Gabriella Modan is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State Univeristy. Ethnography, Sociolinguistics. Research focuses on language and urban identity, with an emphasis on ethnic identity and the discursive construction of cities and city neighborhoods as particular kinds of places. Interests in ethnicity, gentrification, urban planning, narrative, intercultural communication, language variation. Author of Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity and the Politics of Place and articles in linguistics, anthropology, and urban studies journals on the topics mentioned above.