Refereed Conference Presentations
2025, March
The co-constitution of language teacher belonging and teacher communities: Learning from IEP directors’ accounts in Colloquium titled (Un)belonging and multilingualism among stakeholders in higher education (Colloquium Organizer with Sara Hopkyns), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Denver, CO.
2025 March
Positioning, Narratives, and Emotional Capital (with Min Wang, first author), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Denver, CO.
2024, September
Learning from Experienced Teachers: How and When Belonging Matters (with Christina Gkonou), Second Language Teacher Education conference, Brno, Czech Republic.
2024, September
Second Language Teacher Education: Inspiring Creativity, Cultivating Excellence (with Anna Sanczyk-Cruz), Second Language Teacher Education conference, Brno, Czech Republic.
2024, May
Collaborative and relational dimensions of emotion regulation in language teaching (with Christina Gkonou, onsite presenter), 5th International Conference for the Psychology of Language Learning (PLL5), Madrid, Spain.
2024, March
Exploring Language Teachers’ Sense of Belonging as Entangled with (In)Hospitable Spaces, Norms, and Relationships in Colloquium on Emotions as entanglements: Unsettling the intersection of emotion, language, race, and identity in language education, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Houston, TX.
2024, March
When Values Collide: Language Teacher Identity Tensions and Ethical Judgments (with Anna Sanczyk-Cruz, onsite presenter), 6th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Interactivity, Language and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway.
2022, March
Becoming a language teacher: Exploring the emotionality of belonging in deciding to teach, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Pittsburgh, PA.
2021, March Theorizing and analyzing ambivalence in language teachers’ accounts of happiness (with Christina Gkonou), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Virtual Conference.
2021, March
Exploring experienced language teachers’ emotion regulation strategies and agency (with Christina Gkonou) in Colloquium on Perspectives on emotions and agency in English language teachers’ working lives, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Virtual Conference.
2020, March
Language teachers’ agentive self-reflection and emotional capital (with Christina Gkonou) in Colloquium on Perspectives on emotions and agency in English language teachers’ working lives, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Denver, CO. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020, March
Paradoxes of happy language teachers: Exploring the blues of happiness (with Christina Gkonou), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Denver, CO. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020, March
A Narrative Inquiry of Second Language Teacher Agency in Promoting Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (with Anna Sanczyk), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Denver, CO. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020, February
Exploring Adult ESL Instructors’ Sense of Agency in Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (with Anna Sanczyk), TESOL / Applied Linguistics Graduate Students (TALGS) Conference, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
2019, March
Language teachers negotiating difference and power in exercising agency (Colloquium Organizer with Hayriye Kayi-Aydar), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, Georgia.
2018, June
Crossing Temporal Borders: Language Teachers’ Reflections on Past “Critical Incidents” in Constructing Professional Identities (with Christina Gkonou). Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland, New Zealand.
2018, March
A History-in-Person Approach to Teacher Dispositions and Practices: Orienting to the Personal as Sociocultural Phenomena (with Adriana Medina) in Colloquium on History in Person: Moments of Learning and Teaching in the Personal Histories of Teachers, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, Illinois.
2018, March
A critical approach to understanding language competence in Panel on Bringing a ‘Critical’ Lens to Theory and Praxis in Applied Linguistics, TESOL, Chicago, Illinois.
2017, June
Reexamining Praxis in Critical Language Studies (Colloquium Organizer), International Society for Language Studies (ISLS), University of Hawaii-Manoa.
2017, March
Applied Linguistics at Work: Exploring Language Practices, Emergent Ideologies, and their Implications for Social Sustainability Advocacy in Colloquium on Transdisciplinary Approaches in Applied Linguistics: Exploring Language Practices and Tracing Ideological Effects to Address Real-world Issues (Colloqium Organizer with Doris Warriner), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, Oregon.
2017, March
Language teacher identity and ethical self-formation: A transdisciplinary account (with Brian Morgan) in Colloquium on Language Teacher Identity and Transdisciplinarity in a Multilingual World, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, Oregon.
2016, September
Individual Positioning Work and the Mobilization of Responsibility in Organizational Discussions on Social Sustainability in Panel on Approaches to Sustainability, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD), Catania, Italy (Sicily)
2016, April
The dialogism of teacher identity and agency and language learner anxiety in Greek EFL classrooms (with Christina Gkonou) in Colloquium on Investigating Methodological and Conceptual Understandings of Agency in Language Teacher Identity, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Orlando, Florida.
2016, April
You say “data”, I say “material”: Researchers as creators in Colloquium on Research Methods as Practice: Current Fieldwork Strategies and Methodological Accountings, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Orlando, Florida.
2015, November
Pedagogy, Audience, and Attitudes: Influencing Metalinguistic Awareness of Texting Practices (with Rebecca Roeder and Pilar Blitvich, on-site presenter). 1st International Conference: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA), Valencia, Spain.
2015, September
Relational Agency: An Emerging Perspective in Applied Linguistics. British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), Birmingham, England.
2015, June
Teacher Identity Development and Struggle (with Adriana Medina), in Colloquium on Teacher Identity across Time and Space, International Society for Language Studies Conference (ISLS), Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2015, March
The Ideology of Agency and the Neoliberal Self, in Colloquium on Rethinking Ideology in Applied Linguistics: Theoretical Innovations (Colloquium Organizer with Peter De Costa), Joint meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée/Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (ACLA/CAAL), Toronto, Ontario.
2015, March
(In)convenient fictions: Ideologies of multilingual practice and repertoires as resource for constituting identity and social order, in Colloquium on Problematizing Ideology in the Age of Super-Diversity (Colloquium Organizer with Peter De Costa), Georgetown University Round Table (GURT), Washington D.C.
