Cynthia Gordon is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Previously, she was Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and a 2012-2013 Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Gordon is on the editorial boards of Language in Society and the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. She uses
interactional sociolinguistics to explore theories of framing, intertextuality, and metadiscourse; family interaction; family interaction as depicted in entertainment media; expert-novice discourse; digital discourse; and language and food.