I am Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning and (by courtesy) Linguistics.
I am an applied linguist and a linguistic anthropologist. My research examines the social and cultural patterning of learning and language development in communities whose members use multiple languages and participate in multiple learning traditions.
Within the Department of Teaching and Learning, I am a core faculty member of two areas of study: Language, Education, & Society (LES) and Foreign, Second & Multilingual Language Education (FSMLE).
I am also affiliated with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and four graduate interdisciplinary specializations: Language Sciences, Literacy Studies, Second Language Studies, and Applied Developmental Science.
I teach courses on language socialization, second language acquisition, linguistic diversity in education, and informal language science outreach.
If you would like to learn about applying for our BSEd, Masters, endorsement, EdS, or doctoral programs, please contact T&L’s Academic Services by email (tl-academicservices@osu.edu) or phone (614-292-2332). Aspiring students can start on the T&L home page. Current graduate students will find links to useful resources here. Current undergraduates will find links here.
In AU 2023 I teach EDUTL 5365 Linguists for Literacy Education (Outreach, online) and EDUTL 8610 Second Language Acquisition.