I am currently an Assistant Professor in the department of communication at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT. I finished my PhD in May 2012 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. While attending UMass I worked most closely with Dr. Donal Carbaugh, my advisor and chair of my dissertation committee, as well as Dr. Benjamin Bailey, though there were many great faculty there I was privileged to learn from. Prior to that I completed an MA at SUNY Albany where I worked closely wi...

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern State University. I received my PhD from the University of Iowa in 2012. My advisor was Kristine Muñoz. What LSI pieces of writing have inspirational to you as a researcher? I switched my research focus from media to language and culture in my second year of graduate study. Donal Carbaugh’s “Fifty Terms for Talk” was the first article my advisor introduced to me and led me to the LSI field. It inspired ...

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Mark in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below.   Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where did you study, and what is your current position? I did my PhD at Clemson University and completed it in 2010. Today I am an Assistant Professor ...

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Saila in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below.   Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where did you study, and what is your current position? I got my PhD from the University of Washington in 1999. I went to UW to study under Gerry Phil...

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Saila in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below.   Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where did you study, and what is your current position? I studied both in Finland and the United States. I have a master’s degree in Speech Communicat...

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Gonen in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below.   Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where did you study, and what is your current position? I studied at various places, Hebrew University with Shoshanna Blum-Kulka, at UCLA with Manny (...

What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? It's quite a challenge to single out only one inspirational piece of writing out of many outstanding ones. At different moments of my career as an LSI researcher, the ideas of Bakhtin, Sacks, Goffman, Jacobs and Jackson, just to name a few scholars, contributed to my intellectual growth and shaped the directions of my research. That's why I decided to revisit my past and to remember the beginnings. I have a back...

http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/swagner What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? I think I'm going to be greedy here and claim two entire books. The first is Paul Drew and John Heritage's (1992) masterpiece collection Talk at work. As a graduate student venturing into the field of discourse, Talk at work was a revelation to me. My copy still has all the post-its I attached, complete with giddy scribblings: “Read this again”, “procedural consequentiali...

http://www.mountsaintvincent.edu/6131.htm What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? There are so many pieces of LSI writing that have been and continue to be a source of inspiration and wonder for me. While it is difficult to select one, the one that has been most inspirational and foundational to my research and career is W. Barnett Pearce’s (1994) text, Interpersonal Communication: Making Social Worlds. This was the textbook for my first communication...