Dominika M Baran, Associate Professor of English

My research interests encompass language, identity, and migration, as well as language, gender, and sexuality. My 2017 book, Language in Immigrant America, is an interdisciplinary examination of language as a site for the contestation of  “immigrant” and “American” identities, and argues that these two categories have always been overlapping, conflicting, fluid, and mutually constitutive, as well as formed in the context of multilingualism. My current book project focuses on narratives of migration and belonging among former fellow refugees, and on narratives and discourse on social media. I am particularly interested in how migrant identities are formed and enacted through discourse and linguistic practices, such as code-switching and translanguaging. Simultaneously, I have been researching anti-LGBTQ+ discourses and far-right nationalism with a focus on Poland. This work is based on critical analyses of Polish far-right media, political, and ultraconservative Catholic discourses since 2019, and unmasks how queerphobia is mobilized to support multiple far-right agendas including extreme nationalism and conspiracy theories around COVID-19 denial.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	English Department, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/web/linguistics/index.html/~dmb50

Teaching (Fall 2024):

• ENGLISH 204.01, HISTORY OF ENGLISH Synopsis

  Allen 103, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as LINGUIST 204.01)

• ENGLISH 395.01, LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY Synopsis

  Allen 326, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 212.01, ICS 395.01, LINGUIST 451.01, RIGHTS 395.01, SES 385.01)

• LINGUIST 202.01, LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD Synopsis

  Old Chem 003, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 202.01, ICS 210.01, RUSSIAN 362.01)

• ENGLISH 390S-7.02, SP TOPICS IN LANG & LIT Synopsis

  Gray 319, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 490S.02, GSF 490S.02, LINGUIST 390S.02)

Office Hours:

Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	2007
M.A.	Harvard University	1999
BA	Harvard University	1996

Specialties:

Linguistics

Keywords:

discourse analysis, narrative • Discourse Analysis, Narrative • Identity • linguistic analysis (linguistics) • Linguistic Analysis (linguistics) • mandarin dialects • Mandarin Dialects • Multilingualism • sociolinguistics • Sociolinguistics • united states--emigration and immigration--history • United States--emigration and Immigration--history

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. N/A, Anti-genderism in Global Nationalist Movements, edited by Tebaldi, C; Baran, D, Gender and Language no. Special issue (2023), Equinox Publishing
2. Baran, D, Defending Christianity from the “rainbow plague”: Historicized narratives of nationhood in rightwing antigenderist discourses in Poland, Gender and Language, vol. 17 no. 1 (2023), Equinox Publishing
3. Baran, D, American immigrants and English, in In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes (2023)
4. Baran, D, “Rainbow plague” or “rainbow allies”? TĘCZA “rainbow” as a floating signifier in the contestation of Poland’s national identity., Gender and Language, vol. 16 no. 3 (2022), pp. 286-307 [doi]  [abs]
5. Baran, D, Translocal spaces and identities: Negotiating belonging among former refugees in a Facebook group message, edited by Ciepiela, K, Language, Identity and Community (Lodz Studies in Language series) (2019), Peter Lang