Dr. Chantelle Warner completed her B.A. (with distinction) at Ball State University and she has also studied in Münster and Frankfurt. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she specialized in 20th- and 21st-century German literature, autobiographical theory, linguistic and discourse analytic approaches to literature, and applied linguistics.
Dr. Warner’s teaching and research interests cross the fields of literary and linguistic study. Her scholarly work focuses on language, and in particular literary language, as a site of struggle for social power and the investigation of how meanings and access to certain practices are regulated and controlled. In her current book project, she looks at the abundance of autobiographically-based literary works appearing in German-speaking countries during the latter part of the twentieth century in relation to issues of recognition and representation and examines the various textual effects that drive the production and reception of these works. Her publications include articles on the use of play in foreign language computer-mediated communication and the conceptualization of language study in the U.S., as well as a forthcoming article on the use of deictic language in Verena Stefan’s feminist confession Häutungen in order to create effects of immediacy.
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