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Angela Reyes is Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), and Doctoral Faculty in the Program in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches courses on English linguistic structures and histories, discourse theory and analysis, and linguistic and semiotic anthropology. She is a Faculty Advisory Board Member of the Asian American Studies Program and Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Hunter College.
Reyes works on theories of semiotics, racialization, and coloniality. Her research examines historical and contemporary formations of language and personhood in the U.S. and the Philippines. She has conducted three main ethnographic studies: a four-year study of Southeast Asian American teenagers in an after-school videomaking project at an Asian American community arts organization in Philadelphia; a one-year study of Korean American fifth graders in an Asian American "cram school" in New York City; and a two-year study of Filipino college students and professors at a private university in Manila. In this most recent work in the Philippines, Reyes examines conceptions of mixed race and mixed language that link elite social figures to elite linguistic registers. She explores how anxieties and aspirations regarding modernity, nation, class, race, and language are traceable through the circulation of elite formations across colonial histories, college campuses, and social media.
Reyes is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Advanced Research Collaborative Distinguished Fellowship/CUNY Graduate Center (2016), Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship/National Academy of Education (2009-2010), Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2006-2007), and Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities/National Research Council (2002-2003).
