Research Interests
- Language aggression and conflict
- Im/politeness models and theories
- Genre theory
- Identity construction
- Traditional and digitally mediated communication
Research Projects
Current
- Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
- Understanding the evolution of conflict: private to public
- Diaspora and hybrid identity construction on-line: the Latino case
Past
- Interaction on YouTube’s textual facility
- Reality television: aggression and identity construction
- Proposing a integrative im/politeness model
- Reconceptualizing face and identity
- New (digital) genres of political discourse.
Teaching Projects
Current
New concentration on language and digital technologies – preparing new, core course for the concentration: ENGL 4168 Multimodality and texts.