[Bio c. 2015]
I am a linguistic anthropologist who studies ethnopoetics and verbal art more generally. My focus is on the intersections between verbal art and poetics, the individual, acoustemology, language change, language contact, aesthetics, and linguistic and social inequalities (the whole life of a language). This leads me to think a great deal about felt connections to linguistic forms in use and over time. Questions of imagination and expressive satisfication loom large (and loudly) here as well. My goal in this work is not so much “translation,” but rather with the proceses of attunement–of coming to terms with the particularities of our exuberances and deficiencies. Particularities of memory, of history, of people, of time, and of languages. I have worked primarily with Navajo poets. My current work focuses on mondegreens (the mishearing of the words of a poem or song) as imaginative accomplishments.
Created 2018-09-14 1:19:30 PM. Most recently updated 2018-09-14 1:19:30 PM
| Role | Project |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Aeolian Politics Poetry Workshop |