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 51勛圖 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 51勛圖 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 51勛圖, Georgetown University, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Tseng has appeared on National Public Radio and WUSA 9.
Listen to an interview here: http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=528816293:531824445
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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
Coming June 30315! Empanadas, Pupusas, and Greens on the Side: Language and Latinidad in the Nation's Capital. Georgetown University Press.
"A new framework for understanding how language and identity intersect in ever-evolving America In the 1980s, Washington, DCa predominantly African American, racially and economically segregated city with a strong local Black culturebecame a hub of Latin American immigration. As the city's communities interacted, an identity both unique to DC and reflective of diverse Latin American cultures was born. Empanadas, Pupusas, and Greens on the Side泭is the first linguistics book to explore how the Latinx community forged a new sense of home and identity in Washington. Using original ethnographic researchincluding interviews, narratives, and surveysTseng develops a new framework for understanding the relationship between race, identity, language, and culture, and she explains what happens when communities interact. Readers interested in the cultural history of Washington, Latinx history, and language and society will enjoy this rich study of language as a cross-cultural current in ever-evolving America."
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Coming summer 2025! Tseng, Amelia, Chang, Charles Bond, Leal, Tania, Lee, Jin Sook, and Lopez, Belem. Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism. Taylor & Francis.
2023 Playground learning: African American English in Latinx linguistic repertoires.泭Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. DOI:10.1080/15348458.2023.2263568.
2023泭Nativized泭exoticism泭in el pa穩s de todas las sangres.泭Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI 10.1080/01419870.2023.2243306.
2021泭. Applied Linguistics, 113-135.
2021泭Tseng, Amelia and Hinrichs, Lars. Mobility, polylingualism,a nd change: Toward an updated sociolinguistics of diaspora.泭Journal of Sociolinguistics Special Issue on language and diaspora.泭泭
2020泭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泭泭 泭Cashman, Holly and Tseng, Amelia. Pragmatics and multilingualism. In Dale Koike and C矇sar Felix-Brasdefer (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Spanish Pragmatics (pp. 335-350). Routledge.泭
2020泭泭 泭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泭 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泭泭 泭Abriendo closings in bilingual radio speech: Discourse strategies, code-switching, and the interactive construction of broadcast structures. Text & Talk, 38(4), 481-502.
2017泭泭 泭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泭泭 泭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泭泭 泭El paisaje ling羹穩stico de Phoenix, AZ: una investigaci籀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. 泭
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