CV

Emily E. Albarillo

emily (dot) albarillo (at) gmail (dot) com

Interests

Digital preservation of audio-visual cultural heritage
Ethical and political issues of academic research in indigenous cultures
Language documentation and conservation in the Pacific region
Travel and creative undertakings (photography, writing, music)

Education

August 2006 – May 2009
Master of Arts in Linguistics, language documentation and conservation track
Graduate Certificate in Museum studies
University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i

August 2004
TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certification course
Via Lingua, Chania, Greece

September 2000 – June 2004
Bachelor of Arts in Russian and Linguistics (3.95 GPA)
University Scholars (Honors) Program; summer study at St. Petersburg State University, 2003, and Udmurtia State University (Russia), 2001
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington

Work experience

August 2009 – present
Digital media specialist
Sinclair Library, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
RuthMarie Quirk, supervisor
Project website
News release

August 2008 – May 2009
Graduate assistant, University of Hawai’i Digital Ethnographic Archive
Linguistics department, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Developing digitization workflows, digitizing analog data, metadata entry
Dr. Nick Thieberger, supervisor

February 2007 – July 2009
TOEFL and TOEIC rater
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
Internet-based evaluation of TOEFL and TOEIC speaking tests

August 2007 – May 2008
Graduate assistant, Linguistics 102 instructor
Linguistics department, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Teaching, material development, class planning, student consultation
Dr. Kamil Ud Deen, supervisor

June 2008 – July 2008
Intern
Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden, New York
Compiling video sequences of ethnobotanical research in Micronesia
Dr. Michael Balick, supervisor

March 2006-August 2006
ESL instructor
Kaplan English Programs, Des Moines, Washington
Teaching reading, writing, and college skills to international students preparing for college in the US
Jon Dietzen, supervisor

September 2004-November 2005
ESL instructor
Shane English Schools, Taipei, Taiwan
Teaching English in classes and individually to students from age five to adult
Dave Roberts, supervisor

Activities and volunteer work

1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, March 12-14, 2009
Planning committee, volunteer coordinator

Language Documentation Training Center
Volunteer teacher/mentor, 2006-2009
Curriculum coordinator, Fall 2008

Linguistic Society of Hawai’i
Member, 2006-2009
Vice president, 2007-2008

Annual Language, Linguistics, and Literature Conference
A/V and technology coordinator, 2008
Assistant editor, 2007

Publications and presentations

Albarillo, Emily E. (in press). Whose language is it? The politics and rhetoric of language documentation. Forthcoming in Proceedings of the Ninth College-Wide Conference for Graduate Students in Languages, Linguistics, and Literature.

Albarillo, Emily E. and Nick Thieberger. 2009. Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai’i’s Digital Ethnographic Archive. Language Documentation and Conservation 3(1):1-14. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4422.

Albarillo, Emily E. 2009. Whose language is it? The rhetoric and politics of language documentation. Presentation given at the 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai’i, April 25, 2009. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/5146.

Albarillo, Emily E. 2009. A multipurpose record: Traditional botanical knowledge in language documentation. Presentation given as part of the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai’i, March 14, 2009. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/5146.

Bartelson, Emily E. 2008. Book Notice: Naman: A vanishing language of Malakula (Vanuatu). Language Documentation and Conservation 2(1):182–182. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1805.

Bartelson, Emily E. 2008. But I’m not a botanist: Dealing with plants in descriptive linguistic work. Presentation given as part of the Department of Linguistics Tuesday Seminar series, University of Hawai’i, April 8, 2008.