Between Zora Neale, Hamlet, and a “Dope Black Woman”: Revisiting Language Ideology Through Alysia Harris’s Performance Poetry

Biografia autore

• Jamie A. Thomas, University of California Santa Barbara

  Jamie A. Thomas focuses on discourse, embodiment, popular culture, and language
  learning as a sociocultural linguist and linguistic anthropologist. She is co-editor of
  Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse, and author of the
  ethnography Zombies Speak Swahili: Race, Horror, and Sci-fi from Mexico and Tanzania
  to Hollywood. A Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow and Visiting Scholar at
  the University of California Santa Barbara (2018-2019), Jamie has taught at Middlebury
  College and Swarthmore College. In Fall 2019 she joined Santa Monica College.