Amelia Tseng Assistant Professor World Languages and Cultures
- Degrees
- Ph.D Georgetown University, Linguistics
M.S. Georgetown University, Linguistics
M.A. Arizona State University, Spanish Linguistics
B.A. Magna Cum Laude Wellesley College, Spanish and English - Bio
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Dr. Amelia Tseng is Assistant Professor in Spanish and Linguistics. Her research addresses how language shapes and is shaped by identity across immigrant generations in Latinx diasporic contexts, focusing on multilingualism, dialect variation, discourse, and the construction of ethnoracial and cultural identity.
Dr. Tseng coordinates the 麻豆视频 Linguistics Program. She is Principal Investigator on the Washington, D.C. Latinx Language and Identity project (DCLLIP). She is affiliate faculty in Anthropology and the Center for Latin American and Latino studies at 麻豆视频 and previously directed the Bilingual Education program. Dr. Tseng held a Research Associate appointment at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage from 2016-2022. Her university teaching and research have been recognized through awards from 麻豆视频, Georgetown University, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Tseng has appeared on National Public Radio and WUSA 9.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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LING-401 Sounds of Language & Meaning
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SPAN-466 Spanish Language in the U.S.
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Forthcoming. Playground learning: African American English in Latinx linguistic repertoires.聽Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. DOI:10.1080/15348458.2023.2263568.
2023聽Nativized聽exoticism聽in 鈥渆l pa铆s de todas las sangres鈥.聽Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI 10.1080/01419870.2023.2243306.
2021听. Applied Linguistics, 113-135.
2021听Tseng, Amelia and Hinrichs, Lars. Mobility, polylingualism,a nd change: Toward an updated sociolinguistics of diaspora.聽Journal of Sociolinguistics Special Issue on language and diaspora.聽聽
2020聽Flores, Nelson, Subtirelu, Nicholas, and Tseng, Amelia (eds.), Raciolinguistic perspectives on dual language education. Multilingual Matters.
2020. Tseng, Amelia and Hinrichs, Lars. Mobility and the English Language. In Aarts, Bas, McMahon, April, and Lars Hinrichs (ed.), Handbook of English Linguistics, 2nd ed. Wiley Blackwell.
2020聽聽 聽Cashman, Holly and Tseng, Amelia. Pragmatics and multilingualism. In Dale Koike and C茅sar Felix-Brasdefer (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Spanish Pragmatics (pp. 335-350). Routledge.聽
2020聽聽 聽Identity. In Susana Eisenchlas and Andrea Schalley (eds.), Handbook on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance (pp. 109-129). Mouton de Gruyter.
2020 Normalization of dialect translinguistics in an internally diverse global-city diasporic聽 community. In Jerry Won Lee and Sender Dovchin (eds.), Translinguistics: Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness (pp. 146-160). Routledge.
2020 Advancing a sociolinguistics of complexity: Spanish-speaking identities in Washington, D.C. In Andrew Lynch (ed.), Handbook on Spanish in the Global City (pp. 330-354). Routledge.
2018聽聽 聽Abriendo closings in bilingual radio speech: Discourse strategies, code-switching, and the interactive construction of broadcast structures. Text & Talk, 38(4), 481-502.
2017聽聽 聽De Fina, Anna, and Tseng, Amelia. Narrative in the study of migrants. In Suresh Canagarajah (ed.), Handbook on Migration and Language (pp. 381-396). Routledge. Winner of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Book Prize 2020.
2011聽聽 聽DJ stances, station goals: Performing identity on a bilingual Arizona radio show. Proceedings of the 12th Symposium About Language and Society (SALSA): 2011-Austin, Texas Linguistics Forum (TLF), 54, 57-71.
2007聽聽 聽El paisaje ling眉铆stico de Phoenix, AZ: una investigaci贸n preliminar (The linguistic landscape of Phoenix, AZ: a preliminary investigation). Proceedings of the University of Arizona Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language, and Culture: 2007, 11-28. 聽
Professional Presentations
Recent keynotes:
9th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL), 2022
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 49, 2021
California Association for Bilingual Teacher Education (CABTE)/California Council for Teacher Education (CCTE) Annual Conference. 2021
3rd International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration (SLIMIG), 2018