Curriculum Vitae

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Below is a glimpse of what you'll find on my full curriculum vitae.

Employment

Chapman University, Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-present)
USC, Dornsife Fellow in General Education (2022-2024)
UCSB, Lecturer (2020)
Amazon, Language Engineer Intern (2018)

Education

Ph.D., Linguistics from University of Southern California (2022)
M.A., Linguistics from University of Southern California (2015)
B.A., Linguistics from University of Michigan (2011)

Awards

Best Student Paper Award (1st place), Acoustical Society of America (Speech Communication), 2019
Best Student Paper Award (2nd place), Acoustical Society of America (Musical Acoustics), 2018
University Outstanding Teaching Award, April 2018
Excellence in Teaching Award, November 2017
Provost's Mentored Teaching Fellowship, 2016-2017 academic year

Selected publications

Christina Bjorndahl, Lynsey Wolter, Reed Blaylock, Evan D. Bradley, Ann Bunger, Kristin Denham, Jessica A. Grieser, Kazuko Hiramatsu, Wesley Y. Leonard, Michal Temkin Martinez. (2024). “Increasing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Linguistics Through Small Teaching.” American Speech 1 May 2024; 99 (2): 238–260. [https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-11255052]
Reed Blaylock, Ramida Phoolsombat, and Kaila Mullady. (2023). "Speech and beatboxing cooperate and compromise in beatrhyming." Frontiers in Communication, 8. [link]
Reed Blaylock and Shrikanth S. Narayanan. (2023). "Beatboxing Kick Drum Kinematics." Interspeech 2023, 2583-2587. [link]
Reed Blaylock. (2023). "Why Beatboxing?" Proceedings of the 7th Asian Junior Linguists Conference (AJL7), 13-25. [link]
Reed Blaylock. (2022). Beatboxing Phonology. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2728251686). [link]
Masaki Fukuda, Kousei Kimura, Reed Blaylock, and Seunghun Lee. (2022). "Scope of Beatrhyming: Segments or Words." Proceedings of the 6th Asian Junior Linguistics Conference (Sogang University, Seoul, Korea/online). [link]
Reed Blaylock. (2021). "From 'Hello world!' to Fourier transformations: Teaching Linguistics undergraduates to code in ten weeks or less." Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America 6(2). 5135. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i2.5135
Reed Blaylock, Evan Bradley, Ann Bunger, and Taylor Sharp. (2021). "Emergency Remote Teaching in Linguistics: LSA COVID-19 Survey and Results." Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America 6(2). 5111. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i2.5111
Linguistic Society of America Faculty Learning Community on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for Linguists. 2020, August 13. "Scholarly Teaching in Linguistics." [https://tinyurl.com/ScholarlyTeachingInLinguistics]
Reed Blaylock, Nimisha Patil, Timothy Greer, and Shrikanth Narayanan. (2017). Sounds of the Human Vocal Tract. INTERSPEECH, 2287–2291. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1631 [link]
Nimisha Patil, Timothy Greer, Reed Blaylock, and Shrikanth Narayanan. (2017). Comparison of Basic Beatboxing Articulations Between Expert and Novice Artists using Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging. INTERSPEECH, 2277–2281. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1190 [link]
Reed Blaylock, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2016). Velum control in oral sounds. Interspeech. [link]
Reed Blaylock. (2016). Driving Derived Environment Effects with Alignment Constraints. Annual Meeting in Phonology (AMP). [link]
Reed Blaylock. (2015). Unifying Morphologically-Derived Environment Effects and Blocking. Proceedings of NELS 45, 91-104. [link]

Invited talks and plenary presentations

Reed Blaylock. December 2022. "Beatboxing Phonology." The Asian Junior Linguists Conference (AJL7). International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
Reed Blaylock. September 2022. "Phonological harmony in beatboxing." Journée Arts-Sciences-Santé BEATBOX. Hosted by GIPSA-lab, LPNC, and LIG. Grenoble, France (via Zoom). [link, presentation starts at 2:45:27]
Reed Blaylock. June 2021. "Breaking Down the Beat: Beatboxing phonetics and phonology." International Christian University Linguistics Colloquium. Tokyo (via Zoom).
January 2021. Scholarly Teaching in the Age of COVID-19 and Beyond. Special session at the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting 2021.
Reed Blaylock. November 2019. "Breaking Down the Beat: Beatboxing for Speech Scientists." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, SIG-19 (Speech Science).

Posters and talks

Linguistics Society of America Faculty Learning Community on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for Linguists. (2022). "Small Teaching toward Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion." Special Session at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America.
Reed Blaylock, Nimisha Patil, Timothy Greer, and Shrikanth Narayanan. 2021. "Breaking Down the Beat: The Art and Science of Beatboxing." LingComm21.
Reed Blaylock. (2020). The Science of Singing. Pedagogical Approaches to Laboratory Phonology, workshop at LabPhon 17 (Vancouver/online).
Reed Blaylock, Ramida Phoolsombat. (2019). Beatrhyming probes the nature of the interface between phonology and beatboxing. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, 3081. Best Student Paper Award (1st place).
Reed Blaylock. (2019). The influence of metronomic rhythm on speech rhythm in a chanting task. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America.
Timothy Greer, Reed Blaylock, Nimisha Patil, and Shrikanth S. Narayanan. (2018). How beatboxers produce percussion sounds: A real-time magnetic resonance imaging. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144, 1827(A). Best Student Paper Award (2nd place).
Reed Blaylock et. al. (2018). Lingual egressive airstream harmony in beatboxing. Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP). [link]
Reed Blaylock et. al. (2018). The phonology(?) of beatboxing. Southern California Annual Meeting in Phonology (SCAMP). [link]
Reed Blaylock and Sarah Harper. (2018). IPA Hangman. Southern California Meeting on Phonology (SCAMP). [link]
Reed Blaylock. (2018). Real-time MRI: a pedagogical and research tool. Southern California Meeting on Phonology (SCAMP).
Caitlin Smith and Reed Blaylock. (2017). Deriving Exceptional Phonological Patterns from Contrastive Gestural Strength. Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS) 53, Dynamics workshop.
Reed Blaylock, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2017). Novel imaging tools for supporting the teaching of singing and spoken performance. Acoustical Society of America.

Science communication

Lesage Singing. (2022). "ACTUAL scientist talks about SCIENCE of beatboxing (and speech)." [link]
Reed Blaylock. (2020). "For linguists, it was the decade of the pronoun." The Conversation. [Article about the American Dialect Society’s 2019 Word of the Year event.] [link]
Reed Blaylock, Nimisha Patil, Timothy Greer, and Shrikanth Narayanan. (2017). "Breaking Down the Beat: The Art and Science of Beatboxing." [link]

News articles and interviews about the beatboxing research conducted by myself and others (PI: Shrikanth Narayanan) at the USC SPAN lab. Below are some of the articles that mention my name specifically. The research has also been reported in Popular Science, Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, and The New York Times.