Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Biographic Data
| ID | 3833299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erika |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffmann-Dilloway |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMANN-DILLOWAY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | erika hoffmann-dilloway is Professor of Anthropology at Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Did We Meet: Experiments with Ethnographic Comics in Nepal
This comic-format article details a 2024 workshop that the authors held in Nepal, in which Nepali, US, and Chinese writers and artists teamed up to create collaborative, nonfiction, research-based comics. Participants' research focused on "everyday life" in the Nepali city of Patan and was grounded in open-ended ethnographic interviews that each pair conducted with locals. This article draws on the events and output of the workshop to consider th…
Sign Languages
Ethnographic studies of sign languages illuminate and complicate the ways in which the category of sign language is differentiated from other categories, including the categories of language and non-language, different types of sign languages, and signed versus spoken languages. These studies also highlight how sign language ideologies emerge in particular contexts, methods, and interpretations of data. An ethics of nonnormative communication is …
Ordering burgers, reordering relations: Gestural interactions between hearing and d/Deaf Nepalis
This article analyzes gestural interactions between hearing and d/Deaf Nepalis to argue that local understandings of the consequences of these engagements make visible ways of ideologizing gesture that may be obscured by the gestural typologies widely used by scholars. In Nepal, d/Deafness is associated with ritual pollution that can be shared across persons. Consequently, the use of gesture in a communicative interaction can both presuppose the …
Deafmum: A Deaf Maltese Activist’s Strategies for Addressing Hearing Parents of Deaf Children
Annabelle Xerri, a Maltese Deaf activist, and Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, a hearing American anthropologist, analyze Annabelle’s social media posts detailing how she navigates sensory and linguistic asymmetries between herself and her hearing children. These posts are part of a larger activist effort to ensure that d/Deaf children in Malta are provided access to sign language. We situate these social media posts in the broader moment in which her ac…
Feeling your own (or someone else's) face: Writing signs from the expressive viewpoint
Writing the smile: Language ideologies in, and through, sign language scripts
Lending a hand: Competence through cooperation in Nepal's Deaf associations
Since forming contacts with international Deaf associations promoting an ethnolinguistic model of Deafness, members of Nepal's Deaf associations define Deafness by competence in Nepali Sign Language rather than audiological status. By analyzing the ideological and interactional processes through which homesigners are incorporated into Nepali Deaf social life, this article explores the effects of local beliefs about the nature of language, personh…
Many Names for Mother: The Ethno-Linguistic Politics of Deafness in Nepal
In Nepal d/Deafness1 has commonly been interpreted as the result of the affected person's bad karma. As a result, families have often worked to render d/Deafness invisible, by preventing non-hearin
Lending a hand: Competence through cooperation in Nepal's Deaf associations
Since forming contacts with international Deaf associations promoting an ethnolinguistic model of Deafness, members of Nepal's Deaf associations define Deafness by competence in Nepali Sign Language rather than audiological status. By analyzing the ideological and interactional processes through which homesigners are incorporated into Nepali Deaf social life, this article explores the effects of local beliefs about the nature of language, personh…
Many Names for Mother: The Ethno-Linguistic Politics of Deafness in Nepal
In Nepal d/Deafness1 has commonly been interpreted as the result of the affected person's bad karma. As a result, families have often worked to render d/Deafness invisible, by preventing non-hearin
Feeling your own (or someone else's) face: Writing signs from the expressive viewpoint
Writing the smile: Language ideologies in, and through, sign language scripts
Many Names for Mother: The Ethno-Linguistic Politics of Deafness in Nepal
In Nepal d/Deafness1 has commonly been interpreted as the result of the affected person's bad karma. As a result, families have often worked to render d/Deafness invisible, by preventing non-hearin
Writing the smile: Language ideologies in, and through, sign language scripts
Lending a hand: Competence through cooperation in Nepal's Deaf associations
Since forming contacts with international Deaf associations promoting an ethnolinguistic model of Deafness, members of Nepal's Deaf associations define Deafness by competence in Nepali Sign Language rather than audiological status. By analyzing the ideological and interactional processes through which homesigners are incorporated into Nepali Deaf social life, this article explores the effects of local beliefs about the nature of language, personh…
Feeling your own (or someone else's) face: Writing signs from the expressive viewpoint
Ordering burgers, reordering relations: Gestural interactions between hearing and d/Deaf Nepalis
This article analyzes gestural interactions between hearing and d/Deaf Nepalis to argue that local understandings of the consequences of these engagements make visible ways of ideologizing gesture that may be obscured by the gestural typologies widely used by scholars. In Nepal, d/Deafness is associated with ritual pollution that can be shared across persons. Consequently, the use of gesture in a communicative interaction can both presuppose the …
Deafmum: A Deaf Maltese Activist’s Strategies for Addressing Hearing Parents of Deaf Children
Annabelle Xerri, a Maltese Deaf activist, and Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, a hearing American anthropologist, analyze Annabelle’s social media posts detailing how she navigates sensory and linguistic asymmetries between herself and her hearing children. These posts are part of a larger activist effort to ensure that d/Deaf children in Malta are provided access to sign language. We situate these social media posts in the broader moment in which her ac…
Sign Languages
Ethnographic studies of sign languages illuminate and complicate the ways in which the category of sign language is differentiated from other categories, including the categories of language and non-language, different types of sign languages, and signed versus spoken languages. These studies also highlight how sign language ideologies emerge in particular contexts, methods, and interpretations of data. An ethics of nonnormative communication is …
How Did We Meet: Experiments with Ethnographic Comics in Nepal
This comic-format article details a 2024 workshop that the authors held in Nepal, in which Nepali, US, and Chinese writers and artists teamed up to create collaborative, nonfiction, research-based comics. Participants' research focused on "everyday life" in the Nepali city of Patan and was grounded in open-ended ethnographic interviews that each pair conducted with locals. This article draws on the events and output of the workshop to consider th…
Hearing Impairment and Communication (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Ideology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sign language (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Manually coded language (3 works)