Biography

Jeremy Calder (known among friends as Novelí) is a Chicanx genderfluid individual, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Affiliate Faculty in the Departments of Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, and Women & Gender Studies. Their work straddles the fields of sociocultural linguistics and linguistic anthropology, using a combination of sociophonetic methods and semiotic theory to explore the performance and construction of marginalized identity in communities of queer/trans and BIPOC individuals. Their work has appeared in Language in Society, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. They are currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Handsome Women: non-binary language, gender, and embodied style in a San Francisco drag community.