Shell map of Sierra Leone and me
photo by screwy macbook camera

Chris Corcoran

Graduate Student
Department of Linguistics
University of Chicago
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
c-corcoran@uchicago.edu
Curriculum Vitae


The working title of my dissertation:

“Talk half, leave half” or for the savvy “talk half”: A study of where ethnographic data belong in a linguistic analysis with specific reference to Sherbro noun classes

More coming soon.
In January of 2008, the asylum seeker I wrote about in an article presented at the 2003 Michicagoan, AAA, and published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law was finally given a residency permit in the Netherlands: 2004. A critical examination of the use of language analysis interviews in asylum proceedings: A case study of a West African seeking asylum in the Netherlands. International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law: Forensic Linguistics 11 (2): 200–221. (Click here to go to the journal home page.)


with Sorie M. Yillah. 2007. Krio (Creole English). In Comparative Creole syntax: Parallel outlines of eighteen Creole grammars. Westminster Creolistics Series 7, eds. John Holm and Peter L Patrick, 175–98. London: Battlebridge Publications.



edited with Patrick K. Muana. 2005. Representations of violence: Art about the Sierra Leone civil war. Madison, WI: 21st Century African Youth Movement.

From July of 2001 to December of 2008,  I worked in the Journals Division of the University of Chicago Press as a senior production editor.  Most recently I managed the production of these journals:

During my time at the Press, I also worked with these journals: