Ariel Caroline Wilsey Gopp

Writer | Consultant

Professional Work

I am a linguist and a writer with a lifetime in communications. I founded Sereia as a home to exercise my communication work and story curation projects around migration and place.Growing up watching my father break down and rebuild houses, my professional work in real estate and construction showcases my love of buildings and their histories.

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 Unbooking Project (Part II) What I Left Out: Reflections on Self, Identity, and WritingThe Podcast Project with Michelle Arendt | An exploration hovering around public scholarship and creativity. Pilot season currently stumbling about, looking for solid ground.This isn't a Book: Reimagining Ideas about Language and Knowledge Through a Southern Epistemic Lens | A collaborative writing project by The Unbooking Project. From the publisher: "A book about the processes of academic collaboration by scholars in different regions of the world, which provides an analytic account of ways of framing the epistemologies of the South."

Publications & Works

  • Co-author, This is Not a Book: Reimagining Ideas about Language and Knowledge through a Southern Epistemic Lens Multilingual Matters, 2026 BOOK HERE

  • 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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