Clemons, Aris
Aris Clemons
Aris Moreno Clemons is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics specializing in the intersections between language, race, and identity. Her work spans the fields of linguistics, education, anthropology, and Black and Latinx studies with the aim of providing liberatory frames from racial justice. Originally from (all over) the Bay Area in California, she has been steeped in the traditions of anti-racist pedagogies and has dedicated herself to developing and sustaining these practices in her own research and teaching. As such, her research agenda is rooted in social change through an examination of the ways that what appears to be common knowledge is often constructed and ideologically maintained by various social institutions. Overarchingly, Aris questions the linguistic mechanisms-repetitions, stance taking, tropicalizations, etc.-responsible for the (re)construction and maintenance of racializing and marginalizing ideologies.
Publications
- Clemons, A. & Grieser, J. (2023). The Raciolinguistic Intersections of Gender, Sexual Orientation and Social Status. Daedalus.
- Charity Hudley, A., Clemons, A., Villareal, D. (2023). Language Across the Disciplines. Annual Review of Linguistics, 9, 253-272.
- Williamson, T. & Clemons, A. (2023) Illustrating linguistic dexterity in “English Mostly” spaces through reconstructive discourse analysis. English Teaching: Practice & Critique.
- Lawrence, A & Clemons, A. (2023) (Mis)languaging and (Mis)translating Identity: Racialization of Latinidad in the U.S. mediascape. Latino Studies.
- Clemons, A. (2022) Benefits vs Burden: A raciolinguistic analysis of World Language Mission Statements and Testimonios of Bilingualism in the United States. Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics.
- Clemons, A. & Toribio, A. (2021) Racializing Latinx Bilinguals in K-12 Language Learning Classrooms in the United States, “Social environment and Spanish language teaching: Sociolinguistic competence and language use/ Entorno social y enseñanza del español LE/L2: competencia sociolingüística y uso de la lengua”. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching.
- Lawrence, A & Clemons, A. (forthcoming) (Mis)languaging and (Mis)translating Identity: Racialization of Latinidad in the U.S. mediascape. Latino Studies.
- Clemons, A. & Lawrence, A. (2020) Beyond position statements on race: Fostering an ethos of antiracist scholarship in linguistic research (Response to Charity Hudley et al.). Language, 96(4), e254-e267.
- Clemons, A. (2020) New Blacks: Language, DNA, and the construction of the African American/Dominican boundary of difference. [What’s your “street race?” Cartographies and Ontologies of “race” and the Future of Knowledge Production on Inequality, Resistance and Social Justice] Genealogy.
- Toribio, A. & Clemons, A. (2019) Se come la [s] pero a veces son muy fisnos: Observations on coda sibilant elision, retention, and insertion in popular Dominican(-American) Spanish, Dialects from Tropical Islands: Research on Caribbean Spanish in the United States, W. Valentín-Márquez & Melvin González (eds.), Routledge, 71-87.
Publications in Preparation:
- Clemons, A. (In Press) A-Political Linguistics doesn’t exist, and it shouldn’t: A model for a theory of political transparency in linguistics, Oxford Collection on Decolonizing Linguistics, A.Charity Hudley, C. Mallinson, M. Bucholtz (eds.)
- Williamson, T. & Clemons, A. In prep. Illustrating linguistic dexterity in “English Mostly” spaces through reconstructive discourse analysis. English Teaching: Practice & Critique.
- Charity Hudley, A., Clemons, A., Villareal, D. In Prep. Annual Review of Linguistics Volume 9.
- Mantenuto, I. & Clemons, A. Reimagining Introductory Linguistics as Raciolinguistics: Developing a curriculum to recruit undergraduate students in language related fields. Teaching Linguistics.
- Clemons, A. & Grieser, J. In prep. The Raciolinguistic Intersections of Gender, Sexual Orientation and Social Status. Daedalus.
Email: aclemon8@utk.edu