Michael Newman

Michael Newman is the Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders at Queens College, City University of New York. He received his PhD in Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics from Columbia University in 1993. He has published dozens of papers and three books: New York City English (2015), The Designs of Academic Literacy: A Multiliteracies Examination of Academic Achievement (2002), and Epicene Pronouns: The Linguistics of a Prescriptive Problems (1996).