Samuel Obeng

Samuel Gyasi Obeng is Professor of Linguistics, an affiliated faculty member in the School of Global and International Studies, and a faculty member of Indiana University’s Honors Program. He also holds adjunct faculty positions in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Islamic Studies, African American & African Diaspora Studies, and in the African Studies Program (which he directed from 2007 to 2015). His research interests are in African linguistics, Firthian phonology, conversational phonetics, and discourse-pragmatics focusing on the entwining of language and politics, law, natural conversation, and therapeutic discourse. He has published or edited 29 books, over 100 papers in refereed journals and book chapters, and 25 book reviews. Dr. Obeng also writes poetry in English and Akan (three books) and political satire in various national and international newspapers using different pen names.