Sophie Salvo
Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and author of Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century; researches intersections of language, gender, and intellectual history.
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Mar 1, 2026 • 36min
Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century"(U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sophie Salvo, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago who researches language, gender, and intellectual history, explores how nineteenth-century German thought linked sex and language. She traces origin narratives, debates over grammatical gender, missionary reports of "women’s languages," and women scholars' counterstrategies. The conversation also ties these legacies to modern language culture wars.
Mar 1, 2026 • 36min
Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century"(U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sophie Salvo, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and author of Articulating Difference, explores how nineteenth-century German thinkers entwined sex and language. She traces philosophical origin myths, missionary reports repurposed as evidence, debates about grammatical gender, and women’s strategies to claim linguistic authority. The conversation links those historic formations to present-day language culture conflicts.
