Academic Positions

Referee for:

JOURNALS:

Journal of Child Language, First Language, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Journal of Narrative and Life History, Discourse Processes, Cognitive Development, Language, Linguistics, Developmental Psychology, Human Development, Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics, Culture and Psychology, Journal for Experimental Child Psychology, The Narrative Study of Lives, Applied Psycholinguistics, Language in Society, International Journal of Bilingualism, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, Discourse Studies

 

PUBLISHERS:

Oxford University Press, Nebraska University Press, John Benjamin Publishers, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Cambridge University Press; Sage; Routledge

 

ORGANIZATIONS:

Spencer Foundation (USA) (1994); The Wellcome Trust (GB) (1997); NYU Research Challenge Fund Program (USA) (1999); Fullbright Selection Committee (Trier, Germany) (1997), National Endowment for the Humanities (2001), American Council of Learned Societies (2002)

 

CONFERENCES:

AERA 1990, 1995, 1996; IASCL 1996, 1999; AAAL, 1999, 2000, 2001;  SRCD, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005; International Conference on Social Construction and Relational Practices 1999; Text & Discourse 2001, 2004; International Cognitive Linguistics Society 2001;  Jean Piaget Society 2003; 2004; 2005

Conference and Meeting Organizations

 2004

July 13-18, 2003 - 8^th International Pragmatics Conference in Toronto, Canada – Panel on Positioning

June 5-7, 2003 -- 33^rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society – Symposium on Discourse and Gender Development

March 22-25, 2003 -- AAAL-Meetings in Arlington, VA – Panel on Positioning (Sat morning 9:00-12:30)

"Identity, Talk, and Interaction: The Construction of Maleness across Four Cultures - Methodological and Theoretical Issues. Symposium at the 3^rd Conference for Sociocultural Research, Campinas, Brazil, July 2000.

Special Forum on Journals, Publication - Publica  es, Revistas at the 3^rd Conference for Sociocultural Research, Campinas, Brazil, July 2000 (coordinator of the forum with other journal editors from the US, Europe, and Latin America).

"Identity, Talk and Interaction: The Construction of Gender in Different Cultures and Different Discourses - Methodological and Theoretical Issues." Panel at the 7^th International Pragmatics Association, Budapest, Hungary, July 2000

"From Talk to Identity: How to Interpret Discourse Data for Identity Claims." Hiatt Conference held at Clark University in March 2000.

Theme Session on "The Self": Deconstruction/Reconstruction." Held at the Social Construction and Relational Practices Conference at he University of New Hampshire, September 1999.

Luxembourg Conference: "From Talk to Identity: How to Interpret Discourse Data for Identity Claims." Luxembourg, Centre Universitaire, July 1999.

Conversation Hour: "Cultural Psychology and Discursive Psychology: A Challenge to Developmental Psychology," at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April 1997 [together with Jaan Valsiner].

Symposium on: "Different Theoretical Perspectives on Language Development," at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April 1997 [together with Nancy Budwig].

Symposium on "Emotion and Involvement in Child Language / Discourse," at the VIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Istanbul, Turkey, July 1996.

Symposium on "Emotion and Involvement in Text, Discourse, and Conversation," at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, July 1995.

Fifth New England Symposium on Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences, Clark University, Worcester, MA, March 1993.

Symposium on Narrative Development: Theories and Methodologies, at the Eleventh Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Minneapolis, MN, July 1991.

Second New England Symposium on Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences, Clark University, Worcester, MA, December 1990.

   NARRATIVE WORKSHOP Organization

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  Week-long workshop @ Aalborg, Denmark – August 2006; organized by Paul McElvenny (DeXus-Workshop)
  

        Monday, March 3, 2003 - Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland - coordinated by Dr. Jean Quigley <[e-mail]>

            Saturday, December 13, 2003 - Swarthmore College, PA - coordinated by Professors Jeanne Marecek <[e-mail]> and Ageliki Nicolopoulou <[e-mail]>

            Friday, January 30, 2004 - U Texas @ Austin - coordinated by Professor Jürgen Streeck <[e-mail]>

            One-Day workshop: Thursday, May 20, 2004 - Pre-Conference Workshop (Narrative Matters 2004), Fredericton, NB, Canada - conference coordinator: Professor William L. Randall <[e-mail]>

