Biography

Biography

Kristen Fleckenstein is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the English Department at Coastal Carolina University. She obtained a Ph.D. in Linguistics and a graduate certificate in Women's & Gender Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington, as well as a BA in English from Lubbock Christian University. Her research interests focus broadly on discourse markers, the discursive construction of identity - especially as concerned with marginalized identities - and discourse strategies in digitally mediated spaces. 

Education 

Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington (2019)

B.A., English, Lubbock Christian University (2011)

Teaching Areas

Linguistics 

Research Areas 

Discourse Analysis, Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics