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Linguistics Careercast

Linguistics Careercast

Linguistics Careercast

Linguistics Careercast is the podcast devoted to exploring careers for linguists outside academia, through interviews with linguists employed in industry.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Linguistics Careercast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Linguistics Careercast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Linguistics Careercast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Linguistics Careercast - Episode #2: Marc Ettlinger

Episode #2: Marc Ettlinger

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09/05/22 • 55 min

“When you’re looking for a job, you have to get used to things not working out – it’s a numbers game.”

Marc Ettlinger is a linguist who is currently employed as a Linguistic Engineering Manager at Meta in California. He received a BA in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University and a PhD in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 2008. Since then he’s been employed in the public and private sector as a linguist specializing in data research and analysis for machine learning, NLP systems, and AI.

Marc Ettlinger at LinkedIn

Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

ARLIS, Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (formerly CASL, Center for Advanced Study of Language)

Topics covered:

– Neuroscience – Engineering – Government – Job hopping – Research – Data science – Psychological journey to industry

Download the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu

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Linguistics Careercast - Episode #1: Anne Krook (LCL audio)
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09/05/22 • 45 min

“Find a champion. Find someone who smiles, but is ruthless.”

This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021, and the moderator is Nancy Frishberg.

Our guest is Anne Krook: She is a former academic who transitioned successfully to the corporate and nonprofit workplaces: she helps graduate students and postdocs transition to non-academic workplaces and helps undergraduate humanities majors translate their skills into jobs. She works with companies and organizations on integrating younger women into the workplace, preparing them for success, and coaching them on interacting with colleagues.

She’s got a book called “Now What Do I Say?”: Practical Workplace Advice for Younger Women.

Her website is annekrook.com. Links to her website and other resources are in the show notes.

Topics covered:

– Faculty advice – How to talk to faculty about leaving academia – Student placement – UX – Translation – Conversational design – NLP

Download the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu

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Linguistics Careercast - Episode #49: Emily Pace

Episode #49: Emily Pace

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06/11/24 • 73 min

“It was a wake-up call – my marriage is more important to me than that job”

Emily Pace has a breadth of experience across the non-profit, public, and private sectors, including at several technology companies, the National Association of Attorneys General, the Close Up Foundation, and the Library of Congress. She was one of the leaders of Linguistics Career Launch 2021 and is now heading up Linguistics Career Launch 2024. Emily holds a B.A. in French and Arabic and an M.S. in Theoretical Linguistics, both from Georgetown University, as well as certificates from the Paris Chamber of Commerce and the Paris Institute of Political Studies.

Emily Pace on LinkedIn

Linguistics Career Launch 2024

Topics include

– computational linguistics – corpus linguistics – annotation – NLP – networking – sabbaticals – LCL24

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Linguistics Careercast - Episode #44: Brad Davidson

Episode #44: Brad Davidson

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04/02/24 • 79 min

“We all end up training ourselves throughout our careers”

Brad Davidson is a linguist and medical anthropologist with extensive experience in marketing, positioning, branding, and overall customer and patient provider experience. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University and worked as a professional namer, before moving into life sciences and healthcare marketing. He’s currently employed as the SVP of Medical Anthropology at Havas Health, and hosts the podcast Breaking the Code.

Content warning – there are some swears, and discussions of medical conditions and treatments.

Brad Davidson on LinkedIn

Breaking the Code podcast

Topics include

– applied linguistics – medical anthropology – medical linguistics – naming – branding – networking – research – medical communication

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Linguistics Careercast - Episode #48: Alexandra Botti

Episode #48: Alexandra Botti

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05/28/24 • 65 min

“Linguistics has given me frameworks to build my career on, and to get wildly creative within those frameworks”

Alexandra Botti is a radio and podcast producer, sociolinguist, ballet dancer and ballet teacher. She is a dual citizen of the United States and France, and grew up primarily in the Boston area; she holds a Master’s degree in Language and Communication from Georgetown University. After embarking on a career in journalism, she worked for multiple media outlets including WAMU, WNYC Radio, and NPR. She is currently employed as a supervising producer at Axios.

Alex Botti on LinkedIn

Alex Botti’s website

Topics include

– bilingualism – discourse analysis – public radio – journalism – framing – storytelling – audio production – dance – sociolinguistics

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Linguistics Careercast - Episode #6: Aine McAlinden

Episode #6: Aine McAlinden

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10/11/22 • 48 min

“I’m in the middle of my journey from coursework to career.”

Aine McAlinden is a recent graduate from Georgetown University’s Master’s in Language and Communication who is currently transitioning to a career in conversational design. She has experience in discourse analysis, professional communications, and social justice work, and she is also the host and creator of the podcast Language • n • Justice.

