Let's introduce ourselves!

[Rachel Reynolds]

Hi.  Haven't seen many folks since about 2002, when I organized the AAA 
linganth dinner during a Chicago-based meeting (I think it was 2002).

I'm as Assistant Prof. at Drexel University (Philadelphia) in the 
Department of Culture & Communication.  Just about to go teach today's 
class in my course on Ethnography of Communication, and I also teach our 
graduate level Discourse Analysis classes (we have an M.S. degree in 
Communication).  Otherwise, I teach a broadly required intro to sociolx 
course, and a course on global English, as well as Intercultural 
Communication.  That latter expertise reflects my ethnographic research 
work in two milieu:  African and African-American relations in the U.S., 
and Dominican and African-American relations in the U.S.  I especially am 
interested in occupation and economic status, and how that affects the ways 
that immigrant groups and African-Americans talk about themselves 
respectively, but with a co-construction twist, i.e. with respect to 
intercultural encounters between group members.

Hope to see everyone at AAA's, although I'm an officer in SUNTA and I think 
the Linganth and SUNTA business meetings overlap...

Rachel Reynolds
rrr at drexel.edu


At 03:37 PM 11/9/2005 -0500, Leila Monaghan wrote:
>The anthropology meetings are coming once again and I realized that it has
>been a long time since we introduced ourselves on this board and that it 
>might
>be nice to have short bios to attach to name tags.
>
>Also, is anybody willing to organize the ling anthro dinner this year?
>Basically involves finding a restaurant somewhere near the hotel, making a
>reservation and accepting RSVPs.
>
>all best, Leila
>
>My very brief bio:  I teach in the Department of Communication and Culture at
>Indiana University, did my PhD at UCLA in linguistic anthropology, and work
>with Deaf communities (particularly their international development), and do
>work on literacy issues and on performance.  My next major project will be to
>use conversation analysis transcripts to create an ethnographic theatre piece
>on a family learning to read--I see it as Anna Deveare Smith with dialog.
>
>
>--
>Leila Monaghan, PhD
>Department of Communication and Culture
>Indiana University
>Ashton Mottier Hall
>1760 E. 10th Street
>Bloomington, IN 47405-9700
>(812) 855-4607
>monaghan at indiana.edu