Athena Kirby

Graduate Research Assistant
2023-

Athena was a CDIS major who initiated the Word/Voice Gender project as a senior in Spring 2023. She continued to work on it (and the Impressions of CI User Speech project) as a master's student. She is now a graduate research assistant for Dr. John Tetnowski.

​Projects:

Vocal Gender

CI Impressions

Presentations (*student author):

• *Kirby, A., Freeman, V., Courouleau, T., & Merritt, B. (2024, February). Interactions between voice-gender and word-gender perceptions. Poster, Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association (TSHA), Fort Worth, TX. [abstract]
• Freeman, V., *Kirby, A., & Courouleau, T. (2023, October). Word-gender and voice-gender perceptions in LGBTQ+ vs. cishet listeners. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), Queens, NY. 
• *Kirby, A., Freeman, V., & Courouleau, T. (2023, October). Voice-gender effects on word gender. Poster, Oklahoma Speech-Language-Hearing Association (OSHA), Edmond, OK. 
• *Kirby, A. (2023, April). Voice-gender effects on word gender. Poster, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.