Mandana Seyfeddinipur


Mandana Seyfeddinipur is a linguist.

Life

Seyfeddinipur grew up in Germany. She studied linguistics and Persian studies at the Free University of Berlin and graduated with a Master's degree. She received her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen from 2000 to 2005. Her dissertation was entitled Disfluency: Interrupting speech and gesture. She then worked as a postdoc at Stanford University from 2006 to 2009.
After another short stay at the Max Planck Institute, Seyfeddinipur moved to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 2010, where she became head of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, which has been awarding grants for the documentation of endangered languages worldwide since 2002, financed by the private Arcadia Foundation. Since 2014 she has headed the Endangered Languages Archive, which deals with the digital preservation of endangered languages and makes digital collections of endangered languages digitally accessible worldwide.
As an expert in the fields of language use, multimedia and digital technology for documentation, she trains scientists to develop multimedia collections of endangered languages.
Seyfeddinipur teaches courses in Visual Mode of Language, the use of videos in field research on endangered languages, language psychology and language use. Her research interests focus on language documentation, cultural and linguistic diversity in language use, psycholinguistics and language production. She is also involved in work on the preservation of poetry and other literature in endangered languages.

Publications

Monographs