[1] With Jennifer Cramer and Kevin B. McGowan, he published the revised third edition of Rosina Lippi-Green's textbook English with an Accent.
in Russian language and literature from Trinity University, in San Antonio, Texas, and he received both an M.A.
[3] He co-convened the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at the University of Kentucky in 2017.
[4] Barrett received the Arnold Zwicky Award from the Linguistic Society of America in 2022.
[5] Barrett was senior editor of Oxford Research Review in Linguistics 2012–2015, served on the editorial board of Journal of English Linguistics 2007–2015, Gender and Language 2011–2020, and Western Journal of Communication 2014.