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Lorena Jessop is an Adjunct lecturer at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. She has held Teaching Appointments in English as a Second Language and Linguistics in Japan, USA and Canada. Since 2004, she has been working for the Linguistics Program at Queen’s. She designed and teaches the Language and Power course, which examines how language reflects and creates power relations in society. She has also taught Phonetics, Introduction to Linguistics and Investigating English Style.

Professor Jessop investigates the acquisition of phonetics and phonology by second language learners. The overall objective of this research is to provide pedagogical recommendations for the teaching of pronunciation based on empirical research. She has been investigating English, Spanish and French. She has also researched ‘uptalk’ (when it sounds like people are speaking all in questions) and latrinalia (washroom graffiti).