Applied Linguistics

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Maya Angela Eipe Smith
Professor of French
Associate Dean for Equity, Justice and Inclusion
Lorenzo Giachetti
Associate Teaching Professor of French

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Related Research

“Centering Race and Multilingualism in French Linguistics.” Decolonizing Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-56, 2024.
“Creating a More Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive French Foreign Language Classroom” in ADFL Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 12-26, 2022.
“Navigating Gendered, Racialized, and Migrant Identities: Senegalese Women Artists’ Reflections on Learning Italian in Rome.” Interculturality in Institutions. Springer, pp. 87-115, 2022.
Smith, Maya Angela. “The Senegalese diaspora in Rome: Romanesco and other nonstandard varieties in the face of standard language ideologies.” Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires of Immigrants in Italy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 169-96, 2022.
Smith, Maya Angela. "Inclusive pedagogies in Italian studies: Using sociolinguistic data to decolonise the curriculum." Italian Studies in Southern Africa, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 204-225, 2022.
Smith, Maya Angela. “The Journal Rappé: ‘Edutaining’ the Youth through Senegalese Hip-Hop.” Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent, edited by Kemi Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019.
Smith, Maya Angela. Senegal Abroad: Linguistic borders, racial formations, and diasporic imaginaries. University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.
Smith, Maya Angela. Negotiating Martinican Identity amid French Universalism: Racial and Linguistic Considerations. Francospheres 7(1), pp. 49-69, 2018.
Smith, Maya Angela. Who is a Legitimate French Speaker?: The Senegalese in Paris and the Crossing of Linguistic and Social Borders. French Cultural Studies 26(3), pp. 317–329, 2015.
Smith, Maya Angela. Multilingual Practices of Senegalese Immigrants in Rome: Construction of Identities and Negotiation of Boundaries. Italian Culture 33(2), 126-146, 2015.