Sandra Disner

Research, Teaching, Practice, and Clinical Appointments

• Associate Professor (Teaching), USC, 2022-2023
• Associate Professor (Teaching), USC, 2021-2022
• Associate Professor (Teaching), USC, 2020-2021
• Associate Professor (Teaching), USC, 2019-2020
• Associate Professor (Teaching), USC, 2018-2019
• Associate Professor (Teaching), USC, 2017-2018
• Associate Professor (Teaching), USC, 2016-2017
• Associate Professor (Teaching), USC, 2015-2016
• Assistant Professor (Teaching) , USC, 2014-2015
• Assistant Professor (Teaching) , USC, 2013-2014
• Assistant Professor (Teaching) , USC, 2012-2013
• Lecturer, USC, 2011-2012
• Lecturer, USC, 2010-2011
• Lecturer, USC, 2009-2010
• Associate Professor (Teaching), USC,

Visiting and Temporary Appointments

• Lecturer, USC, 2008-2009
• Lecturer, USC,
• Lecturer, UCLA,
• Lecturer, USC,
• Lecturer, U.C. Riverside, Spring Fall

USC Funding

• Larger Faculty Development Grant. Conference travel — Int’l Assn for Forensic Phonetics & Acoustics: Gave a talk at the IAFPA conference in Split, Croatia and also the West Coast Roundtable on Language and Law, $1500, Spring 2017
• Larger Faculty Development Grant. Conference travel — Int’l Assn for Forensic Phonetics & Acoustics: Travel to York, England to give a conference presentation: A Trademark case which relies crucially on phonetics and dialectology, $1500, Spring 2016
• Larger Faculty Development Grant. West Coast Roundtable on Language & Law: Travel funds to attend West Coast Roundtable on Language and Law, Vancouver, Canada, $1500, 2012-2013
• Faculty Travel Grant. International Assn of Forensic Linguists: Travel funds to attend the International Assn of Forensic Linguists in Birmingham, England., $500, Fall 2011
• Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching. Speaker Identification: Support for research into forensic linguistic issues, particularly the identification of a speaker by means of vocal acoustics., $5000, 05/2009 – 05/2010

Conference Presentations

• F2 and F3 Covariance as evidence of speaker identity , 27th annual IAFPA conferencePoster, International Association for Forensic Phonetica a, Huddersfield, England, 2018 –
• Case Study on Earwitness Reliability , International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 26th annual conferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, Split Croatia, 2017 –
• A Trademark Case which relies crucially on phonetics and dialectology , International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 25th annual conferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, York, England, 2016 –
• The fine structure of phonation as a biometric , Acoustical Society of AmericaPoster, Cancun, Mexico, 2010 –
• Utility of length-normalization for predicting confusion. , 30th annual conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and AcousticsTalk/Oral Presentation, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/2022
• On the phonetics of trademark infringement. , 29th annual conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and AcousticsTalk/Oral Presentation, Marburg, Germany, 07/2021
• , Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2019Session chair, Lecce, Italy, 2019
• Closing remarks of Discussant Session on Forensic Phonetics & Speaker Characteristics , International Congress of Phonetic SciencesTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Glasgow, Scotland, 08/14/2015
• Sound analysis of trademarks , 11th Biennial, International Association of Forensic LinguistsTalk/Oral Presentation, Mexico City, 07/2013
• Examining the voice bar , Acoustical Society of AmericaPoster, San Diego, CA, Fall 2011
• Individuating vocal characteristics with the reassigned spectrogram , International Association of Forensic LinguistsPoster, Birmingham, England, Spring 2011
• Advanced time-frequency displays applied to forensic speaker identification , Acoustical Society of AmericaPoster, Portland, Oregon, 2008-2009

Other Presentations

• Linguistics in Legal Disputes, “Distinguished Voices” lecture, Univ. of California, Irvine, 2018-CONT
• Fanciful trademarks require some sleuthing, 6th West Coast Roundtable on Language and Law, San Francisco, CA, 2012-CONT
• Phonetic complements to linguistic evidence, 5th West Coast Roundtable on Language and Law, Vancouver, Canada, 2011-CONT
• Cross-language differences in related vowels, Participant in “Pisa Lectures” series, Pisa, Italy, 1987-1988

