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Lewis Esposito is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina, affiliated with the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. His research bridges sociolinguistics, phonetics, and sociocultural analysis.
- PhD in Linguistics, Stanford University, 2024
- BA in Linguistics, Swarthmore College, 2016
Esposito specializes in sociolinguistics, focusing on language variation and change, sociophonetics, and intersections of language, gender, and sexuality. His work explores prosodic patterns, stylistic shifts, and embodied ideologies in speech.
Recent publications highlight prosody, Mandarin syntax, and gendered affective markers. His research integrates experimental and corpus-based methodologies.
- Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize (2022-2023)
- Gilliland Award, Phi Beta Kappa (2021)
- Pigott Scholars Fellowship (2020-2021)
- LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship (2019)
- Hindi-Urdu Startalk Language Fellowship (2014)
Esposito has secured grants including the Linguistics Department Research Grant at Stanford (2021, 2019) and NSF REU Grant (2015). He mentors graduate students and contributes to sociolinguistic discourse.
