Linguistics Careercast is the podcast devoted to exploring careers for linguists outside academia, through interviews with linguists employed in industry.
“Music and linguistics are both an act of communication and an act of social coordination”
Lauren Collister is a linguist who works as a professional writer, researcher, and educator. She received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh and spent twelve years there working in scholarly communications and publishing in the Pittsburgh University Library System. She’s currently employed at Invest in Open Infrastructure, an organization that is dedicated to improving resilience, funding, and resourcing for open technologies and systems supporting research and scholarship.
Lauren Collister on LinkedIn
Lauren Collister’s website
Topics include:
– sociolinguistics
– music
– social coordination
– collaboration
– library work
– publishing
– LinkedIn
– career coaching
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9 Sept 2026
Episode #92: Anna Marie Trester and Robert Lawson
“How do we find and hang on to our own humanity in this inhumane capitalist system?”
After completing her PhD in Linguistics in 2008, Anna Marie Trester worked in academic administration at Georgetown University and then later at the FrameWorks Institute (a social change communications think tank), all the while founding and growing Career Linguist (CL) as a “side hustle.” In December 2018, she took the plunge to focus on CL full-time, working as a story practitioner, researcher, consultant, and trainer. Anna Marie is the author of Employing Linguistics: Thinking and Talking About Careers for Linguists and Bringing Linguistics to Work: A Story Listening, Story Finding, and Story Telling approach to Your Career. She also serves as the Career Readiness Coordinator for the Department of Linguistics at Boise State University.
Anna Marie Trester on LinkedIn
Department of Linguistics at Boise State University
Anna Marie Trester and Michal Temkin Martinez on Linguistics Careercast
Robert Lawson is Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics at Birmingham City University, where he researches and teaches across sociolinguistics, language and identity, and applied language studies. He is the author of Language and Mediated Masculinities (Oxford University Press, 2023), co-editor of Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact (Routledge, 2016), and editor of Sociolinguistics in Scotland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He has also worked with police agencies in England to develop and deliver training on manosphere language and male supremacism and is a regular expert media commentator on men and masculinities.
Robert Lawson on LinkedIn
Robert Lawson at Birmingham City University
The paper: Dancing with capitalism: Employability and the pursuit of impact in linguistics curricula (published in Language)
Charlotte Linde at the Linguistics Career Launch
Topics include:
– publishing journey
– career preparation
– linguistics departments
– linguistics faculty
– imposter syndrome
– impact
– modules
– sociolinguistics
– capitalism
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21 Aug 2026
Episode #91: Kelsey Kraus
“What if we could have an academic program that combines linguistic knowledge with engineering knowledge?”
Kelsey Kraus is a computational linguist, data scientist, and educator. received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2018, where she worked on the semantics and pragmatics of intonation and discourse particles in English and German. She joined the linguistics faculty at San Jose State University in 2026 after working in Silicon Valley as a Linguist and Senior Data Scientist at Google, Amazon, and Cisco. Kelsey was a featured speaker at Linguistics Career Launch 2022, presenting a session on Human Language Technology (HLT) Industry Jobs.
Kelsey Kraus on LinkedIn
Kelsey Kraus on github
Kelsey Kraus at SJSU
Kelsey Kraus’ blog at Cisco
Kelsey Kraus at LC 2022: “Human Language Technology (HLT) Industry Jobs” (audio and video)
Linguistics at SJSU
Topics include:
– syntax
– informational interviews
– LinkedIn
– Cisco
– voice UI
– LLMs
– chat agents
– computational linguistics
– corpus linguistic
– return to academia
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