Dr. Maggie Camp is an Associate Professor of Japanese Linguistics in East Asian Studies and an affiliated faculty member of the Center of East Asian Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and with the Institute for LGBT Studies. She received her BA in Japanese and Linguistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her MA and PhD from the University of Arizona. She also studied at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan, and was a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Camp’s research examines the relationship between gender and language in Japanese through the lens of sexuality, looking specifically at differences between the speech of Japanese lesbian and heterosexual women. Her current interests include sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, experimental phonetics, gender/sexuality, language ideology, and second language teaching and language use.