Our GURT program is live! See our exciting array of topics, sessions and presenters for the 2026 Georgetown University Round Table: Futuring linguistics: Content, curriculum & careers! Our live program schedule will reflect any changes up to the moment. Share among your networks!

We are excited to introduce the newly elected members of the LSA Executive Committee and the new Co-Editor of Language! Tracey Weldon Sharon Hargus Alexandra Johnston Kelly Kendro Michael Putnam These leaders bring to their positions a wealth of knowledge & passion for advancing our field.

Georgetown Linguistics showed up in full force at ACTFL 2025 in New Orleans! Huge congratulations to our applied linguists for delivering 7 outstanding presentations! We are so proud! #linguistics #appliedlinguistics #ACTFL25

Congratulations to our sociolinguistics PhD students, Abby Killam and Michael Guarino, whose research was featured in the Top Papers panel of the Language and Social Interaction division at this year’s National Communication Association convention in Denver, CO!

Georgetown linguists gave 6 talks and 2 posters at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) in Ann Arbor last week! We're so proud of all the hard work our amazing linguists have done! #linguistics #NWAV53

Our own Distinguished Professor Deborah Tannen was interviewed last week by NPR's Scott Simon on his "Open Book" series about her most personal story of all: "Finding My Father". Listen here: scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/scott-simo...

Scott Simon’s Open Book: Deborah Tannen joins us to talk about FINDING MY FATHER

A recording from Scott Simon's live video

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Virtual information session for Georgetown’s 2-year Master’s in Computational Linguistics! Learn about our courses in NLP, psycholinguistics, low-resource languages, digital humanities, and LLMs, plus phonology, syntax, & semantics. DM for registration link. Friday Nov. 21 | 10–11 AM #linguistics

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Hi BlueSky! Georgetown Linguistics is here and ready to post about our department and community! Follow us for all things GU Linguistics! #linguistics #georgetown #GURT2026