People Type: Faculty

Biography Research Interests: Mariana Pacheco’s research focuses on how bi/multilingual students use their language and literacy abilities across in-school, out-of-school, and on-line contexts. She examines how these different contexts provide students meaningful opportunities to use their repertoires of language and literacy. Prof. Pacheco employs ethnographic methods to understand sociopolitical and sociocultural processes related to teaching, …

Biography Research Interests: Critical and justice-oriented pedagogies in language education; Anticolonial and antiracist approaches to language learning; Spanish for native speakers and heritage learners; World language teacher education Courses: CURRIC 975 Abolitionist and Liberationist Language Pedagogies   Find out more about LJ Randolph Jr. by viewing this faculty profile page.

Biography Research Interests: Dr. Diego Román is an Assistant Professor in Bilingual/Bicultural Education at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (Fall 2019). Prior to this appointment, he was an Assistant Professor in Bilingual Education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Román holds a B.S. degree in Agronomy from …

Biography Research Interests: Cathy Stafford is an associate professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her scholarly interests encompass various approaches to studying bilingual phenomena related to post-adolescent/adult SLA and the development and maintenance of Spanish in the U.S. in post-migration and Spanish-as-an-inherited-language (SIL) contexts. Pursuing longstanding curiosity …

Biography Bio K.D. Thompson is the Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities, Director of the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition, and Professor of Religious Studies with additional affiliations in African Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Language Sciences. Their research uses critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to examine African and Muslim discourse, …

Biography Research Interests: Discourse analysis, pragmatics, applied linguistics Courses: ASIAN 432: Introduction to Chinese Linguistics ASIAN 712: Teaching of Chinese ASIAN 633: Chinese Applied Linguistics ASIAN 632: Studies in Chinese Linguistics (a topics course that has focused on Contrastive Pragmatics, Chinese Pragmatics, or Second Language Pragmatics in different semesters). Please note: ASIAN 633 and ASIAN …