Jennifer Bloomquist is an Associate professor of linguistics and the coordinator of the Africana Studies Program at Gettysburg College. A Washington, D.C. native, she attended Clarion University in Pennsylvania where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature in 1995. She received both her master’s and doctoral degrees in linguistics from the University at Buffalo (in 1998 and 2003 respectively) and began teaching at Gettysburg College in January, 2002, first in the English department, and then on the faculty of the Africana Studies Program, where she now serves as coordinator. Her work has been published in First Language, Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua, and American Speech and she is the co-chair of the Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics. Her research focuses on African American Englishes in the regional context and she is currently at work on a project that focuses on the representation of African American English and its role in the construction of ethnicity in children’s animated films.