Christina Bjorndahl

A writer is someone who writes I used to think that one either was or was not a writer. In other words, one was gifted with a muse, or...

When the pandemic first hit and everything moved to remote teaching, I remember thinking that I would have a lot to blog about. Suddenly...

At the end of Typology this past fall, I had students do a concept map, and based on my experience with that, I think it'll be my new...

Well, as is perhaps obvious from the lack of updates after week 6, things got rather busy in the last half of the Spring semester. But,...

This is the time of year when I keep a steady supply of chocolate and tissues in my office, because student meetings often turn into some...

We're now at the end of week 6, and things are ramping up and progressing well, though we hit a couple of small snags along the way. IRB...

This semester I'm teaching Phonetics & Phonology II, a third year class at CMU. I've taught this course before (3 times, in fact!) but...

Yesterday I was a presenter for the "Lightning Talk" session at the 2018 CMU Teaching & Learning Summit. The format was akin to 'speed...

Today I will talk about the shooting that happened at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill. What follows is what I'm planning to...

I teach a large introductory linguistics class, called Nature of Language (NoL). It's capped at 120, and after the first couple weeks of...

The following is the first part of the Acknowledgments of my dissertation. One night when I was putting my then 3-year old son,...