Marcyliena Morgan
Associate Professor
Rm.300H McClatchy Hall
(650) 723-5448
mmorgan2@stanford.edu
Professor Morgan's Homepage
Hiphop Archive @ Stanford Homepage
Office hours: By appointment
Marcyliena Morgan's research focuses on youth, gender, language, culture and identity, sociolinguistics, discourse and interaction. Professor Morgan teaches courses on hiphop, discourse, language and identity, race, class and gender, the ethnography of communications, and representation in the media. She is the author of, Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (2002) and Editor of Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations (1994). Her other publications include articles and chapters on gender and women's speech, language ideology, discourse and interaction among Caribbean women in London and Jamaica, urban youth language and interaction, hip hop culture, and language education planning and policy.
Professor Morgan is the Executive Director of Stanford's Hiphop Archive. She founded the Hiphop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University while on the faculty in African American Studies. She is currently completing a book on hiphop culture entitled The Real Hiphop - Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the Underground .