Madeline M. Maxwell

CURRICULUM VITAE

Office Address

The University of Texas at Austin
The Department of Communication Studies
Campus mail code: A1105
Austin, TX 78712
(512) 471 1954
E-Mail: mmaxwell@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu

Key Moments in Education

Ph. D., December, 1980
The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
Specialization: Linguistics.
My dissertation research was derived from a project begun in Ursula Bellugi's laboratory at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.

A.B. (Bachelor of Arts), May, 1970
Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Major: English

Selected Honors and Awards

• Joe W. Neal Centennial Fellow in International Communication, 1996
• The Language of Conflict Resolution: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate. Faculty Research Assignment. University Research Institute, 1994.
• College of Communication Research Award, 1991.

Current Position

University of Texas

Professor of Speech Communication
I joined the department as an assistant professor in 1980, was promoted to associate professor, 1985, to full professor, 1994. Before that, I taught Linguistics and Deafness at The Pennsylvania State University and English at the University of Arizona and the Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind. I also used to work as a sign language interpreter. Click here for a link to my high school!

Selected Publications

• The Social Construction of Incompetence, in press, Lawrence Erlbaum. (co-editors Judith Duchan & Dana Kovarsky)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals
 
• Language codes and sense-making among deaf schoolchildren. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (1996).
• Values conflict in a diagnostic team. Language Interaction in Clinical and Educational Settings (1994) (co-author Dana Kovarsky).
• Speech and identity in the deaf narrative. Text (1990) (co-author Pamela Kraemer).
• Simultaneous communication: The state of the art and proposals for change. Sign Language Studies (1990).
• Visual-centered narratives of the deaf. Linguistics and Education (1990).
• The authenticity of ethnographic research. Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders (1990).
• A methodological study of illocutionary coding in adult-child interaction. Journal of Pragmatics (1986) (co-authors Anne van Kleeck & Cheryl Gunter).
• Black Sign Language and school integration in Texas. Language in Society (1986) (co-author Sybil Smith-Todd).

Monographs
 
• Language interaction in clinical and educational settings (1994) (co-editors Dana Kovarsky and Jack Damico)
• Ethnography in Education of the Deaf (ed.) Special issue of Sign Language Studies (1985).

Selected Recent Conference Presentations

• Joint meetings of the 7th UNM Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society: Spanish and Portuguese in Contact with Other Languages & 16th Conference on Spanish in the United States, Albuquerque, February 1998. When the interpreter is a conversational partner.
• Western Communication Association, Denver, February 1998. Isolate and communal deaf identities. (co-author Diana Poeppelmeyer)
• National Communication Association, Chicago, November 1997. Recent developments in telephone interaction. (co-participants Elizabeth Keating, Emmanuel Schegloff, Hanneke Houtkoop)
• International Communication Association, Chicago, May 1997. In between languages:

Managing the dual role of conversational partner and translator.
• International Pragmatics Association, Mexico City, July 1996. Deaf/hearing conversations: is ethnicity the issue? (co-author Laura Polich)
• Applied Linguistics Association, Chicago, March 1996. Understanding sign language interpretation and transliteration.
• Western Speech Communication Association, Pasadena, CA, (February 1996). Making sense of sign language interpretation: an application of communication accommodation theory.
• Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, November 1995. An ethnography of speaking of local city and county public meetings.
• Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, November 1995. Chains of collocational cohesion in metaphors of violence in a community of practice..
• International Communication Association, Albuquerque, May 1995. Interactive structures in events involving deaf persons.
• 5th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Brisbane, Australia, July 1994. The UN-cooperative principle.
• International Communication Association, Sydney, Australia, July, 1994. The manipulation of linguistic register in conflict talk.

Courses

Language and Culture
• Writing the Ethnography of Communication, SPE 384K (graduate). Fall 1996.
• Language and Communication, SPE-CSD 314L (undergraduate). Every fall.
• Reading the Ethnography of Communication, SPE 384K (graduate). Fall 1997.
• Language, Culture, & Communication, SPE 386P (graduate). Spring 1997.

Conflict Talk
• Internship in Conflict Resolution, SPE 371K (undergraduate). Fall 1996 & Spring 1997
• Seminar on Conflict Talk, SPE 386P (graduate). Summer 1996.
• Conflict Mediation, SPE 367 (undergraduate). Spring 1996.

Deafness
• Language and Deafness, CSD 395C (graduate). Spring 1997.
• Practicum in Evaluation of Deaf Individuals' Communication (graduate). Spring 1997.
• Literacy and Deafness, CSD 395H (graduate). Spring 1996.

Consulting

• Mediation and Conflict Resolution Services and Training
• Facilitation
• Communication Assessment and Instruction