Angela Reyes

Angela Reyes is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the English department at Hunter College, The City University of New York. Dr. Reyes received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.

Dr. Reyes’ primary research areas are in linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, and Asian American studies. Examining the language practices of Asian Americans and other racial minorities, her current work is interested in the ways in which links between dialects and ethnic groups become established, disrupted, and appropriated in discursive interaction.

Her book, Language, Identity, and Stereotype among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian (2007, Lawrence Erlbaum), is an extension of her award-winning dissertation, which was a four-year ethnographic and discourse analytic study examining how Southeast Asian refugee youth formed their identities in relation to circulating stereotypes. Her work has appeared in several academic journals, including the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Discourse Studies, and a Special Issue of Pragmatics that she also co-edited.

Interaction and Identity in a New York Asian Cram School

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Typically viewed as a staple of childhood life in East Asia, cram schools are private educational institutions offering additional academic instruction during non-school hours. Over the past few decades, hundreds if not thousands of Asian American-run cram schools have been established throughout the United States, proliferating across urban areas particularly in Asian American enclaves. Despite this recent boom of Asian American cram schools, there has been very little research that examines how these educational sites affect the academic and identity development of youth.

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