Miguel Samano is a Ph.D. candidate in English with research interests in Relational Ethnic Studies, Chicanx and Latinx studies, Asian American Studies, Social Science History, and Sociocultural Linguistics. Their dissertation, "Talk's Stories: Sociocultural Linguistics and Latinx and Asian American Narrative Forms," historicizes post-1965 Latinx and Asian American literary narrative's interest in the formal patterning of stranger-to-stranger talk over and against that of sociocultural linguistics, an interdisciplinary formation in the social sciences. They previously co-coordinated the Queer of Color Critique and the Transnational Ethnic Studies working groups for the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures and the Townsend Center, respectively; currently, they coordinate the Center for Race and Gender's Relational Latinx and Asian American Studies working group.
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English, UC Berkeley
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