Biography
Steve Moody received an MA and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literature from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and an MA in Economics from The Ohio State University. His interests are in sociolinguistics and intercultural communication, focusing on how foreigners use linguistic and cultural capital to manage identities in workplace and other professional settings. His research uses qualitative (discourse and conversation analysis) and quantitative (applied statistics and corpus-based) methods.
Research Interests
intercultural interaction, identity, conversation analysis, experiential learningTeaching Interests
sociolinguistics, pragmatics, research methods, career readinessEducation
- PhD, East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese) , University of Hawaii at Manoa (2014)
- MA, East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese) , University of Hawaii at Manoa (2012)
- MA, Economics , The Ohio State University (2009)
- BA, Economics and Japanese , Mathematics , Brigham Young University (2006)
Memberships
- American Association for Applied Linguistics (2013 - Present)
- American Association of Teachers of Japanese (2013 - Present)
- International Pragmatics Association (2013 - Present)
Professional Citizenship
- Committee/Council Member, American Association for Applied Linguistics (2025 - 2026)
- Committee/Council Chair, American Association for Applied Linguistics (2024 - 2026)
- Committee/Council Chair, American Association of Applied Linguistics (2022 - 2024)
- Committee/Council Member, American Association of Applied Linguistics (2020 - 2022)