大卫Divita

Professor of Romance 语言s and Literatures; On leave Spring 2025
With 皇冠体育 Since: 2010
  • 专业知识

    专业知识

    大卫Divita, a sociocultural linguist and linguistic anthropologist, specializes in 西班牙语- and 法国-speaking people and places. His interests include the linguistic and semiotic dimensions of aging; the experience of belonging, displacement and long-term multilingualism; and the politics of history and memory—in particular as these phenomena operate among populations with national and affective attachments to contemporary Spain and 法国.

    他的书中, 数不清的故事: Legacies of Authoritarianism among 西班牙语 Labour Migrants in Later Life, was published by the University of Toronto Press in March 2024. 数不清的故事 features a full-length ethnography of a community of aging Spaniards who were born around the time of Spain’s civil war (1936-1939), came of age during its repressive aftermath, migrated to 法国 as young adults in search of economic opportunity. Through detailed analysis of their conversational interactions, Divita shows how history lives among individuals in later life—not as a static domain of facts and figures, but in the narrative forms that animate or haunt their everyday encounters.

    Divita is currently investigating ongoing debates in Spain about the Law of Democratic Memory, which was ratified in 2022 to address the legacies of Francoism. Among other polemics, he is focusing on efforts to “resignify” the Valley of Cuelgamuros, the memorial complex from which Franco was exhumed in 2019.

    Divita has also written about political rhetoric and far-right populism in contemporary Spain; language ideologies and discursive practices that concern domestic service in the United States; and the use of 英语 in 法国 gay-lifestyle media. He has published articles in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 语言 in 社会, Journal of 社会语言学, International Journal of the Sociology of 语言话语 & 社会, Journal of 语言, Culture and 社会, 等.

    Areas of 专业知识

    语言学

    • 西班牙语 and 法国 Linguistics
    • 社会语言学
    • Linguistic Anthropology
    • Applied Linguistics
  • 工作

    工作

    数不清的故事: Legacies of Authoritarianism among 西班牙语 Labour Migrants in Later Life. (2024). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

    Selected Articles and 书 Chapters

    回到西班牙? Return Migration on Stage among Aging Migrants in 法国.” (2024). 在D. Boehm和M.H. Rogozen-Soltar (Eds.), States of Return: Rethinking Migration and Mobility (pp. 42-63). New York: NYU Press.

    Radical-Right Populism in Spain and the Strategy of Chronopolitics.” 语言 in 社会 52.5 (2023): 757–81.

    The 性别ed Semiotics of Far-Right Populism on Instagram: A Case from Spain.” 话语 & 社会 34.1 (2023): 22–53.

    “Memes from Confinement: Disorientation and Hindsight Projection in the Crisis of COVID-19.” 语言, Culture and 社会 4.2 (2022): 162-188.

    “西班牙 有好的 in 1960s Paris: Occupational Narratives from Transnational Migrants in Later Life.” (2021). 在K. gonalalves和H. Kelley-Holmes H. (Eds.), 语言, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar 工作ers and Blue-Collar 工作places (pp. 91-106). New York: Routledge.

    “Masculine Embodiment among Sexual Minorities in a Women’s Prison.” Australian Social 工作, 74.2 (2021): 172-185. (主要作者:A. Smoyer)

    “Domestic 西班牙语 Handbooks: 语言 and Labor in the American 首页.” International Journal of the Sociology of 语言 262 (2020): 17-37.

    “回忆 Bidonvilles of Paris: Historicity and Authority Among Transnational Migrants in Later Life.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 29.1 (2019): 50-68.

    “The Life of a Loanword: A Case Study of 出来吧 in the 法国 Magazine Tetu (1995-2015).” & 6 (2019). (作者:W. 柯蒂斯.)

    “话语s of (Be)longing: Later Life and the Politics of Nostalgia.” (2019). 在R. 广场(Ed.), 话语s of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces (pp. 64-82). New York: Routledge.

    “Talk about the Past.” Texas Linguistic Forum 61 (2018): 1-8.

    从巴黎到 普韦布洛 and Back: (Re-)Emigration and the Modernist Chronotope in Cultural Performance.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 24.1 (2014): 1-18.

    “Multilingualism and Later Life: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Age and Aging.” Journal of Aging Studies 30 (2014): 94-103.

    “语言 Ideologies across Time: Household 西班牙语 Handbooks from 1959 to 2012.” Critical 话语 Studies 11.2 (2014): 194-210.

    “Multilingualism and the Lifespan: Case Studies from a 语言 Course for 西班牙语 Seniors in Saint-Denis, 法国.” International Journal of Multilingualism 11.1 (2014): 1-22.

    “Online in Later Life: Age as a Chronological Fact and a Dynamic Social Category in an Internet Class for Retirees.” Journal of 社会语言学 16.5 (2012): 585-612.

  • 教育

    教育

    Ph.D.
    University of California, Berkeley

    B.A.
    Columbia University

    流利的语言:

    • 法国
    • 西班牙语
    • 英语

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Multilingual Spain: Power, Identity, Politics
    • 语言 & 性别
    • Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
    • Spanglish in Context: Bilingualism in the U.S.
    • 西班牙语 Phonetics and Phonology
    • Telling Stories: Form and Function of Narrative in Everyday Life
    • 语言 and Power in the Francophone World
  • 奖 & 荣誉

    奖 & 荣誉

    Hirsch Research Initiation Grant. “Manufacturing memory: Legacies of an authoritarian past in contemporary Spain.” 2022-2023.

    Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Universidad de Murcia (Spain), 2018年秋季.