Laura Felton Rosulek is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She will be graduating in August 2008. She previously earned her BA in linguistics from Iowa State University and her MA (linguistics) from the University of Illinois. Her dissertation is on the linguistic choices prosecution and defense lawyers make in their closing arguments in order to create opposing representations of the same people and events. Her work has been published in several journals and conference proceedings and will appear in The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics which is due to be published in 2010. In August, she will be moving to Missoula, MT where she will be an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Montana.

Laura and Risa Shaw are co-presenting:

Lawyers' Use of Witness Words in Closing Arguments of Criminal Trials: Application to Interpretation.