Since I joined SLC in 2009, I have offered a variety of courses that encompass linguistic and cultural anthropology, performance studies, and Southeast Asian studies. My linguistic anthropological classes explore political language and ordinary talk to discuss important concepts in language phenomenology, semiotics, and Speech Act Theory. My cultural anthropology courses discuss ethnographic and theoretical issues within the study of material culture, race, colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism. My primary pedagogical objective has been to develop stronger connections between the social sciences and the humanities, as well as the social sciences and the visual and the performative arts. My syllabi are informed by the attempt to highlight the important (yet often unnoticed) connections between the microscopic level of linguistic interaction and everyday practices and the macro-social forces that shape our worlds. This endeavor entails, among other things, an exploration of the foundational aspects of the relation between language and culture, the analysis of human conversation as a form of labor, and the consideration of the existential and creative aspects of the human voice.
Courses
Love In The Time Of Neoliberalism: Grammars Of Affect And Cultures Of Capitalism– Fall(2014-2015)
How Things Talk: The Linguistic Materialities Of Late Capitalism (FYS 2018-2109)
Language Matters—Advanced—(2018-2109)
Language, Politics, And Affect – Intermediate – Spring (2014-2015)
Language And The Poetics Of Emotions –Open– Spring (2016-2017)
Cultures Of The Colonial Encounter - Intermediate- Fall (2012-2013)
Global Frictions And Flows In Southeast Asia And Below - Intermediate- Yearlong (2013-2014)
Language And Race- Open- Spring (2010-2011)
Linguistic Anthropology –Intermediate – Yearlong (2009-20010)
Language, Culture, And Interaction – Open- Yearlong (2009-2010)
Language And The Politics Of Everyday Life – Advanced - Fall (2010-2011)
Language, Culture, Performance, And Interaction– First Year Studies (2010-2011)
Constructing The Self And Imagining The Other In The Us And Beyond – Open- Fall (2011-2012)
Field Methods In The Study Of Language And Culture- Intermediate – Fall (2011-2012)
Language, Culture, And Performance –Lecture- Spring(2011-2012)
Political Language And Performance – Advanced- Spring (2011-2012)
The Power Of Words: Language, Hegemony, And Social Inequality - Open- Fall (2012-2013)