Susan Frekko

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Van Meter 141
410-337-6264
susan.frekko@goucher.edu

Education

Ph.D. (Anthropology), University of Michigan, 2006

Areas of Scholarly Expertise and Interest

Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Nations and Publics, Language Ideologies, Ethnography of Writing, Catalonia

Recent Publications/Presentations/Performances

"Containing Castilian in Catalan Talk Radio: Heteroglossia and the Projection of Monoglot Identities," Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 1, p. 65-86, 2011.

“'Normal' in Catalonia: Standard Language, Enregisterment and the Imagination of a National Public,” Language in Society 38(1), 71-93, 2009.

“Signs of Respect: Neighborhood, Public and Language in Barcelona,” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 19(2), 227-245, 2009.

“Social Class, Linguistic Normativity and the Authority of the Native Catalan Speaker in Barcelona,” The Native Speaker Concept: Ethnographic Investigations of “Native Speaker Effects,” Neriko Doerr, ed., Language, Power and Social Process, Mouton de Gruyter, Monica Heller, and Richard Watts, eds., 161-184, 2009.

Funded Research

“Catalan that Doesn’t Hurt the Eyes: Linguistic Display and Linguistic Regimentation in Barcelona,” Dissertation project, Wenner-Gren Individual Research Grant, 2004

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2002-2003

Fulbright I.I.E. Grant, 2002-2003