Natalie Schilling, Ph.D., is a Linguistics Consultant and Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is an internationally recognized expert in the study of language and dialect variation, including variation across and within individuals. She also specializes in forensic linguistics and serves as an expert witness in cases involving language evidence. She consults with media and entertainment on matters of language, dialect, and forensic linguistics and provides insights from sociolinguistics and forensic linguistics to researchers in Artificial Intelligence.

Natalie is lead editor for English in North America and the Caribbean, Volume V of the New Cambridge History of English (Cambridge University Press), and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley journal Language and Linguistics Compass. Her audio/video course on English in America: A Linguistic History (2016) is part of the popular Great Courses lecture series.