Author

Lauren Zentz

Dr. Lauren Zentz is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Affiliate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Houston.

Lauren Zentz is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Houston. Her primary research interests are nationalism, identity, language socialization, politics and activism, and she is currently investigating how these themes play out on the internet in a project titled The Discourses of Internet Political Organization. Within this project, her book  Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity: Building a Movement on Facebook  was published in 2021, and she is currently developing a second monograph titled Echo Chambers and Epistemological Bubbles: Communicative Flirtation with the End of Democracy.

nationalism, identity, language socialization, politics and activism, politics of language use