Darcey K. Desouza

About Me

I began my academic journey at Boston University where I earned my B.A. in Hispanic Language and Literature with a minor in Linguistics and a B.S. in Modern Foreign Language Education (2010). After teaching EFL for a year in Nigrán, Galicia, Spain (2010-2011) I obtained my M.A. in Applied Linguistics at Columbia University (2013). I then completed my Ph.D. in Communication at Rutgers University (2018) and now work in the Communication Department at Northeastern University.

My research interests combine the different elements of my academic background: language and culture, linguistics, and communication. I am broadly interested in examining the communication practices of everyday family life, and my research focuses on children's in-person and mediated interactions with their family members. I am primarily a qualitative researcher, and my research intersects the fields of Family Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and Language and Social Interaction with a specialization in Conversation Analysis. My current work in my postdoc at Oklahoma State University examines Shared Language Erosion in immigrant families in the US, with a focus on how language differences between family members can impact child health outcomes.