Aine McAlinden at LinkedIn

Topics covered:

– Sociolinguistics – Conversation design – UI and UX – Informational interviews – Dialogue design

Download the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu

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Linguistics Careercast - Episode #14: David Peterson and Jessie Sams
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01/31/23 • 57 min

“There are jobs that you could never have imagined – and they’re possible.”

David Peterson received a master’s degree in Linguistics from UC San Diego in 2005 and he’s been creating languages since 2000. He served as a cofounder and original board member of the Language Creation Society, and served as its president from 2011 to 2014. He has worked as a language creator on numerous television shows and films, including HBO’s Game of Thrones, Netflix’s The Witcher, the CW’s The 100, and Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon. In the fall of 2015 he published his nonfiction work The Art of Language Invention with Penguin Books.

Jessie Sams got her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Colorado Boulder, and until recently was a professor of linguistics at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, where she created a conlanging course and taught students how to construct a language from the ground up. She is now a full-time professional conlanger and works with David Peterson.

David Peterson on LinkedIn

Jessie Sams on LinkedIn

David Peterson, The Art of Language Invention

Language Creation Society

LangTime Studio on YouTube

Topics include – language creation – conlanging – grad school – Hollywood – language learning

Download a transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu

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Linguistics Careercast - Episode #5: Ginny Redish (LCL audio)
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09/27/22 • 47 min

“The career you have in 20 years may not exist today.”

This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021, and the moderator is Nancy Frishberg. Our guest is Janice (Ginny) Redish, who has had an exciting and fulfilling career applying her love of linguistics to making written materials easy for the people who must use them. Over the decades since she finished her Ph.D., Ginny has led teams turning government regulations into question-and-answer conversations, revolutionizing user manuals to be task-oriented and user-oriented, and giving website visitors what they need in well-organized plain language. She has also written numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as 3 books:

Letting Go of Words User and Task Analysis for Interface Design A Practical Guide to Usability Testing

Ginny Redish’s website

Topics covered:

– Document design – Non-profits – Job titles – Content strategy – UX writing

Download the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu

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Linguistics Careercast - Episode #42: Daniel Ginsberg

Episode #42: Daniel Ginsberg

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02/20/24 • 61 min

“Networking is mutual aid.”

Daniel Ginsberg is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the American Anthropological Association, where they bring their knowledge of association management and organizational anthropology to help association leaders understand the culture of the AAA community and create new pathways into active, engaged membership. For the previous four years as Director of Education and Professional Practice, they oversaw the AAA’s professional development and public outreach efforts, including nonformal education such as internships, workshops and mentoring, as well as informal education such as career development resources, youth outreach and webinars. They have taught as an adjunct professor in the American University departments of anthropology and world languages & cultures, and as a public high school ESL teacher. They also serve on the Program Committee at the LSA.

Daniel Ginsberg on LinkedIn

Annals of Anthropological Practice, vol 47 #1

American Association of Applied Linguistics

World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration

Topics include

– anthropology – TESOL – networking – Center for Applied Linguistics – post docs – AAAL – project management – non-formal education

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Linguistics Careercast - Episode #10: Joseph Tyler

Episode #10: Joseph Tyler

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12/06/22 • 63 min

“Why am I doing all this free labor?”

Joseph Tyler is is a conversational designer at Uber, where he designs, builds, and delivers multi-modal conversational interactions for mobile, web and chat interfaces. He finished his PhD in linguistics in 2012 at the University of Michigan. He then did a psycholinguistics postdoc in Kentucky and was an assistant professor in Qatar before leaving academia, moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, and exploring work opportunities in tech. Prior to Uber, his primary design experience was 4.5 years with the avatar-driven conversation platform and health tech startup Sensely.

Joseph Tyler at LinkedIn and his blog

Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program at Michigan

Anna Marie Trester/Career Linguist

Jen Polk

What Color is Your Parachute – The flower exercise

Topics covered:

– Conversational AI – Conversation designer – NLP – Meetups – Networking – Chatbots

Download a transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu

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FAQ

How many episodes does Linguistics Careercast have?

Linguistics Careercast currently has 60 episodes available.

What topics does Linguistics Careercast cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education, Business and Careers.

What is the most popular episode on Linguistics Careercast?

The episode title 'Episode #2: Marc Ettlinger' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Linguistics Careercast?

The average episode length on Linguistics Careercast is 60 minutes.

How often are episodes of Linguistics Careercast released?

Episodes of Linguistics Careercast are typically released every 13 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Linguistics Careercast?

The first episode of Linguistics Careercast was released on Sep 5, 2022.

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