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Robin Queen is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Linguistics, German, English and the Honors Program at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Vox Popular: The Surprising Life of Language and the Media (2015); co-author of Through the Golden Door: Educational Approaches for Immigrant Adolescents (1998) and author or co-author of publications in the areas of language contact; language, gender, and sexuality; and language in the mass media. She was the co-editor with Anne Curzan of the Journal of English Linguistics (2006-2012) and is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. She has been researching, documenting and theorizing shepherds’ communication with sheepdogs since 2012 and competes in sheep herding competitions with her border collies. She lives on a small hobby farm with a merry band of cats, dogs, chickens, and sheep.