Ariel Caroline Wilsey Gopp

Writer | Consultant

Professional Work

I am a linguist and a writer with a lengthy career in communications. I founded Sereia as a home to exercise my communication work and story curation projects. With a lifetime in the real estate industry, I also assist people with heart forward real estate work.

Current Projects

Displaced: A Memoir | An emerging memoir based on my master's thesis in applied linguistics – an autobiographical journey around language and identity loss on my family.The Global East Project: What Kind of Asian are You? | Stories about growing up in California as a first generation American of mixed ethnic background.The Podcast Project with Michelle Arendt | An exploration hovering around public scholarship and creativity. Pilot season currently stumbling about, looking for solid ground.Reimagining Applied Linguistics Through a Southern Lens: An Unbooking Approach | A collaborative writing project in conjunction with Pennsylvania State University, Portland State University, and internationally-based researchers, community members and scholars. Publication forthcoming.

Publications

  • The Unbooking Project. (Under contract). This is Not a Book: Reimagining ideas about language and knowledge through a Southern epistemic lens. Multilingual Matters.

  • Displaced: An Ethnography of Language and Identity Loss | Portland State University, 2025

  • Researcher and Co-author, Language Use in Somalia: Research Report - How Can We Speak the Truth if They Can’t Understand Us? | Clear Global and Portland State University, 2023 REPORT

  • Various co-author publications with Rodrigo Baena (Brazil), Michelle Arendt (University of Oregon) and a forthcoming publication with my daughter.

  • For Pete's Sake: A Playwriting and Translation Project | Culminating BA Thesis including a new English translation of Peter Handke's 1966 Selbstbezichtigung (Self-Accusation), a critical Sprechstück.

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