Research Interests | Education | Publications | Professional Affiliations | Courses Taught

Research Interests

French Sociolinguistics

Second Language Acquisition

Pragmatics and Second Language Pedagogy

Language & Identity

Language Ideologies & Critical Linguistics

Education

Ph.D., Romance Linguistics, Cornell University, 2002

M.A., Romance Linguistics, Cornell University, 1998

B.A., Foreign Languages (Summa Cum Laude), Scripps College, 1993

Recent Publications

Doran, M. (forthcoming). Sociolinguistic and Ethnographic Research on Language Variation in France. In Ayoun, D. (Ed.), French Applied Linguistics, Vol. 2. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Alternative French, Alternative Identities: Situating Language in la Banlieue. (forthcoming). Contemporary French & Francophone Studies (Sites). “Situating French,” Volume 11, no. 3-4. Fall/Winter 2007. Roger Célestin, Eliane DalMolin, eds. David Ellison, guest co-editor.

Negotiating Between Bourge and Racaille: ‘Verlan’ as Youth Identity Practice in Suburban Paris. (2004). In A. Pavlenko & A. Blackledge (Eds.), Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts, (pp. 93-124). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

A Life of Saint John in Old French. (1999). Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics, 17, 1-9.

Alba-Salas, J., Doran, M., & Mittelberg, I. (1999) Three Excerpts from Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d’Amours (Mid 13th Century). Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics, 17, 72-87.

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)

American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

International Society for Language Studies (ISLS)

Courses Taught

French 202: Intermediate French Grammar & Composition

French 310: French Press

Applied Linguistics 597: Power, Politics and Language Ideologies

French 597: French Sociolinguistics

French 440/581: Teaching of Foreign Languages

Linguistics 548: Sociolinguistics