Rusty Barrett is an American

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and Professor of Linguistics at the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's ...

. With

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, he is the editor of the ''Oxford Handbook on Language and Sexuality''. With Jennifer Cramer and Kevin B. McGowan, he published the revised third edition of

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's textbook ''English with an Accent.'' His work has primarily focused on

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and Language, Gender and Sexuality.

Education and research

Barrett earned a B.A. in Russian language and literature from Trinity University, in San Antonio, Texas, and he received both an

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and

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(1999) in Linguistics from the

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. His Ph.D. dissertation is titled, ''A grammar of Sipakapense Maya.'' He co-convened the

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Summer Institute at the University of Kentucky in 2017.

Honors

Barrett received the

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Award from the

in 2022. Barrett was senior editor of ''Oxford Research Review in Linguistics'' 2012–2015, served on the editorial board of ''

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'' 2007–2015, ''

Gender and Language ''Gender and Language'' is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal for language-based research on gender and sexuality from feminist, queer, and trans perspectives. Gender and Language is currently one of the few academic journals to whic ...

'' 2011–2020, and ''Western Journal of Communication'' 2014.

Selected publications

Books

* Barrett, Rusty, Jennifer Cramer, and Kevin B. McGowan. 2022. ''English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States.'' Third Edition. Taylor & Francis. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003332886 * Barrett, Rusty. 2017. ''From drag queens to leathermen: Language, gender, and gay male subcultures.'' Oxford University Press. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390179.001.0001

Edited books

* Hall, Kira; Barrett, Rusty, eds. 2018. ''Language and sexuality''. Oxford Handbooks Online.

References

External links

Rusty Barrett's home page (as of June 2023)
Linguists from the United States American academics Trinity University (Texas) alumni University of Texas at Austin alumni University of Kentucky faculty Living people American LGBTQ scientists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-linguist-stub