Karen Stollznow Biography
Karen Stollznow is an author, linguist, public speaker, and podcaster of Australian and American descent. Missed Conceptions, On the Offensive, and The Language of Discrimination are among her books. She also produces the podcast Monster Talk with Blake Smith and writes short stories. Stollznow has been on television and in magazines.
How old is Karen Stollznow? – Age
She is 47 years old as of 12 August 2023. She was born in 1976 in Australia.
Karen Stollznow Education
She earned a First Class Honors in Linguistics and a PhD in Lexical Semantics while studying linguistics and history at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales. In 2007, she received her doctorate. She moved to California in 2004 to work as a Visiting Student Researcher in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2005, she joined the Script Encoding Initiative, a collaboration between the UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics and the Unicode Consortium. She is currently a researcher in Griffith University’s Department of Linguistics and a member of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research.
Karen Stollznow Husband
Stollznow resides in Denver, Colorado, with her husband, Matthew Baxter, and their kid.
Karen Stollznow Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Karen Stollznow Podcast
She has hosted the Skeptics Society’s MonsterTalk podcast since its inception in 2009, and she joined the Center for Inquiry’s Point of Inquiry program in 2010. In 2011, she spoke about Braco the Gazer at the Colorado Springs SkeptiCamp and Making (Up) History at the Denver/Boulder SkeptiCamp. She gave a session titled “Prediction and Language” at The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas in 2012, and another titled “What an Excellent Day for an Exorcism” in 2013.
Stollznow also writes short stories, including Fisher’s Ghost and Other Stories, and hosts the podcast Monster Talk with Blake Smith. She has contributed to a number of well-known journals, including The Conversation and Psychology Today. Stollznow has also appeared as an expert on numerous TV shows, including A Current Affair and History’s Greatest Mysteries on the History Channel.
Karen Stollznow Career
Stollznow was a major investigator and writer for the Australian Skeptics from 1997 to 2009, serving as Editor of their magazine The Skeptic, for which she also published many pieces. She has also written for Australasian Science, Neucleus, Skeptical Inquirer, and other media.
She wrote the Naked Skeptic column for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) from 2009 to 2011, which has now been renamed as The Good Word for Skeptical Inquirer. She began writing the Bad Language section for Skeptic in 2010. Stollznow was also a James Randi Educational Foundation Research Fellow. She is a Skeptical Inquirer magazine Contributing Editor and a Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Fellow.
Karen Stollznow Books
♦ 2017 – The Language of Discrimination
♦ 2017 – Would You Believe It?: Mysterious Tales From People You’d Least Expect
♦ 2016 – Hits and Mrs. Amazon Digital Services
♦ 2014 – Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic
♦ 2013 – God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States
♦ 2013 – Haunting America. James Randi Educational Foundation
♦ 2010 – Skepticism and the Paranormal: A Rose By Any Other Name
♦ 2009 – The Writing’s on the Wall for the World’s Endangered Writing Systems
♦ 2009 – Keith Allan & Kate Burridge, Forbidden words: Taboo and the censoring of language
♦ 2008 – Dehumanisation in language and thought
♦ 2007 – Key Words in the Discourse of Discrimination: A Semantic Analysis
♦ 2005 – When Opposites Attract: The Re-appropriation and Amelioration of Words in Australian English
♦ 2004 – Whinger! Wanker! Wowser! ‘Aussie English insults
♦ 2003 – The semantics and usage of abusive epithets in Australian English. Conference paper proceedings”, New Zealand Linguist Society Wellington
♦ 2002 – Terms of Abuse in Australian English: An analysis of abusive and insulting epithets in Australian English”, University of New England BA Honors Thesis
