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Dominika M Baran

Associate Professor of English
English
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
English Department, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Presentations & Appearances


Multilingualism and sociocultural linguistics: What is multilingualism from a sociolinguistic / linguistic anthropological perspective? Presented at the “What is multilingualism?” panel, “What is… ?” - Dialogue Series · February 9, 2023 Invited Talk Global Jewish Modernism Lab, Duke University
Anti-genderism and the discursive construction of “truth” in the email newsletter of a Polish ultraconservative NGO Centrum Życia i Rodziny. - Language, Ideology, and Social Differentiation Conference · September 26, 2022 - September 28, 2023 International Meeting or Conference Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Rainbow plague” or “rainbow allies?” TĘCZA “rainbow” as a floating signifier in current media discourses in Poland - Lavender Languages and Linguistics 28 · May 23, 2022 - May 25, 2022 International Meeting or Conference Catania, Italy
The rightwing construction of LGBTQ+ communities as the national “enemy” in recent nationalist discourses in Poland - Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology · April 7, 2022 - April 9, 2022 International Meeting or Conference University of Colorado, Boulder,
“Crown Jesus, not the virus!”: COVID denial and rightwing nationalist populism in Poland. - 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association · November 17, 2021 - November 21, 2021 International Meeting or Conference Baltimore, MD
“God, Honor, Fatherland” and “LGBT-free Poland”: Homophobia and transphobia in the right-wing discursive construction of Polish national identity - the Sociolinguistic Symposium 23 · June 2021 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Hong Kong
“Crown Jesus, not the virus!”: Intersections of nationalism, ultraconservative Catholicism, antigenderism, anti-ecologism, and pandemic denial in Poland - 2021 conference of the International Pragmatic Association · June 2021 International Meeting or Conference Winterthur, Switzerland
Translocal identities: Negotiating belonging in Facebook chats and in person among former fellow refugees. - Personal Identity through a Language Lens (PILL4) Conference · May 12, 2017 - May 13, 2017 International Meeting or Conference University of Łódź, Poland
Taiwan Mandarin SAY verb shuo as a complementizer: An ongoing grammaticalization process - NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) Asia-Pacific conference · April 22, 2016 - April 24, 2016 International Meeting or Conference National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
Taiwan Mandarin SAY verb shuo as a complementizer: An ongoing grammaticalization process. - NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) Asia-Pacific conference · April 22, 2016 - April 24, 2016 International Meeting or Conference National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
Memories, identities, and new translocal meanings: Discussing migration on Facebook and face-to-face among former fellow refugees. - Sociolinguistic Symposium · June 15, 2014 - June 18, 2014 International Meeting or Conference Jyväskylä, Finland
“I will die feeling Polish” or “I feel a citizen of planet Earth”? The language of belonging and difference among former fellow refugees on Facebook. · June 1, 2013 Lecture Language and Super-diversity: Explorations and Interrogations conference, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Grammaticalization of shuo ‘to say’ as complementizer in Taiwan Mandarin. · January 1, 2013 Lecture Linguistic Society of America 2013 Annual Meeting, Boston.
Sociolinguistic variation in Taiwan Mandarin: deretroflection and labial glide deletion among Taipei County high school students. · February 1, 2011 Lecture NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) Asia-Pacific conference, Delhi.
Ideologies of language and social class: Explaining variation in Taiwan Mandarin through a language ideology framework. · November 6, 2010 Lecture NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 39 conference in San Antonio, TX. November 4-7, 2010.
Language ideologies and social inequality in educational institutions: A case study of a Taipei County high school · October 15, 2010 Lecture East Asian Language Pedagogy Research Group Department Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
Aspiring to be local: Language ideology, practice and variation in a Taiwan high school · April 1, 2008 Lecture Sociolinguistic Symposium 17, Amsterdam

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Team Leader - Representing Migration through Digital Humanities · 2019 - 2020 Projects & Field Work Bass Connections Open

Service to the Profession


Programming Committee · 2023 Committee Service , Society for Linguistic Anthropology,
Co-chair - Language and Social Justice Committee · 2020 Committee Service Society for Linguistic Anthropology,
Co-chair · 2019 - 2022 Committee Service Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology,
Core member - Language and Social Justice Committee · 2018 - 2020 Committee Service Society for Linguistic Anthropology,