Notes on Contributors

Gary Barkhuizen is Professor and Head of the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His teaching and research interests include language teacher education, applied sociolinguistics, and learner language. He is the editor of Narrative Research in Applied Linguistics (2013) and author (with Phil Benson and Alice Chik) of Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research (2014).

Mike Baynham is Professor of TESOL at the University of Leeds. His research interests include literacy, language, and migration as well as oral narrative. He is currently researching translanguaging in a superdiverse inner city neighborhood and LGBT issues in Adult ESOL. He is also developing a research focus on the theme of queer migrations.

Isolda E. Carranza is Full Professor of Linguistics at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She has chaired the Argentine chapter of the Latin American Association of Discourse Studies, reviews articles for major international journals, and serves as a scientific evaluator in university and government funding agencies. Her writings have appeared in Pragmatics, Discourse & Society, Narrative Inquiry, Oralia, and Spanish in Context, and in volumes published by John Benjamins, Erlbaum, Vervuert, and Routledge.

Anna De Fina is Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics in the Italian Department and affiliated Faculty with the Linguistics Department at Georgetown University. Her interests and publications focus on discourse and migration, identity, and narrative. She has authored numerous articles in internationally renowned journals and has edited special issues on these topics. Her books include Identity in Narrative: A Study of Immigrant Discourse (2003, John Benjamins), Discourse and Identity (2006, Cambridge University Press, with Deborah Schiffrin and Michael Bamberg), and Analyzing Narratives (2012, Cambridge University Press, with Alexandra Georgakopoulou).

Arnulf Deppermann is head of the department of Pragmatics at the Institute for the German Language (IDS) and Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His main areas of research include conversation analysis, multimodal interaction, positioning, grammatical constructions, semantics, and understanding in interaction.

Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, Toronto. She works on the intersections of language, gender, and the law. Her books include Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001, Routledge); "Why Do You Ask": The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse (2010, Oxford University Press, co-edited with Alice Freed); and Coercion and Consent in the Legal Process (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, co-edited with Diana Eades and Janet Ainsworth).

Mark Freeman is Professor and Chair of Psychology as well as Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of works including Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative (1993), Routledge and Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward (2010), Oxford, and also serves as editor for the Oxford University Press series "Explorations in Narrative Psychology."

Yiannis Gabriel is Professor of Organizational Theory at Bath University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Lund. Yiannis is known for his work in leadership, management learning, organizational storytelling, and the culture and politics of contemporary consumption. Recently he has researched leadership and patient care and the experiences of unemployed managers and professionals.

Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics, King's College London. She has published 11 books and around 70 articles on conversational storytelling as social interaction and sociocultural practice; language, youth, and gender identities in late modernity; small stories research; and self-presentation in social media.

Charles Goodwin uses video to investigate how language is built through interaction between speakers and hearers, grammar in context, cognition in the lived social world, gesture, gaze, and embodiment as interactively organized social practices, aphasia in discourse, language in the professions, and the ethnography of science.

Cynthia Gordon is Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. A member of the editorial boards of Language in Society and the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, she is also author of Making Meanings, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction (2009, Oxford University Press).

Emily Heavey is a research associate at York St John University. She completed her PhD at King's College London, researching narrative body constructions by people who have undergone amputations and mastectomies. Her research interests include narratives of illness, surgery, and the post-surgery body, narrative identity, sociologies of the body, patient experiences, and narrative medicine.

Matti Hyvärinen, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere, Finland. Hyvärinen is the co-editor of the volumes Beyond Narrative Coherence (2010) and The Travelling Concepts of Narrative (2013), both published by John Benjamins, and the special issue "Narrative Knowing, Living, Telling" for Partial Answers (2008).

Catherine Kohler Riessman is a sociologist and Emerita Professor at Boston University. Throughout her long career, she has studied and compared the narratives women and men develop to account for biographical disruptions, including divorce, infertility, and chronic illness in mid-life. She is the author of Divorce Talk (1990), Narrative Analysis (1993), and Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences (2008), as well as many journal articles and book chapters.

Michele Koven is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds courtesy appointments in Anthropology, Global Studies, French, and the Center for Writing Studies. She is interested in how transnationally mobile people perform and infer cultural identities in a variety of discourse contexts. She is the author of Selves in Two Languages (2007) and numerous articles in major sociolinguistic journals.

Masahiko Minami is Professor at San Francisco State University. He is also an Invited Professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Japanese Linguistics. He received his doctorate from Harvard University. His recent works include Telling Stories in Two Languages: Multiple Approaches to Understanding English-Japanese Bilingual Children's Narratives (2011).

Ruth Page is a Reader at the University of Leicester. Her research spans literary-critical and discourse-analytic research traditions, with a special focus on language and gender and narratives told in new media.

Sabina Perrino is affiliated with the University of Michigan. She earned a PhD in Linguistic and Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has conducted fieldwork in Senegal and among Senegalese migrants in Italy. Her interests include narrative analysis, interaction, textuality, dialect revitalization, transnational migration, and poetics in political speeches.

Catherine R. Rhodes is a joint-PhD candidate in Education, Culture, and Society and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written on scale, narrative, processes of social identification, and the New Latino Diaspora. She currently conducts research in the Yucatan, Mexico on the relationship between the production of scientific knowledge and models of indigenous personhood.

Amy Shuman is Professor of Folklore and Director of Disability Studies at The Ohio State University. Her books include Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents (1986); Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy (2005); and Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century (2007, with Carol Bohmer). She is a core faculty member of Project Narrative at Ohio State University.

Stef Slembrouck is a Professor at Ghent University. His research addresses communicative practices in institutional contexts, including the effects of globalization-affected multilingualism. Recent book publications include Language Practices in Social Work: Categorization and Accountability in Child Welfare (2006, with Christopher Hall and Srikant Sarangi) and Globalization and Language Contact: Scale, Migration, and Communicative Practices (2009, with James Collins and Mike Baynham).

Dorien Van De Mieroop is an assistant professor in Dutch linguistics at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on the discursive analysis of identity construction in interview narratives and in naturally occurring interactions. She has published articles in Discourse & Society, Narrative Inquiry, Pragmatics, etc.

Stanton Wortham is Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education at...