            1.5-Day workshop: July 31-Aug 1, 2004 - IACCP Pre-Conference Workshop, Xi'an, P. R. of China, conference coordinator: Professor Zheng Gang <[e-mail]>

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  ½-Day workshop: April 11 – Huddersfield University, UK; coordinator: Brian Roberts
  

 

Teaching Experience

1992 - Associate/Full Professor, Department of Psychology, and Department of Communication & Culture, Clark University. Courses: “Gender Development & Language”, "Identity Formation", “Language, Gender & the Self”, "Psychology, Communication and the Self", Laboratory in "Language and Communication," "Language and Emotion", "Discourse Analysis", "Ethnopsychologies", "Approaches to Psychological Research", Graduate Forum on "The Self", Graduate Course on "Qualitative Methodology", Proseminar in Developmental Psychology (Graduate Seminar), 175.775 The Narrative Perspective - Web-Course (Part of the Long-Distance Masters Program in Psychology – offered through the School of Psychology # Massey University, New Zealand)

1991 - 1992                Visiting Professor, John F Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin. Course: The Discursive Construction of Masculinity

1997 (Apr.-Aug.) Visiting Professor at Universität Trier; course title: "Selbstkonzepte als soziale Konstruktion" (‘Self-Concepts as Social Constructions’)

1995 (June - Aug.) 6-week teaching appointment as Visiting Professor by the American Linguistic Society for the Summer Linguistic Institute at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1986 - 1992 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Clark University. Courses: "Language, Emotions, Thought, and Culture", "Introduction to Cognition", "Child Development", Laboratory in "Language and Communication", "Language Development", "Narrative Discourse", Graduate Proseminar in "Developmental Psychology", "Theories of Language Development" (Graduate Seminar), "Narrative Discourse" (Graduate Seminar).

1985 - 1986 'DAAD-Lektor', Foreign Language Institute, Tongji University, Shanghai. Areas of instruction and supervision: Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Theory of L₂ -Acquisition.

1982 - 1985 ‘Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter', Department of Sociology, Free University of Berlin. Courses: "Language Acquisition and Socialization", "Language and Cognition", "Discourse Analysis", "Language, Culture and Metaphor", "Theories of Language Acquisition", "Analyzing Narratives - Lab Course".---Visiting lecturing courses in the German and Education Departments of the Free University, and at the Psychology Department of the Technical University of Berlin.

1981 Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley (two quarters). Courses: "Child Language Acquisition", "Child Language-Lab Course".

1975 - 1978 'DAAD-Lektor', Department of Language, University of York, England. Courses: "Use of German", "Advanced German Written Style", "Introduction to German".

1972 & 1973 High School Teaching (Munich and Lehrte, Germany) (cf. publications concerning curriculum development: Bamberg & Walter 1973, 1974).

University Committees

2000 - 2003 2001Steering Committee of CECIL (Clark European Center in Luxembourg)

1995 - 1998 Graduate Board (Clark University - elected faculty member)

1994 - 2003 Faculty member in the Department "Communication & Culture"

1993 - 2001 Studies Abroad Committee (Clark University)

1992 - 1995 International Studies Committee (Clark University)

1991 - 1997 Communication Studies Committee (Clark University)

1986 - 2000 Institutional Review Board ("Human Ethics Committee") (Clark University)

1984 - 1985 Chairing "Sozialisation + Subjektivitaet", Institut für Soziologie, FU Berlin

Languages

German Native

English Near native

Dutch okay knowledge

Chinese Fair knowledge (no reading ability) (2 years of instruction)

Latin & Greek High school instruction (9 and 6 years, respectively)

Maori Starting knowledge (occasionally making use of Maori culture + language structure in  introductory courses)

Organization Memberships

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APS – since 2005 American Psychology Association (APA) - since 2001

Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD) - since 2001

Society for Research on Identity Formation (SRIF) - since 2003

Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) - since 2003

International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) - since 2003

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) - since 2003

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) - since 1995

Society for Text and Discourse (STD) - since 1991

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) - since 1990

International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) - since 1989

Massachusetts Interdisciplinary Discourse Analysis Seminar (MIDAS) - since 1987

New England Child Language Association (NECLA) - since 1986

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) - since 1985

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)

The International Association for the Study of Child Language

Cognitive Science Society

The Association for the Study of Play (TASP)

The Modern Language Association of America (MLA)

The Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB)

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