• (Fall 2019) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry, TTh 11:00am – 12:20pm, WPH202
• (Fall 2019) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry, MW 05:00pm – 06:20pm, GFS109
• (Fall 2019) LING 210. Introduction to Linguistics, MW 12:00pm – 01:50pm, GFS118
• (Spring 2020) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry, TTh 05:00pm – 06:20pm, VKC254
• (Spring 2020) LING 115. Language and Society, TTh 02:00pm – 03:20pm, WPH B27
• (Fall 2020) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry, TTh 05:00pm – 06:20pm, ONLINE
• (Fall 2020) LING 210. Introduction to Linguistics, MW 12:00pm – 01:50pm, ONLINE
• (Spring 2021) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry, MW 02:00pm – 03:20pm,
• (Spring 2021) LING 210. Introduction to Linguistics, TTh 11:00am – 12:20pm,
• (Fall 2021) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry, TTh 11:00am – 12:20pm, ONLINE
• (Fall 2021) LING 210. Introduction to Linguistics, TTh 05:00pm – 06:50pm, SOS B46
• (Spring 2022) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry, TTh 05:00pm – 06:20pm,
• (Spring 2022) LING 412. Language and Law, TTh 12:30pm – 01:50pm,
• (Fall 2022) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry, TTh 03:30pm – 04:50pm, CPA109
• (Fall 2022) LING 210. Introduction to Linguistics, TTh 11:00am – 12:20pm, SOS B46
• (Spring 2023) LING 210. Introduction to Linguistics, TTh 11:00am – 12:20pm,

Book

• Ladefoged, P., Disner, S. F. (2012). Vowels and Consonants. Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Book Chapters

• Van Heuven, V., Afshar, N., Disner, S. F. (2020). Mapping perceptual vowel spaces in native and foreign language. Bilingualism: Hungarian and non- Hungarian contex pp. 12. Veszprém: University of Pannonia.

Encyclopedia Article

• Disner, S. F. (2013). Forensic Linguistics. Heidelberg: Springer: Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

• Language, Law and Literature, General Education GESM 120, 2015-2016
• Leaving our own imprint, General Education GESM 120, 2015-2016
• Language, Law and Literature, Arts & Letters, Fall 2014
• Leaving Our Own Imprint: Adaptations of the novel, poem, story and play through the centuries, Arts and Letters, 2010-2011
• New Horizons in Speaker Identification, Linguistics, Spring 2010

Other Advisement or Time Devoted to Students

• Supervised three Independent Study courses for undergraduates in the Linguistics Department, 2012-2013

Administrative Appointments

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, 2018 –

Committees

• Member, Secretary, Eta of California chapter, Phi Beta Kappa society, 2018-2019
• Member, Linguistics Department consultative committee on the selection of a Department Chair., Spring 2019
• Member, Linguistics Department consultative committee on the selection of an Interim Department Chair., 2015-2016
• Member, Linguistics Department consultative committee on the selection of a Department Chair., 2012-2013

Review Panels

• USC Academic Honors & Fellowships, Fulbright applicants’ review committee, 2022 –
• USC Dornsife, Committee to select Trustee and Presidential Scholars for 2022-23, Spring 2022
• USC Dornsife, Committee to select Trustee and Presidential Scholars for 2019-20, Spring 2019
• USC Dornsife, Committee to select Trustee and Presidential Scholars for 2015-16 , Spring 2015
• USC Dornsife, Committee to select Trustee and Presidential Scholars for 2014-15, Spring 2014
• USC Dornsife, Merit Evaluation Appeal Committee , Spring 2014

Other Service to the University

• Presented research findings at the annual breakfast meeting of the Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching, 2010-2011

Committees

• Member, Speaker Recognition Subcommittee, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2019 –
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, 2018 –
• Member, Linguistics Department Consultative Committee on the selection of a Department Chair., 2018-2019
• Member, Linguistics Department Consultative Committee on the selection of a Department Chair., 2012-2013

Professional Memberships

• International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 2015 –
• International Phonetic Association, 2022-2023
• Dictionary Society of North America, 2021-2022
• International Association of Forensic Linguists, 2017-2018
• Acoustical Society of America, 2014-2015
• Linguistic Society of America, 2010-2011
• The Association for Laboratory Phonology, 2010-2011

Reviewer for Publications

• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Refereed papers on vowel quality, 2019 –
• The Phonetician, International Society of Phonetic Sciences, Book reviews in the field of phonetics, 2012-2013
• Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Refereed papers on Western European languages, 2003-2004

Media, Alumni, and Community Relations

• Quoted by USA Today on the lasting importance of spelling, 05/2015 –
• Quoted by Yahoo News on early childhood language, 01/2015 –
• Interviewed by CNN http://newsroom.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/03/did-bowe-bergdahl-forget-english/, 05/2014
• Quoted by USA Today in an article on bilingualism, 05/2014

Other Service to the Profession

• Video conference on careers in Linguistics for the Boise State University Linguistics Association. (twice),
• Served on coordinating committee of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory ,
• Reviewed grant proposals for the National Science Foundation,