Website 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/romina-hashemi/

Focus of research

I'm interested in using corpus linguistics and quantitative methodology to analyze social media discourse. 

Interests

Corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; computational linguistics; construction grammar; computational rhetoric

Education

Bachelor of Mathematics, Honours Statistics (Co-op) with a minor in Pure Math, University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Arts, Honours English Literature and Rhetoric, University of Waterloo

About

My name is Romina (she/her), and I am doing my MA in linguistics at SFU, under the supervision of Dr. Maite Taboada. I completed my undergrad at the University of Waterloo, where I double majored in statistics and English literature and rhetoric; I'm interested in bringing together my diverse academic background to focus on interdisciplinary approaches to online discourse. Academically, I have a wide range of interests, spanning rhetoric, new media studies, gender studies, and, of course, linguistics. Within linguistics, I am primarily interested in corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and construction grammar. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the BARAYEX construction as a discursive practice in Iran's 2022 Jina Amini Movement. Additionally, as a research assistant at Rhetoricon, under Dr. Randy Harris, I collaborated on a research paper on the AB BEFORE BA construction. Throughout the co-op program at UW, I had the opportunity to complete internships in data analysis, data science, and machine learning, and I've continued to use the technical skillset I built to help me analyze text and work with corpora. 

Awards and recognitions

2022  Bradley Family Upper-Year Scholarship for Women in Mathematics 
2022  DiMarco Undergraduate Scholarship in Computational Rhetoric
2018  President's Scholarship, University of Waterloo