Dr. Jürgen K. Streeck

Associate Professor
CMA 7.122
512-471-1955
FAX: 512-471-3504
jstreeck@mail.utexas.edu

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Dr. Jürgen K. Streeck (Ph.D. F.U. Berlin, 1981) studies human interaction in everyday life. He is particularly interested in the relationships between linguistic and embodied components (multimodality) and in the cultural foundations of communication. He has conducted fieldwork in Germany, the Philippines, and the U.S. Many of his recent publications have been on gesture, and he has served as inaugural president of the International Society for Gesture Studies. His book Gesturecraft will appear in late 2007 (Benjamins), and he is an editor (with Charles Goodwin and Curtis LeBaron) of a book on multimodality in human interaction, to appear in 2008 (Cambridge University Press). He currently conducts research on intercultural and multimodal communication in an Austin car-repair shop and on micro-processes of speaker-listener cooperation in diverse human languages. In addition to his research on everyday interaction, Dr. Streeck also studies how rappers have re-invented language and how a new community, the ‘hip-hop nation’, has evolved from new ways of using languages. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on conversation analysis, embodied communication, micro-ethnography, visually mediated communication, intercultural communication, and hip-hop. He also serves on the faculty of the departments of anthropology and Germanic studies.