Anna De Fina

Anna De Fina is Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics and Chair of the Italian Department at Georgetown University, and Affiliated Faculty with the Linguistics Department. Her interests focus on narrative, discourse and identity, immigrant and transnational communities and Italian American studies. She has published widely on a variety of topics in Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis, from the discourse construction of identities to the use of media among transnational communities, from narratives in immigrant discourse to the role of ethnography in sociolinguistic research. Among her publications are the volumes Analyzing Narrative: Discourse and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2012) co-authored with Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Identity in Narrative (2003, John Benjamins), and the edited collections Handbook of Narrative Analysis (2015, Wiley Blackwell), with Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Discourse and Identity (2006, Cambridge University Press), with D. Schiffrin and M. Bamberg. 

Narrative, Identity, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Super-Diversity, Migrant Communities