Susan Gal

(PhD, U California, Berkeley 1976) Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Social Sciences in the College, is presently doing research on the political economy of language, including linguistic nationalism, language and gender, and especially the rhetorical and symbolic aspects of political transformation in contemporary eastern Europe and post socialism generally. Her work focuses as well on the construction of gender and discourses of reproduction.
E-mail: s-gal@uchicago.edu

Publications:

1991 Bartok's funeral: Representations of Europe in Hungarian political rhetoric. American Ethnologist 18:3:440-458.

1991 Between speech and silence: The problematics of research on language and gender. In M. di Leonardo, ed., Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 175-203.

1994 Gender in the post-socialist transition: The abortion debate in Hungary. East European Politics and Societies 8:2:256-286.

1995 Language and the 'arts of resistance.' Cultural Anthropology. 10:3:407-424

1995 (with J.T. Irvine) The boundaries of languages and disciplines: How ideologies construct difference. Social Research. 62:4:966-1001.

1997 Feminism and civil society. In J. Scott, C. Kaplan & D. Keats, eds., Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics. NY: Rutledge, pp. 30-45.

1998 Multiplicity and contestation among linguistic ideologies. In K. Woolard & B. Schieffelin, eds., Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Oxford University Press, pp. 317-331.

2000 (with Gail Kligman) (eds.) Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism. Princeton University Press. [Winner of the Heldt Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2000.]

2000 (with Gail Kligman) The Politics of Gender After Socialism: A Comparative Historical Essay.

2000 (with J.T. Irvine) Language ideology and linguistic differentiation. In P. Kroskrity, ed., Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, pp. 35-84.

2001 (with K. Woolard) (eds.) Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority. Manchester UK: St. Jerome 's Press. Contains “Introduction” and the article “Linguistic theories and national images in 19 th century Hungary ,” pp. 30-45.

2002 A semiotics of the public/private distinction. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 13:1:77-95.

2003 Movements of feminism: The circulation of discourses about women. In B. Hobson, ed., Recognition Struggles and Social Movements: Contested Identities, Power and Agency. Cambridge U. Press, pp. 93-120.

2005 Language ideologies compared: Metaphors and circulations of public and private. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 15:1:23-37.

2006  Minorities, migration and multilingualism: Language ideologies in Europe . In P. Stevenson & Mar-Molinaro, eds., Language Ideologies, Practices and Policies: Language and the Future of Europe . London : Palgrave.

2006  Contradictions of standard language in Europe: Implications for the study of publics and practices. Social Anthropology. 14(2): 163-181.

2007  Language and Political Space. In P. Auer and J.R. Schmidt, eds., Language and Space. Mouton de Gruyter (in press) 

2006  (ed.) Gender and Circulation in East European Politics and Societies (Special Issue), East European Politics and Societies. 20:1:1-180.  Contains: "Introduction: Gender and Circulation," 1-14.

2008  (with J.T. Irvine) Language Ideology and Social Differentiation. (forthcoming)