About

Who is Emily?

Good question! She's a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto with far too many interests and an inability to say no to side projects! She describes herself as a psycho-socio-phonetician. Her research focuses on speech perception and voice memory, sociolinguistics of gender and sexuality, change and variation of morphosyntactic elements, and loves anything to do with language play!

Also, she likes talking about herself in the third person.

Want to see her CV? Click here.

What do you like besides linguistics?

Way to ask the hard questions. Hmm, well I've always had a decent amount of wanderlust and enjoying travelling whenever I can. The next big location on my bucket list is Antartica, but that one is going to take some work! One of my favourite perks in academia, however, is travelling to places for conferences that I never would have normally chosen for myself. I've discovered so many wonderful cities this way and can't wait to discover more!

Other than travel I enjoy gaming of all varieties, particularly cooperative games and D&D, and just generally geeking out on the internet! I read a lot, will dance pretty much any night away, and love singing badly at karaoke. I love all aspects of story-telling, whether as a consumer or a producer. Theatre, musicals, sketch comedy, ballets, books, and games: I love to both consume these things and take part in making them happen. At the moment, my friend Becky Laturnus and I are working on several children's books, so check back for more details soon!

How do you pronounce your last name?

First point to remember, it's an English name, not a French one, so it's not /'bla.miɹ/. (Though I've heard that so much I will definitely respond to it.) Apparently I have family in England who do pronounce the first syllable as /'bla/ but all my family in Canada uses the above pronunciation, with /blej/ as the first syllable. And if you need help remembering it's an English name, then just know that Blamire mean "black mire" (or as my dad always like to say "we're from a darky swampy place") and it doesn't get much more English than that!

Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

-Noam Chomsky