Contact Information
244 Lincoln Hall
702 S Wright
M/C 456
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Interests
The role of culture in verbal interaction
how speakers perform and infer cultural identities in their own and others' talk
style shifting and code switching in discourse
bilingualism
intercultural communication
sociolinguistics
oral narrative
Research Description
Professor Koven researches the relationships between identity and language practices in migrant communities. She is addresses how bilingual speakers enact multiple, culturally situated identities in talk, with a particular focus on narrative discourse.
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Communication
Professor, French and Italian
Professor, Linguistics
Research Associate, Anthropology
Professor, European Union Center
Professor, Global Studies Programs and Courses
Highlighted Publications
Koven, M. E. J. (2007). Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals’ verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese. (Studies in Bilingualism; Vol. 34). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.34
Recent Publications
Koven, M., Kramer, E., & Perrino, S. M. (2024). Introduction to “Scaling stories: Narratives and the dialogic regimentation of scales”. Discourse Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241276718
Koven, M. (2023). Affect in cross-chronotope alignments in narrations about Aristides de Sousa Mendes and their subsequent circulations. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 33(3), 350-372. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12411
Koven, M., & Marques, I. S. (2021). Multiaddressivity and Collective Addressivity in Vlog-based Interactions between Diasporic and Nonmigrant Portuguese. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(1), 97-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12301
Koven, M. (2019). Narrating Desire for Place: Chronotopes of Desire for the Portuguese Homeland Before and After “Return”. In R. Piazza (Ed.), Discourses of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces (pp. 42-63). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351183383-3
Marques, I. S., & Koven, M. E. J. (2018). (Co)narrações de viagens para Portugal por lusodescendentes no Facebook. Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 134-151. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln4ano2018a37