PhD, English, Linguistics concentration, Duke University MA, English, Linguistics concentration, North Carolina State University BA, Classical Languages, Duke University
About
A sociolinguist, Benjamin Torbert studies English language variety in North America and the Caribbean, especially regional and socioethnic dimensions of language variation. He has authored and co-authored publications on language variety in American Speech, Southern Journal of Linguistics, the de Gruyter World Atlas of Varieties of English, and in other venues. Other interests include pedagogy in the teaching of Linguistics, syntax in English-language literature, and portrayals of vernacular speakers in television and in film.
