Miranda Guettlein is a linguist, dialect coach, and teacher based in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is a Knight-Thompson Speechwork certified trainer (2022), VASTA member, and the current editor-in-chief of the Voice and Speech Review (published by Taylor and Francis). She taught voice, speech, and accents at the University of Northern Colorado from 2022 to 2024, where she worked with students in the acting, musical theatre, theatre education, and technical theatre tracks and coached accents for their mainstage productions.
Education: MA in linguistics from the University of Colorado, Boulder (2018); BA in linguistics from Regis University (2012). Previous coaching credits include Murder on the Orient Express (x5), Pirates of Penzance, Sweeney Todd, Brigadoon, Cabaret, Sweat, Titanic, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Noises Off. Previous speaking engagements include “Publishing in the Voice and Speech Review” (Central School of Speech and Drama, 2024, 2025, 2025), (VASTA Conference 2024, 2025, 2026), “The Anticapitalist Classroom” (VASTA Conference New Orleans, LA, USA 2025), “The Magic and Science of Accent Acquisition” (NerdNite Fort Collins, CO, USA 2026), “A (Very) Brief Course in Linguistics” (VASTA Conference, Pomona, CA, USA 2026).
Upcoming Short Courses
Tuesday 17th November 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
A (Very) Brief Course in Linguistics!
Miranda Guettlein
Join Miranda Guettlin (editor of the Voice and Speech Review) for an empowering introductory course in linguistics designed specifically for voice and speech practitioners. She will break down the six major subfields (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) in order to provide voice and speech practitioners in with a more clear understanding of the components of language and usable tools to incorporate into their teaching.