Gretchen McCulloch

Gretchen McCulloch
Gretchen McCulloch at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma materMcGill University (MA)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineInternet linguistics
Websitegretchenmcculloch.com

Gretchen McCulloch (/məˈkʌlək/) is a Canadian linguist. On her blog, as well as her podcast Lingthusiasm (which she cohosts with Lauren Gawne) she offers linguistic analysis of online communication such as internet memes, emoji and instant messaging. She writes regularly for Wired and previously did so for The Toast. In 2019, she published a book on internet linguistics, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language.