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RESEARCH TOPICS AND MAJOR TEACHING INTERESTS

Political economy of language, linguistic ideologies, gender and emotion, politics of representation, postcolonial selves, creole languages, plantation societies, Caribbean art and belief systems.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

1999    “‘A Broke-up Mirror’: Representing Bajan in Print,” Cultural Anthropology 14(1):61-87.

1998   Review of Silverstein and Urban, Natural Histories of Discourse, American Ethnologist 25(4):751-752.

1998   Review of Fishman, Conrad, and Rubal-Lopez, Post-Imperial English: Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990, Journal of  Linguistic Anthropology 8(2):255-257.

1997   Review of Brenneis and Macauley, The Matrix of Language, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 7(1):139.

1977   “Cyganie Nowotarszczyzny: Sytuacja Wspolczesna i Kierunki Przemian.” [The Gypsies of Nowy Targ Region: Current Situation and the Trends of Change], Ethnografia Polska. Vol 22/2.

Forthcoming

    Review of Hanks Intertexts: Writings on Language, Utterance, and Context, American Ethnologist, Fall 2001.

    “Banksby and Lord Simpleton Get Madly Gay: Dueling Colonial Voices in a Barbadian Burlesque.” AAA Annual Meetings, 2001, Washington, DC.

PRESENTATIONS

2001   “Old Modernities and New: Language, Alienation, and Postcolonial Selves in Barbados.” Presented at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Anthropology Department of the University of South Carolina.

2000   “Old Modernities and New: Modernity and Language in the Caribbean.” AAA Annual Meetings, 2000, San Francisco, CA.

1999   “Selves and Others Through Language.” AAA Annual Meetings, November 1999, Chicago, IL.

1998   “How Transient Encounters Matter: Tourism and Language Change in Barbados.” AAA Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA.

1997   “‘Flying at half-mast’: Voices, Genres, and Orthographies in Barbadian Creole.” AAA Annual Meetings, Washington, DC.

1996   “Writing on the Margins: Imprinted Evidence of Barbadian Creole.” AAA Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA.

1996   “‘A Broke-up Mirror’: Representing Barbadian Creole in Print.” Brandeis University Conference on Language and Ideology, Waltham, MA.

1995   “Madame, You are Impeding the Party: Narrating Sociolinguistic Boundaries in Barbados.” AAA Annual Meetings, Washington, DC.

1995   “Adjusting to Suit: The Politics of Discourse in a Barbadian Village.” Brandeis University; sponsored by the Department of Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology.

Works in Progress (book):

    “Articulating Subjects: Language, Colonialism, and Identity in the British West Indies” (working title).

Works in Progress (articles):

    “Old Modernities and New: Language, Alienation, and Postcolonial Selves in Barbados.”

    “‘Flying at half-mast’: Voices, Genres, and Orthographies in Barbadian Creole.”

    “Bajan and English: The Politics of Representation and the Linguistic Awareness of Creole Speakers.”

    “Emblems of Inequality: Bajan, English, and Social Identities.”

    “Poetics and Performance in Barbadian Oratory.”

Works in Progress: (reviews)

    Review of Duranti, Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, for Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute.
 
 
 

 

Last update: 07/22/00