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Marcia E. Farr

Marcia Elizabeth Farr (born 1944) is an American sociolinguist and ethnographer; she is an Emerita Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago,[1] as well as an Emerita Professor of Education and English at the Ohio State University.[2]

Marcia E. Farr
Born (1944-03-25) March 25, 1944 (age 80)
Berkeley, California, US
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineSociolinguistics
Institutions

Biography edit

Farr was born in Berkeley, California on March 25, 1944. Relocating to Ohio later that year, she attended Upper Arlington schools, graduating from its high school in 1961, and from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1965 with a BA in English.[3][4] She then moved to Washington, D.C. and taught high school English in Prince Georges County, Maryland, and subsequently received an MA in Linguistics from American University. Farr continued her education, receiving a PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1976, partially supported by National Science Foundation fellowships. That year she started working at the U.S. National Institute of Education directing its program on writing research. In 1982 Farr joined the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she remained for twenty years, retiring as an emerita professor. During that period she founded and edited two academic book series: Advances in Writing Research,[5] 1982–92, and Written Language, 1992–2000.[2] She then taught at the Ohio State University for another ten years, retiring as an emerita professor from that institution as well, in 2012.

Work edit

As a sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist, Farr studies oral and written language use in social and cultural context, as well as how these various local ways of using language and literacy affect the teaching and learning of academic literacy. Her research has been funded by grants from the Spencer Foundation,[6][7][8][9] the US National Science Foundation, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as by the US Census Bureau.[10] In the early 1990s Farr began a long-term ethnographic study of language and culture among a transnational social network of Mexican families in Chicago and in their village-of-origin in Michoacán, Mexico.[11] A pair of edited books explore language and/or literacy practices in a variety of Chicago communities, including African American, African, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, "White" working and middle class, Swedish, Mexican, and Puerto Rican.[12][13] A third edited book (with Lisya Seloni and Juyoung Song), Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy, and Culture, explores the implications of ethnolinguistic diversity for education.[14]

Selected publications edit

Whiteman, M. F. (ed.). 1980. Vernacular Black English and education: Reactions to Ann Arbor. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics.

Whiteman, M. F. (ed.). 1981. Variation in writing: Functional and linguistic cultural differences. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Farr, M. (ed.). 1985. Advances in writing research: Children's early writing development. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Farr, M. 1994. Biliteracy in the home: Practices among mexicano families in Chicago, in D. Spener (ed.), Adult biliteracy in the United States. McHenry, IL and Washington, D.C.: Delta Systems and Center for Applied Linguistics.

Farr, M. and Nardini, G. 1996. Essayist literacy and sociolinguistic difference, in E. White, W. Lutz, and S. Kamusikiri (eds.), The politics and policies of assessment in writing. New York: Modern Language Association.

Farr, M. (ed.). 2004. Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and literacy in the city's neighborhoods. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Farr, M. (ed.). 2005. Latino language and literacy in ethnolinguistic Chicago. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Farr, M. and Dominguez, E. 2005. Mexicanos in Chicago: Language ideology and identity. In A.C. Zentella (ed.), Building on strength: Language and literacy in Latino families and communities. New York: Teachers College Press.

Farr, M. 2006. Rancheros in Chicagoacán: Language and identity in a transnational community. Austin: University of Texas Press. A Spanish translation was published by el Colegio de Michoacán in 2011.

Farr, M. 2010. Literacy ideologies: Local practices and cultural definitions, in J. Kalman and B. Street (eds.), Lectura, escritura y matemáticas como prácticas sociales: diálogos con América Latina. Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno Editores.

References edit

  1. ^ "UIC Directory: Marcia E Farr". University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  2. ^ a b "Marcia Farr". Ohio State Education and Human Ecology. 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  3. ^ "Class of 1965" (PDF). Ohio Wesleyan University.
  4. ^ "Marcia Farr, Ph.D." Ohio State University. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  5. ^ Farr, Marcia (1985). Advances in Writing Research, Volume One: Children's Early Writing Development. Writing Research: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into the Nature of Writing Series. Ablex Publishing Corporation. ISBN 978-0-89391-179-9.
  6. ^ "Language, Literacy and Gender: Oral Traditions and Literacy Practices among Mexican Immigrant Families". The Spencer Foundation. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  7. ^ "Spencer Mentor Network Program". The Spencer Foundation. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  8. ^ "Rancheros in Chicagoacan: Culture and Identity within a Mexican Transnational Community". The Spencer Foundation. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  9. ^ "Parents Write their Worlds: A Parent Involvement Program Bridging Urban Schools and Families". The Spencer Foundation. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  10. ^ "Sociolinguistic Analysis of Mexican-American Patterns of Non-Response to Census Questionnaires". The United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  11. ^ Farr, Marcia (2006). Rancheros in Chicagoacán: Language and Identity in a Transnational Community. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71483-0.
  12. ^ Farr, Marcia (2005). Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-62995-3.
  13. ^ Farr, Marcia (2005). Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 978-0-8058-4347-7.
  14. ^ Farr, Marcia; Seloni, Lisya; Song, Juyoung (2009). Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy and Culture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-18370-7.
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