Let's introduce ourselves!

[Valentina Pagliai]

Hi,

Here is my Bio.

I teach in the Anthropology dept. at Oberlin College as an assistant 
professor.  I did my Phd at UCLA in Linguistic Anthropology. My 
research is on verbal art and performance. I worked on storytelling and 
identity with the Italian Americans in LA, then on verbal duels in 
Tuscany. I am interested in the relationship between art and 
nationalism and also in identity constructions, gender, ethnicity, 
race. My future research (starting in May) will be on the construction 
of race and racism in interaction & storytelling (in Italy).  Among the 
others, I teach courses on "Art, Language and Society" and "Discourse, 
Nationhood and Racism."

As for the AAA, I will be there and I would love to see you all for 
dinner on friday.

Valentina Pagliai
Oberlin College


On Nov 9, 2005, at 3:37 PM, 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