CURRICULUM VITAE ANTHONY K. WEBSTER Department of Anthropology University of Texas at Austin SAC 4.102 2201 Speedway Stop C3200 Austin TX 78712 EDUCATION 2004 Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Dissertation: Navajo Poetry, Linguistic Ideology, and Identity: The Case of an Emergent Literary Tradition. Chairs: Joel F. Sherzer and Pauline Turner Strong 1997 M.A. in Anthropology, minor in Linguistics, New Mexico State University. MA Thesis: Sam Kenoi’s Coyote Stories: An Ethnopoetic analysis of some Chiricahua Apache narratives. Chair: Scott Rushforth 1993 B.A. (with Distinction) in Anthropology, minors in English Literature and Political Science at Purdue University. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013- University of Texas at Austin. Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology. 2010-13 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology. 2005-10 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology. 2004-05 Wesleyan University, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2004 Idaho State University, Visiting Assistant Professor. 2001-02 University of Massachusetts Boston, Lecturer. 1999 New Mexico State University, Summer Term College Instructor. 1 1998 New Mexico State University, Summer Term College Instructor. PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS Books: 2009 Explorations in Navajo poetry and poetics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Guest Editor, Refereed Journal: To appear Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice: On the Legacy of Dell Hymes. Special Issue Journal of Folklore Research. (co-editor with Paul V. Kroskrity). (2013) 2012 Ordeals of Language: Essays in Honor of Ellen B. Basso. Special Issue Journal of Anthropological Research. (co-editor with Juan Luis Rodriguez). 68(3). 305-422. 2011 American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places. Special Issue American Indian Culture & Research Journal. (co-editor with Leighton C. Peterson). 35(2): 1-182. Articles in Peer-Reviewed Professional Journals: Accepted “A Note on Albert Gatschet’s Lipan Apache Elicitations.” International Journal of American Linguistics. To appear “Introducing Ethnopoetics: Hymes’s Legacy.” (with Paul V. Kroskrity) Article for Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice: On the Legacy of Dell Hymes. Special Issue Journal of Folklore Research. (co-editor with Paul V. Kroskrity). (2013) To appear “The validity of Navajo is in its sounds:” On Hymes, Navajo Poetry, Punning, and the Recognition of Voice. Article for Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice: On the Legacy of Dell Hymes. Special Issue Journal of Folklore Research. (co-editor with Paul V. Kroskrity). (2013) 2013 Speech Play and Language Ideologies in Navajo Terminology Development. (with Leighton C. Peterson) Pragmatics. 23(1): 93-116. 2012 Who reads Navajo poetry and what are they reading? Exploring the semiotic functions of contemporary written Navajo. Social Semiotics. 2 22(4):375-408. 2012 “Don’t Talk About It”: Navajo poets and their ordeals of language. Journal of Anthropological Research. 68(3): 399-414. 2012 Ordeals of Language: Essays in Honor of Ellen B. Basso. (with Juan Luis Rodriguez) Journal of Anthropological Research. 68(3). 305-314. 2012 Blackhorse Mitchell’s ‘Beauty of Navajoland’: Bivalency, dooajinída, and the work of contemporary Navajo poetry. Semiotica. 189(1/4): 97- 131. 2011 “We don’t know what we become:” Navajo ethnopoetics and expressive features in a poem by Rex Lee Jim. (with Blackhorse Mitchell) Anthropological Linguistics. 53(3): 259-286. 2011 Mai ‘íńtin hułghułná’a/ ‘Ałk’id osh, jiní: Poetic Devices in Chiricahua Apache and Navajo Coyote Narratives Compared. Journal of the Southwest. 53(3-4): 323-378. 2011 “Please Read Loose:” Intimate Grammars and Unexpected Languages in Contemporary Navajo Literature. Special Issue: American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places. (edited by Leighton C. Peterson and Anthony K. Webster). American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 35(2): 61-86. 2011 Introduction: American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places. (with Leighton C. Peterson). Special Issue: American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places. (edited by Leighton C. Peterson and Anthony K. Webster). American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 35(2): 1-18. 2010 On Intimate Grammars, with examples from Navajo English, Navlish, and Navajo. Journal of Anthropological Research. 66(2): 187-208. 2010 “Tséyi’ First, Because Navajo Language Was Here Before Contact:” On Intercultural Performances, Metasemiotic Stereotypes, and the Dynamics of Place. Semiotica. 181(1/4):149-178. 2010 A Note on Navajo Interlingual Puns. International Journal of American Linguistics. 76 (2): 289-298. 