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Lauren Zentz

Dr. Zentz specializes in issues related to nationalism and state formation, online communication, politics/political activism, and鈥痩anguage socialization and identity. In her current research project, titled鈥�"The Discourses of Internet Political Organization" (DIPO), she has conducted ethnographic studies of political activists'鈥痮rganizing practices on鈥痵ocial media platforms (resulting in the book,鈥�"Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity: Building a Movement on Facebook," Routledge, 2021). Her current book project, also a part of the larger鈥疍IPO鈥痯roject, is titled "Echo Chambers and Epistemological Bubbles: Corporate Media, Neoliberal Governance, and Communicative Flirtation with the End of Democracy."鈥疘n this project, an autoethnographic and critical discourse analytic endeavor, she is examining mass media discourses (via news organization websites as well as select news providers' Twitter feeds) dating from the 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection January 6th, through the 100th day of the Biden Presidency, with a particular eye to national debates about and reckonings with the nature of our democracy as we transitioned from the Trump鈥疨residency鈥痶o the Biden Presidency.鈥疘n Dr. Zentz's prior work, she focused on Indonesian nationalism and state formation, Indonesian language policies, and language learning and identity among English majors in Central Java.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Arizona 
  • M.A., University of Ottawa 
  • B.A., B.S., University of Florida鈥赌赌赌赌赌�

Selected Publications

Books
  • Zentz, L. (2021). . Routledge. 
  • Zentz, L. (2017). . Multilingual Matters. 
  • Reviews: 
    • Jacob, C. (2018). .鈥�Language in Society 47, 156-157. doi:10.1017/S0047404517000884 
    • Kang, Y. (2019).鈥�.鈥�Journal of Sociolinguistics 23, 555-570. DOI: 10.1111/josl.12367 
    • Wee, L. (2018). .鈥疞anguage Policy 17, 281-283.  

 Articles/Chapters

  • Zentz, L. (forthcoming). #LadiesWeGotYou: Stances of Moral-Political Alignment in the Formation of Group Identity on Facebook. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 
  • Zentz, L. (forthcoming). 鈥淚 AM HERE AND I MATTER鈥�: Virtue Signaling and Moral-Political Stance in Progressive Activists鈥� Facebook Posts. Narrative Inquiry. 
  • Zentz, L. (forthcoming). Scaling up and scaling down: Progressive activists rescaling the nation on Facebook. New Media and Society. 
  • Zentz, L. (2019). Moving languages: syncretism and shift in Central Java. In Goebel, Z., Cole, D., & Mann, H. (eds.), Contact Talk: The Discursive Organization of Contact and Boundaries, pp. 53-71.  Routledge. 
  • Zentz, L. (2019). 鈥楨pisode hari ini disponsori oleh N眉 Green Tea鈥� [Today鈥檚 episode is sponsored by N眉 Green Tea]: Rapport and virtuoso humor in group interviews. In Goebel, Z. (ed.), "Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Settings," pp. 33-52. De Gruyter. 

Honors, Awards and Grants Received

  • 2020: $2,300 CLASS Project Completion Grant, 兔子先生 
  • 2017: $6,000 Research Progress Grant, CLASS, 兔子先生 
  • 2016: $10,000 Grant from Hobby Center for Public Policy, 兔子先生 
  • 2016: Runner-up, Ton Vallen Award, Babylon Center for the Study of Superdiversity, Tilburg University, Netherlands. Awarded October 2016. (Article submitted: Zentz, L., 2015. 鈥淟ove鈥� the local, 鈥渦se鈥� the national, 鈥渟tudy鈥� the foreign: Shifting Javanese Language Ecologies in (Post-)Modernity, Postcoloniality, and Globalization. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 24(3): 339鈥�359.) 
  • 2015: New Faculty Research Grant, 兔子先生鈥赌赌赌赌赌�赌赌赌赌赌��

Classes Taught

Graduate level 
  • Bakhtin & the Internet, online course 
  • Socializing the Nation in the Internet Age, online course 
  • Discourse Analysis 
  • Introduction to Applied Linguistics 
  • Language in Postcoloniality and Globalization 

Undergraduate level

  • Bakhtin & the Internet, online course 
  • Socializing the Nation in the Internet Age, online course 
  • Introduction to the Study of Language, face to face and online 
  • Introduction to Sociolinguistics, face to face and online 
  • Language Socialization, face to face and online 
  • Grammar and Usage, face to face and online鈥� 
  • Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Syntax, face to face 

Research Interests

  • Online communication in politics/political organizing 
  • Nationalism, state formation and democracy 
  • Language socialization and identity鈥� 

Current Book Project

  • "Echo Chambers and Epistemological Bubbles: Corporate Media, Neoliberal Governance, and Communicative Flirtation with the End of Democracy"鈥� 

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