Dr. Denise Troutman is the Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures and of Linguistics at Michigan State University.
Her research interests include discourse analysis, women and language, African American women and language practices, linguistic politeness in the African American speech community and Ebonics. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Michigan State University and has a joint appointment with Linguistics. Her awards include winner of the 2001-2002 Fulbright Award, 2003-2004 American Fellowship, and the 2009-2010 Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) Scholarship .
Dr. Troutman has published in a variety of collections and journals, including Posnan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (2010), Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts (2006, Palgrave Macmillan), Centering Ourselves: African American Feminist and Womanist Studies in Discourse (2001, Hampton Press), Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English (2001, John Benjamins), The Workings of Language: From Prescriptions to Perspectives (1999, Praeger), the Middle Atlantic Writers Association , the Journal of Negro Education , and more. Recently, Troutman has presented papers at the 40th Posnan Linguistic Meeting, the International Gender and Language Association 5 Conference, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
