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Faculty > Andrea Fontana
Dr. Andrea Fontana has published articles and books on aging, death and dying, leisure, theory,
and postmodernism. He is a former president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction and a former editor of the journal Symbolic Interaction. Among Fontana's last
postmodern published essays are a deconstruction of the work of the painter Hieronymus Bosch,
a performance/play about Farinelli, the castrato, an ethnographic narrative about land speed
records at the Bonneville Salt Flats, and a performance based on HBO's Six Feet Under.
Recent Courses Taught
 Soc 484 - Sociology of Death and Dying
Soc 763–
Graduate Seminar in Symbolic Interaction
Soc 705–
Graduate Seminar in Qualitative Methods
Soc –
Graduate Seminar on Writing Sociology
Contact Dr. Fontana:
Office location: CBC-B 232
Email: andrea.fontana@unlv.edu
Recent Publications
Death and Dying in America
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Current
Research Projects
You did what? Squeezing the clockwork orange
This ethnographic collaborative project (with Cheryl Radeloff) examines the boundaries between interview and interrogation in bureaucratic interviews of underprivileged
clients by using a symbolic interactionist perspective. The uses of conflicting presentations of
self to disorient the client are examined. Elements such as subjectivity and objectivity in
interviews are examined, the power structure of the interview and its ethical implications are analyzed.
The theoretical importance of significant others is shown.
The Interview: from face-to-face to virtual
This chapter for Norm Denzin's and Yvonna Lincoln's 4th edition of
The Sage Book of Qualitative Research (with Simon Gottschalk) will be revised and updated
in light of the new development of the interview. Specifically we introduce recent advances
in social neurosciences and discuss their applications to qualitative interviewing. Also,
the increasing virtualization of everyday life necessarily also revolutionizes the
possibilities for qualitative interviews.
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