Branca Telles Ribeiro
Professional Title: Professor of Intercultural Relations
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
• Intercultural Communication
• Dimension and Methods I
Education: M.A., Portuguese, Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; M.A., Linguistics, Georgetown University; Ph.D., Linguistics, Georgetown University
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
Ribeiro, B. T., Pinto, D., Mann, C., "It's difficult to talk about sex! The discourse of mental health care providers in a Brazilian psychiatric institution. In Handbook of Language and Health Communication, edited by Hamilton, H. and Chou, W.S. NY: Routledge. (submitted for publication).
Ribeiro, B.T. and Hoyle, S. (2009). Frame analysis. Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, edited by Brisard, F., Ostman, J.O. and Verschueren, J. Amsterdam: Johns Benjamins.
Ribeiro, B. T. and Lopes Dantas, M.T. (2008). "I'm good." "I'm nice." "I'm beautiful." Idealization and contradictions in female psychiatric patients' discourse. In Identity Trouble. Critical Discourse and Contested Identities, edited by C. R. Caldas-Coulthard and R. Iedema. London: Palgrave.
Dr. Ribeiro's teaching and research have been focused on analyzing intercultural communication within different domains. A key interdisciplinary project has been on Brazilian Immigrant Women: analyzing their needs and expectations in clinical settings. The results of this research have been published in the U.S. and internationally. Another focus has been on doctor-patient communication in psychiatric settings, where Dr. Ribeiro holds a position of Associate Researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. And most recently, some of her interests have also embraced the area of "new media" − a general term that can be applied to how technology mediates interpersonal communication. She has been analyzing differences between “mediated intercultural communication” and “intercultural face to face communication.”