Holly Cashman

Holly R. Cashman (she/they) is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures (LLC) and a core faculty member in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire (USA). She serves as co-coordinator of Queer Studies and formerly served as chair of LLC for two terms.

Her current research focuses on local LGBTQ+ oral history. Cashman founded the Seacoast NH LGBTQ Oral History Project in collaboration with the NH Seacoast LGBT History Project to collect oral hsitories in the local NH Seacoast region. More recently, she established the Queer@UNH Oral History Project. Cashman has taught a workshop series on oral history for New Hampshire Humanities and they currently serve as the project humanist for the Voices of Pride oral history project (Historical Society of Cheshire County).

Earlier research focused on Spanish in the U.S., bilingual conversation, queer linguistics, and impoliteness. Her book Queer, Latinx, & Bilingual: Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities (Routledge, 2018) was shortlisted for the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) book prize. Cashman was recently named co-editor of the Cambridge Elements series in Language, Gender and Sexuality with Helen Sauntson, York St John University, UK . Her work has been published in journals such as Language in Society, Gender & Language, Spanish in Context, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Multilingua. She has also contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality (Kira Hall & Rusty Barrett, eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language (Kim Potowski, ed.), A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora: Latino practices, identities & ideologies (Rosina Márquez-Reiter & Luisa Martín Rojo, eds.), and The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism (Li Wei & Melissa G. Moyer, eds.). 

Cashman currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Language & Sexuality and formerly co-edited the Cambridge Elements series on language, gender and sexuality with Helen Sauntson. Cashman has served as president of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) and of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), as well as president of the Executive Board of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) of the Modern Languages Association. 

Cashman won the Kidder Award for faculty in 2019, which honors “those who, through their scholarship, leadership, or outstanding efforts, foster greater understanding of sexual orientation and gender expression at the University of New Hampshire" and the Pink Triangle Award (2013-2014) for "outstanding contributions to efforts for equity and visibility for the UNH GLBT community" at UNH. She was awarded a President’s Good Steward Award (UNH, 2018) from the New Hampshire College Compact, which recognizes "a member of the faculty, administration or staff member who has contributed his or her professional expertise in service to the wider community and who has significantly advanced public service on their campus”, and her presentation on 'Approaches & Activities for LGBTQ-Inclusive Language Classrooms' was voted "Best of New Hampshire" at the 2016 New Hampshire Association of World Language Teachers (NHAWLT).