Jennifer

(she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor, Academic Literacy and Linguistics

I am a linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the study of language and racialization in the urban United States. My research focuses on the experiences of racially minoritized groups in educational settings. My book is called “Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children” (Lexington Books).

Contact

212-220-1407

Publications

Delfino, Jennifer B. 2021. “White Allies and the Semiotics of Wokeness: Raciolinguistic Chronotopes of White Virtue on Facebook.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, May 2021 special issue (forthcoming). 

Delfino, Jennifer B. 2020. Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Delfino, Jennifer B. 2020. “Talking ‘Like a Race’: Gender, Authority, and Articulate Speech in African American Students’ Marking Speech Acts.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language 265: 57-79. 

Delfino, Jennifer B. and Maureen Kosse. 2020. “Racialization and the National Body: (Re)Defining Selves and Others in Changing Contexts of Liberal Democratic Governance.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language 265: 1-7. 

Delfino, Jennifer. B. 2016. “Fighting Words?: Joning as Conflict Talk and Identity Performance Among African American Preadolescents.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 20(5): 631-653.