2010 Imagining Navajo in the Boarding School: Laura Tohe’s No Parole Today and the Intimacy of Language Ideologies. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 20(1): 39-62. 3 2010 “Still, she didn’t see what I was trying to say”: Towards a History of Framing Navajo English in Navajo Poetry. World Englishes. 29(1): 75-96. 2009 The Poetics and Politics of Navajo Ideophony in Contemporary Navajo Poetry. Language & Communication. 29(2): 133-151. 2008 “Plaza’góó and before he can respond...”: Language Ideology, Bilingual Navajo, and Navajo Poetry. Pragmatics. 18(3): 511-541. 2008 Running Again, Roasting Again, Touching Again: On repetition, heightened affective expressivity and the utility of linguaculture in Navajo and beyond. Journal of American Folklore. 121(482): 441-472. 2008 “To give an imagination to the listeners:” The neglected poetics of Navajo ideophony. Semiotica. 171 (1/4):343-365. 2008 A Note on Plains Apache Warpath Vocabulary. International Journal of American Linguistics. 74(2): 257-261. 2008 “To all the Former Cats and Stomps of the Navajo Nation:” Performance, the individual, and cultural poetic traditions. Language in Society. 37(1): 61-89. 2007 Reading William Bittle and Charles Brant: On ethnographic representations of “contemporary” Plains Apache. Plains Anthropologist. 52(203): 301-315. 2007 Lipan Apache Place Names of Augustina Zuazua: Some Structural and Discursive Features. Names: A Journal of Onomastics. 55(2): 103-122. 2006 On Speaking to him (Coyote): The Discourse Functions of the yi-/bi- alternation in some Chiricahua Apache Narratives. Southwest Journal of Linguistics. 25(2): 143-160. 2006 ‘Ałk’id ii Jooldlosh, Jiní: Poetic Devices in Navajo Oral and Written Poetry. Anthropological Linguistics. 48 (3): 233-265. 2006 From Hóyéé to Hajinei: On some implications of feelingful iconicity and orthography in Navajo poetry. Pragmatics. 16(4): 535-549. 2006 Keeping the Word: On Orality and Literacy (with a sideways glance at Navajo). Oral Tradition. 21(2): 295-324. 2006 The Mouse that Sucked: On “Translating” a Navajo Poem. Studies in American Indian Literature. 18(1): 37-49. 4 2004 Coyote Poems: Navajo Poetry, Intertextuality, and Language Choice. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 28(4): 69-91. 1999 Lisandro Mendez’s ‘Coyote and Deer’: On Reciprocity, Narrative Structures and Interaction. American Indian Quarterly. 23(1): 1-24. 1999 Sam Kenoi’s Coyote Stories: Rhetoric and Poetics in some Chiricahua Narratives. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 23(1): 137- 163. 1998 ‘One did not say just anything’: Chiricahua war-path language as linguistic ideology. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers. 83: 102-106. Chapters in Professional Books: 2012 John Watchman’s Ma’ii and Skunk. (with Blackhorse Mitchell). In Inside Dazzling Mountains: Southwest Native Verbal Art (edited by David Kozak). University of Nebraska Press. 150-172. 2012 Samuel E. Kenoi’s Portraits of White Men. In Inside Dazzling Mountains: Southwest Native Verbal Art (edited by David Kozak). University of Nebraska Press. 175-193. 2012 “To Give an Imagination to the Listener:” Replicating Proper Ways of Speaking In and Through Contemporary Navajo Poetry. In Telling Stories in the Face of Danger: Language Renewal in Native American Communities. (ed. Paul Kroskrity) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 205-227. 2012 Southern Athapaskan Quotative Evidentials: A Discursive Areal Typology. From the Land of the Ever Winter to the American Southwest: Athapaskan Migrations, Mobility, and Ethnogenesis. (ed. Deni J. Seymour). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 286-302. 2012 Navajo poetry. (with Esther G. Belin). Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press. 923-924. 2009 Amerindian Aesthetics. In Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd Edition. (edited by Stephen Davies, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker and Kathleen Higgins). Malden, MA: Blackwell. 142-145. 5 Proceedings and Working Papers (editorially reviewed) 2011 How a television is like a urinating donkey and other things I learned studying Navajo poetics: Bilingual Navajo, Puns and Ideophony. Proceedings of the First Biennial Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STILLA 2008). (eds. Serafín M. Coronel Molina and John H. McDowell). 35-47. 2011 Losing Control in a Navajo Poem: On the ethnopoetics of an expressive feature in a poem by Rex Lee Jim. (with Blackhorse Mitchell) Working Papers in Athabaskan Linguistics. (eds. Siri Tuttle and Ogla Lovick). University of Alaska Working Papers in Linguistics, No. 9: 1-14. 2008 [v] and [b] in Lipan Apache: An Ethnohistorical Approach to a Phonological Variation. Working Papers in Athabaskan Linguistics. University of Alaska Working Papers in Linguistics, No. 7. 143-155. 2008 Navajo Ideophony: Some Comparative Preliminaries. Working Papers in Athabaskan Linguistics.