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Natalie Schilling is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She has authored and co-authored books, articles and chapters on a wide range of topics connected to the study of language variation and change. Her publications include Sociolinguistic Fieldwork (2013, Cambridge University Press), American English: Dialects and Variation (with Walt Wolfram, 3rd edition, 2016, Wiley-Blackwell), The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (co-editor, with J.K. Chambers, 2nd edition, 2013, Wiley-Blackwell), and English in America: A Linguistic History, an audio-video course with The Great Courses. She has served as a forensic linguistic expert in cases involving authorship attribution, speaker profiling, and possible false confessions. She regularly teaches forensic linguistics, to audiences ranging from university students to FBI agents, to incarcerated individuals. Composite characters based on Dr. Schilling have in two TV series – once in the CBS series Criminal Minds (Alex Blake, FBI agent/Georgetown linguistics professor) and once in the Discovery Channel’s miniseries Manhunt: Unabomber (Natalie Rogers, a linguist at Stanford University).