Dr. Wendy Klein
Dr. Wendy L. Klein
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Title: Associate Professor |
Education:
Ph.D. in Anthropology; University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
M.A. in East Asian Studies; Stanford University, 1990
B.A. in Religion; Middlebury College, 1987
Teaching/Research Interests:
My research on language, culture, and social interaction draws from interdisciplinary perspectives on human sociality to analyze how we construct meaning within and across communicative contexts. Research projects include: language socialization and the semiotics of belonging among Punjabi Sikh youth; narrative and religious identification in Punjabi Sikh families; and bilingual practices of youth with autism in Japanese immigrant families in the U.S. The courses I teach take a social justice approach toward investigating a range of issues situated at the intersection of language and culture.
Geographic areas: Japan, N. India, United States. Methodological approaches: language socialization, ethnography, conversation analysis, discourse and narrative analysis.
Courses Taught:
LING/ANTH 170: Introduction to Linguistics
ANTH 412: Culture and Communication
LING/ANTH 413: Language and Culture
ANTH 418: Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
LING 425/ANTH 421: Education Across Cultures
LING 472: Language and Social Justice
LING 477: Language Socialization
ANTH 510: Proseminar
LING 533/ANTH 530: Ethnography of Communication
LING 540: Sociolinguistics
Selected Publications
2024. Autism and bilingual socialization: parents’ perspectives and youth language practices in three bilingual families. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1–16.
2021. Managing trouble spots in conversation: Other-initiated repair elicitations produced by a bilingual youth with autism. Pragmatics 31(2): 225-249.
2020. Shaping Sikh youth subjectivities in a US Gurdwara: The discursive socialization of religious heritage in Sikh history classes. In Matthew Burdelski and Kathryn Howard (Eds.), Language Socialization in Classrooms, pp. 49 – 70. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2018. Book Review: Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers by David F. Lancy. American Anthropologist, 120 (3): 623-624.
2015. Responding to Bullying: Language Socialization and Religious Identification in Classes for Sikh Youth. Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 14 (1):19-35.
2013 Heritage Language Socialization and Language Ideologies in a Sikh Education Program. Heritage Language Journal, 10 (1): 36-50.
2013 Housework: Collaboration and Conflict (with Carolina Izquierdo). In E. Ochs & T. Kremer-Sadlik (eds.), Fast Forward Family: Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle Class America, pp. 94-111. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also appeared in The Atlantic online.
2013 Children and Chores in Working Families (with Marjorie Harness Goodwin). In E. Ochs & T. Kremer-Sadlik (eds.), Fast Forward Family: Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle Class America. pp. 111-130. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
2010 Interactional modalities within the division of household labor: an ethnographic study among Italian and U.S. families. (with Francesco Arcidiacono, Carolina Izquierdo, and Thomas N. Bradbury. Rivista di psicolinguistica applicata. (Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics), Vol X(1-2):85-105.
2010 Children and Chores: A Mixed-Methods Study of Children’s Household Work in Los Angeles Families (with Anthony P. Graesch and Carolina Izquierdo). Anthropology of Work Review, 30(3) December: 98-109.
2010 Indian American Family Life. In Huping Ling and Allan W. Austin (eds.), Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
2008. Turban Narratives: Discourses of Identity and Difference among Punjabi Sikh Families in Los Angeles. In A. Reyes & A. Lo (Eds.) Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2007. Klein, Wendy, Izquierdo, Carolina, and Thomas N. Bradbury. Working relationships: Communicative patterns and strategies among couples in everyday life. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 4:29-47.
Professional Activities, Awards, & Affiliations:
- CSULB CLA Research & Creative Activities (RSCA) (2015-2022).
- UCLA Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2007-2009).
- UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship (2006-2007).
- Member of the American Anthropological Association, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, The Council on Anthropology and Education, The International Pragmatics Association, and the Society for Psychological Anthropology.