Lab within the English Department. Clare has taught various courses, including Language and Society, English Syntax, and Langauge and Gender, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Currently, she is working towards the implementation of the Dialect Awareness Curriculum, designed to raise consciousness about language variation and its consequences in United States Englishes for freshman English classes at Virginia Tech and for teachers and students in the Montgomery County School system. Clare additionally continues to focus her research on how identity for disenfranchised groups in the United States is continually negotiated through language use.