2014, March
Socially Mediated Agency and Second Language Learning: Theory, Analysis, Pedagogy (Colloquium Organizer, with Gergana Vitanova), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, OR.
2014, March
Social Sustainability: Is there a Definition in the House? American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, OR.
2013, June
Facilitated Empowerment: Social Actor Representation in Recent Critical Research among Minority Language Learners, International Society for Language Studies (ISLS), Puerto Rico
2012, October
Dialogism, Stance Accretion and Language Ideologies in Interview Talk with Adult Immigrant Learners of English, Pragmatics of the Americas Conference (AMPRA), Charlotte,NC.
2012, March
Colloquium on Interdisciplinarity in Research on Agency, Identity, and Language Learning (Colloquium Organizer), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Boston, MA.
2011, November
Traces of Mobility as Interactional Resource: Symbolic Competence and Tactical Agency in Multilingual Workspaces in Symposium on Sociolinguistic Contributions to Multilingual Education: Traces and Tidemarks at the Conference for the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Montreal, Canada.
2011, July
Performativity, Agency, and Legitimation: Co-constituting Agency in Interview Interactions with Adult Immigrant Small Business Owners in Symposium on The Limits of Agency: Exploring the Interface between Semantic and Social Constructs of Agency at the Conference of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Manchester, England.
2011, June
Constituting Identity and Agency: Immigrants’ Accounts of Opening their own Businesses and Learning/Using Language. International Society for Language Studies Conference (ISLS), Aruba.
2011, March
Co-constituting ‘Theories of Agency’: Immigrants’ Accounts of Language Learning and Use in Multilingual Workplace Contexts. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, IL.
2011, January
Constituting Agency in Embedded Spaces: Language and Ideology at Work among Immigrant Small Business Owners. Conference on Mobility, Language and Literacy, Cape Town, South Africa.
2010, June
Positioning Selves, Constructing Identities in Negotiating Potential Face Threats in Interview Talk, in Panel on Face and Identity On and Off Line at the 5th International Symposium on Politeness, Basel, Switzerland.
2010, March
Positioning Self, Constituting Agency: A Poststructuralist Approach to Agency among Adult Immigrant Learners of English, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, GA.
2009, June
The ‘Hows’ and ‘Whats’ of Interview Talk: Exploring a Researcher and Interviewee’s Co-construction of Meaning, Identity, and Ideology. Paper presented in Symposium on Researchers and the Researched: A Critical Approach to Interview Data, International Society for Language Studies (ISLS), Orlando, FL. (Symposium Organizer)
2009, April
Constructing the Subject: Agency and Meaning Making in Research Interviews among Adult Learners of English, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL), New Orleans.
2008, August
Adult Immigrants in Interaction: Reinscribing Dominant Language Ideologies. Paper presented in Symposium on Appropriating and Subverting Language Ideologies: Implications for Language Learner Identities, 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Essen, Germany. (Symposium Organizer)
2008, March
Positioning Self, Reporting Experience: Accounting for “Unreliable” Interviewees in Second Language Research. Paper presented in Colloquium on Reappraising the Interview in Applied Linguistics Research: Whose Truth, Whose Voice, What Theory? American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Washington D.C.
2008, March
Adult Immigrants in Interaction: Countering/Reproducing Discourses of Dominant Language Legitimacy. Paper presented in Colloquium on English Language Learner Identity through Interaction: Reproducing or Resisting Dominant Discourses, Annual American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York City.
2008, March
“What made you so strong?”: Narrating the Self as Collaborative Achievement. Paper presented in Colloquium on Narratives across Borders: Identity and Language Learning in Transnational Contexts, Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (GURT).
2007, March
Expanding the Community of Practice Perspective: Considering Historicity and Multiple Communities in Understanding the Perpetuation of Marginality. Paper presented in Colloquium on Multiple Perspectives and Multiple Meanings: Trends in Classroom Discourse Analysis, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Costa Mesa, CA.
2007, February
Resisting Empowerment? Ethnographic Research Informing Critical Pedagogy, University of Pennsylvania, 28th Annual Ethnography in Education Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
2006, March
Positioning for Good Language Learning: Metalinguistic Knowledge as Linguistic Capital. Paper presented in Colloquium on Language Learning as Subject Positioning: Toward a Poststructuralist Understanding of Identity, Learning and Participation, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL-ACLA/CAAL), Montreal, Canada. (Colloquium Organizer)
2005, July
(De)Essentializing Empowerment: Subject Positioning among Adult Immigrant Language Learners, World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Madison, WI.
2005, March
Constructing Powerful Subject Positions among Adult Immigrant Language Learners, International Society for Language Study (ISLS), Montreal, Canada.
2005, February
Rethinking Empowerment in Critical Pedagogy. Paper presented in colloquium on Practices for Educational Reform as Practices for Co-constructing Classroom Discourse Communities. University of Pennsylvania 26th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
2004, October
The Discursive Production of Empowerment among Adult Immigrant Language Learners, Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), State College, PA.
2003, March
Just Say “No essay”: Negotiating Access to Classroom Practice, Paper co-presented with Jane Zuengler in colloquium on Social Identities and Access to Classroom Practice, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Arlington, VA.
2002, March
Socialization into a New Practice: Negotiating Development in the ESL Writing Conference, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Salt Lake City, UT.
2002, August
Acquiring the Rules of a New Practice: Negotiating Discourse Roles in the ESL Writing Conference, Paper co-presented with Richard Young in colloquium on Situated Practice and Language Learning, World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Singapore.
2001, October
Development of Interactional Competence in Writing Conference Revision Talk, Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF), Honolulu, HI.
2000, October
The Discourse of Grammaticality Judgment Tasks and Second Language Acquisition, Paper co-presented with Hui-fen Chang, Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Madison, WI.