Marie Tano

Marie Tano is a PhD student in Stanford’s Linguistics department. She holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Pomona College, with a double minor in Linguistics and Africana Studies. As a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, her senior thesis examined how Black-accented speakers are affected by reverse linguistic stereotyping, and how online uses of African-American English further anti-Black stereotypes. She has also co-authored a manuscript with Dr. Nicole Holliday titled ““It’s a Whole Vibe”: testing evaluations of grammatical and ungrammatical AAE on Twitter.” She is especially interested in applying psycholinguistic approaches to this question of what it means to “sound Black,” as well as understanding how language is used to perform gender and sexuality.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4470-5702
Stanford Profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/marie-tano
Personal Website: http://mariemmanue.github.io
Twitter: www.twitter.com/sociauxling
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-emmanue/