I am a sociolinguist. I work primarily from variationist approaches. Most of my research has focused on describing varieties of English, and identifying changes in dialects resulting from a range of social and linguistic factors. My current projects include editing the Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics; a series of "historical sociophonetic" projects to use old speech recordings to test hypotheses about sound change which were constructed to explain present-day data; exploration of sentiment analysis as a predictor of micro-syntactic variability; and several collaborations on English language and English language teaching in African contexts. Public engagement is important to my work, too. I am a Fellow in the Warwick Institute of Engagement, and frequently share knowledge about language and linguistics in media appearances, webinars, presentations, and other events. My engagement work also includes collaborations with Cockney Cultures to celebrate non-standard Englishes traditionally associated with East London and reduce language prejudice faced by speakers of these varieties, as well as collaborations across the Eutopia Alliance of universities to foster public engagement and impact through historical sociolinguistic research. I welcome inquiries from qualified students who wish to pursue PhD projects in sociophonetics, dialectology, and other areas of language variation and change. I am also happy to consider supervising undergraduate projects in these areas in connection with Warwick's Undergraduate Research Support Scheme.
I joined Warwick in 2017. I received my PhD in 2014 from the University of Missouri. I taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the United States from 2006 to 2017. I was also previously an officer in the United States Army.
- 'Strelluf, Christopher, 2022. 'Regional variation and syntactic derivation of low-frequency need-passives on Twitter. Journal of English Linguistics, 50 (1), pp. 39-71
- 'Strelluf, Christopher, 'Ekembe, Erik, 2022. 'Questionnaires as a tool for teaching English language through learner-created knowledge. English Teaching Forum
- 'Strelluf, Christopher, 2020. 'needs+PAST PARTICIPLE in regional Englishes on Twitter. World Englishes, 39 (1), pp. 119-134
- Strelluf, Christopher, Cardwell, Tasha, 2019. Surveying borders in a speech community. Dialectologia
- Strelluf, Christopher, 2019. Anymore, it's on Twitter : positive-anymore, American regional dialects, and polarity-licensing in tweets. American Speech, 94 (3), pp. 313-351
- Strelluf, Christopher, 2016. Overlap among back vowels before /l/ in Kansas City. Language Variation and Change, 28 (3), pp. 379-407
- Gordon, Matthew J., Strelluf, Christopher, 2016. Working the early shift : older inland northern speech and the beginnings of the northern cities shift. Journal of Linguistic Geography, 4 (01), pp. 31-46
- Strelluf, Christopher, 2015. 'The obligation of newspeople is not only to give the news accurately; it is also to say it correctly' : production and perception of broadcaster speech. Sociolinguistic Studies, 9 (4), pp. 467-491
- Strelluf, Christopher, 2015. "The obligation of newspeople is not only to give the news accurately; it is also to say it correctly?: production and perception of broadcaster speech. Sociolinguistic Studies, 9 (4), pp. 467-492
- 'Strelluf, Christopher, 2021. 'The actuation of American Raising in the Heart of America. In Davis, Stuart; Berkson, Kelly (eds.), American Raising, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, pp. 95-124
- Angouri, Jo, Strelluf, Christopher, 2021. Dialect : Occupational. Stanlaw, James (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley
- Strelluf, Christopher, 2019. Structural and social correlations with the Low-Back-Merger Shift in a US Midland community. In Becker, Kara (ed.), The Low-Back-Merger Shift : Uniting the Canadian Vowel Shift, the California Vowel Shift, and Short Front Vowel Shifts across North America, Durham, NC, Duke University Press ; American Dialect Society, pp. 120-143
- Strelluf, Christopher, 2018. Speaking from the heartland : the Midland vowel system of Kansas City. Durham, NC, Duke University Press
- Strelluf, Christopher, 2016. Media coverage of the 2009 Afghan presidential election. In Ochieng Orwenjo, Daniel (ed.), Political Discourse in Emergent, Fragile, and Failed Democracies, Hershey PA, IGI Global, pp. 143-164
- Strelluf, Christopher, Gordon, Matthew J., 2017. Analyzing sound archives with FAVE or, How to keep lots of data from becoming lots of bad data.. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46, Madison, WI, 02-05 Nov 2017
- 'Strelluf, Christopher, 2021. 'Review of Speaking of Alabama : the history, diversity, function, and change of language edited by Nunnally, Thomas E.. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, De Gruyter, pp. 151-156