Stephanie V. Love

  • Assistant Professor

Stephanie V. Love received a Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2022. From 2022-23, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, participating in the interdisciplinary seminar “Repairing the Past.” Her first book project, “Streets of Grievance: Everyday Poetics and Postcolonial Politics in Urban Algeria,” explores the complex ways that violent pasts (both colonial and postcolonial) get reanimated in ordinary urban speech, landscapes, and memory practices. It asks: How can a people repair the past—characterized by 132 years of violent settler colonialism and six decades of postcolonial civil strife—when the past is not dead? This project examines the “afterlives” of violence through the social work of anticolonial martyrs, abandoned cemeteries, colonial placenames that will not die, and the vital presence of other sites of ‘dead’ colonialism in contemporary Algerian society. This lens sheds light on how contemporary city dwellers speak about the past to make claims on the future and how they talk to each other across entrenched, seemingly unbridgeable political divides. The book argues that everyday urban poetics is central to this emergent social action. It allows people to make novel connections by playing with urban forms in their ordinary speech, shaping collective sentiments with political potential. Dr. Love is also dedicated to rethinking higher education in the post-pandemic world and has coordinated several pedagogical initiatives at CUNY, including the STEM Pedagogy Institute, Carnegie Educational Technology Fellowship, and the Heritage Arabic eBook project at the Center for Integrated Language Communities.

Degrees and Education

Ph.D. Anthropology, Linguistic and Cultural The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY

Research Description

Urban anthropology, postcolonialism, semiotics, history/memory, materiality, migration, language politics, poetics, spatiotemporal imaginaries (chronotopes), the dead/ afterlives, revolution, the Middle East and North Africa, exile, the Mediterranean

Publications

Love, Stephanie V. 2023. Echoes of ‘Dead’ Colonialism: The Voices and Materiality of a (Post)colonial Algeria­n Newspaper. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 33(1): 72-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12392

Love, Stephanie V. 2021. The Poetics of Grievance: Taxi-drivers, Vernacular Placenames, and the Paradoxes of Postcoloniality in Oran, Algeria. City & Society 33(3): 422-443.  https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ciso.12412

Love, Stephanie V. 2021. “Are we not of interest to each other?” A pedagogy of presence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anthropology Now! 13(2): 65-76. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19428200.2021.1973330

Love, Stephanie V. & L. Wu. 2020. Are We in the Same Boat? Ethnographic Lessons of Sheltering in Place from International Seafarers and Algerian Harraga in the Age of Global  Pandemic. Anthropology Now! April 2020 issue. https://anthronow.com/press-watch/are-we-in-the-same-boat-ethnographic-lessons-of-sheltering-in-place-from-international-seafarers-and-algerian-harraga-in-the-age-of-global-pandemic

Love, Stephanie V. 2019. Decolonizing the Church/Decolonizing Language: Postcolonial Christianity, Language Ideologies, and the Morality of Teaching Vernacular Arabic (Darija) in Algeria. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education,18(1): 25-38. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15348458.2019.1575740

Love, Stephanie V. 2016. ‘Broken Arabic’ and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of ‘Native’ and ‘Heritage’ Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language and Literature, 9(2): 78-93. https://raco.cat/index.php/Bellaterra/article/view/310698 

Love, Stephanie V. 2016. An Educated Identity: The School as a Modernist Chronotope in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. In G. R. Bullaro and S. Love (eds.), The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins (pp. 71-97). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bullaro, Grace R. & Stephanie V. Love. 2016. Beyond the Margins: Ferrante Fever and Italian Female Writing. In G. R. Bullaro and S. Love (eds.), The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins (pp. 1-12). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137590626

Bullaro, Grace R. & Stephanie V. Love 2016. The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137590626

Love, Stephanie V. & Dora Kotai. 2015. The Invisible Learners in the Classroom: Macro-Level Politics and Micro-Level Experiences of LESLLA in Italy. In M. Santos & A. Whiteside, Proceedings from the 9th annual LESLLA (low educated second language and literacy acquisition) symposium. City College of San Francisco.

Love, Stephanie V. 2014. Mother Tongue: Identity in the Translingual and Transnational Narratives of Carmine Abate and Cristina Ali Farah. In G. R. Bullaro & E. Banelli (Eds.), Shifting and Shaping a National Identity in a Pluricultural Society: Transnational Writers in Italy Today (pp. 107-127). Leicester, UK: Troubador Italian Studies Series. https://www.amazon.com/Shifting-Shaping-National-Identity-Pluriculturalism/dp/1783063785

Love, Stephanie V. 2014. Language Testing, ‘Integration’ and Subtractive Multilingualism in Italy: Challenges for Adult Immigrant Second Language and Literacy Education. Current Issues in Language Planning, 15(3/4). Special issue. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14664208.2014.947017

Love, Stephanie V. & Manka Varghese. 2012. The Historical and Contemporary Role of Race, Language, and Schooling in Italy’s Immigrant Policies: Public Discourses and Pedagogies. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 14(2). Special Issue: Challenging Anti-Immigration Discourses in School and Community Contexts. (with M. Varghese). https://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/491