Angela Reyes (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2003) is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). She teaches courses in the structure and history of English, English linguistics, discourse analysis, language and ethnicity, Asian Americans and language, and language and racism. She is Doctoral Faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, Affiliated Faculty in the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, and Research Associate at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society in the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center.

She works on theories of semiotics, discourse, indexicality, and racialization. Combining ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis of video-recorded interaction, her research examines how ideologies of race and ethnicity are formulated through spatiotemporal scales of communicative context, particularly in informal educational sites for Asian American urban youth. She has conducted two main linguistic anthropological studies: a four-year study of Southeast Asian American teenagers in an after-school videomaking project at an Asian American community arts organization in Philadelphia; and a one-year study of Korean American fifth graders in an Asian American cram school in New York City.

She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2010), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty (2006-2007), and National Research Council/Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities (2002-2003).

Selected publications:

Reyes, Angela (2011) "Racist!": Metapragmatic regimentation of racist discourse by Asian American youth. Discourse and Society 22(4): 458-473.

Alim, H. Samy and Angela Reyes (2011) Complicating race: Articulating race across multiple social dimensions. Discourse and Society 22(4): 379-384.

Reyes, Angela and Adrienne Lo (eds) (2009) Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Reyes, Angela (2007) Language, Identity, and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Reyes, Angela (2005) Appropriation of African American slang by Asian American youth. Journal of Sociolinguistics 9(4): 509-532.

Reyes, Angela (2004) Asian American stereotypes as circulating resource. Pragmatics 14(2/3): 115-125.

Reyes, Angela (2002) "Are you losing your culture?": Poetics, indexicality, and Asian American identity. Discourse Studies 4(2): 183-199.

For full CV, click here (last updated December 2011)