Chris Montecillo Leider, Professor in the Applied Linguistics Department led professional development on working with multilingual learners in her hometown school district (Ketchikan, Alaska) this summer. Continuing her critical work, Dr. Leider also did a virtual talk for the University … Continue reading →

Doctoral student Jasen was awarded an artistic grant from the City of Boston in June to produce photos for several housing development buildings in East Boston and the Orient Heights neighborhood. This project was not solely focused on urban photography; … Continue reading →

When a new academic year starts it is always an immense joy and pleasure for our faculty and doctoral students to welcome new Ph.D. students to our Applied Linguistics family at Umass Boston. This diverse cohort of bright minds such … Continue reading →

UMass Boston Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics Jennifer Sclafani participated in a panel of sociolinguists and anthropologists at the International Pragmatics Association Conference in Brussels, Belgium in July 2023. The panel, entitled “Stance-taking, differentiation and (a)typicality in discourse: Ideologies of language, personhood, … Continue reading →