Instructor, Linguistics
Internship Coordinator
Spring 2024 Office Hours: By appointment — book my calendar here!
Anna Marie Trester joined the Boise State Department of Linguistics in Spring 2023 as the inaugural instructor for our career readiness course, LING 482. Dr. Trester founded Career Linguist in 2013. As the author of Bringing Linguistics to Work and Employing Linguistics for Bloomsbury Press, she speaks and gives workshops as Career Linguist and with organizational partners PIER Consulting Group, The FrameWorks Institute, and Anecdote International.
Prior to joining FrameWorks, she served as the director of the MA in Language and Communication (MLC) program for the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University, where she worked with students to apply their sociolinguistic training to professional contexts. She has taught courses at Georgetown University, Howard University, University of Maryland, University College, and Boise State. Her courses have covered cross-cultural communication, language and social media, and the ethnography of communication.
As an applied sociolinguist, Anna has research interests in improvisation, performance, narrative, intertextuality, professional self-presentation, language and identity, language in social media, and the language of business. She is the co-editor (with renowned linguistics professor Deborah Tannen) of Discourse 2.0, published in 2013 by Georgetown University Press. Anna was profiled by the Linguistics Society of America in its December, 2014, member spotlight. She received her MA from New York University and her PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University.
Education
- Ph.D., Linguistics, Georgetown
- M.A., Linguistics, New York University
- B.A., English, University of Arizona
Interests
Career readiness and professional self presentation.
Books
Courses
- LING 293/493: Internships
- LING 482: Employing Linguistics
- LING 424: Ethnography of Communication