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Email
esbrozovsky@wpi.edu
Education
B.A., Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., English, The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., English (Specialization: Sociolinguistics), The University of Texas at Austin

Erica Brozovsky is a sociolinguist, a public scholar, and a lover of words. Her research and teaching interests include language variation and change, bicultural rhetoric, and Asian American studies. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Brozovsky hosts and writes for Otherwords, a PBS series on language and linguistics, and hosts Crash Course’s virtual course How to College. She is also currently writing a book on the sociocultural history and status of literacy. Before coming to WPI, Dr. Brozovsky served as Program Coordinator for Stories Within, a mini-documentary series highlighting Asian Texan voices, and sat on the national board of the Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL) as Director of Programming.

Woman with dark hair and eyes, slight smile
Email
esbrozovsky@wpi.edu
Education
B.A., Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., English, The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., English (Specialization: Sociolinguistics), The University of Texas at Austin

Erica Brozovsky is a sociolinguist, a public scholar, and a lover of words. Her research and teaching interests include language variation and change, bicultural rhetoric, and Asian American studies. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Brozovsky hosts and writes for Otherwords, a PBS series on language and linguistics, and hosts Crash Course’s virtual course How to College. She is also currently writing a book on the sociocultural history and status of literacy. Before coming to WPI, Dr. Brozovsky served as Program Coordinator for Stories Within, a mini-documentary series highlighting Asian Texan voices, and sat on the national board of the Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL) as Director of Programming.

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NPR
The story of 'synergy,' the word we love to hate

Erica Brozovsky, a sociolinguist and adjunct teaching professor in the Department of Humanities & Arts, was featured in NPR’s Word of the Week segment. She helped break down how the word synergy became a corporate buzzword that’s lost its meaning.

 

The Mozilla Blog
IYKYK: The secret language of memes

Erica Brozovsky, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Humanities & Arts, authored a piece for The Mozilla Blog which helps tell the history of internet memes. In the piece, Brozovsky outlines how memes represent shared online experiences and human connection.

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