Who We Are

Betsy Rymes

Betsy Rymes is Professor of Educational Linguistics at The University of Pennsylvania.  She is committed to finding the best ways to share collective grass-roots insights about language and she’s almost certain that this practice contributes to the world in positive ways. She hopes this Website will function as a modern-day digital version of the analog 1980’s ‘zines (homemade, zeroxed, paper magazines with contributions from all over the world)—fostering the creativity and collaborative genius of everyday people exploring language around them. 

Peizhu Liu

Peizhu Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.  Her research interest lies in Chinese-English dual language education. She is interested in language ideology and people’s language use in the multilingual world. 

Eunsun Lee

Eunsun Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interest lies in issues of language education and multilingualism in Korea. She believes she learns more from walking around the city and noticing novel language uses than from reading textbook analyses of language.

Sydney Negus

Sydney Negus is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interest is in discourses around English Learners in the School District of Philadelphia, and in how discourses form in organizations.