Associate Professor
Fields of Interest
Biography
B.A., University of Toronto, 1990
M.A., University of Maryland, 1995
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2004
Areas of Specialization
Race and empire in English language teaching, critical applied linguistics, linguistic minority identity, anticolonial epistemologies.
Awards:
Winner, Critic’s Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association (AESA), 2015.
Winner, Comparative and International Education Society’s (CIES) Globalization and Education SIG Book Award, 2015.
Research
Selected Research
- Lynch, R. and Motha, S. (2023). Epistemological entanglements: Decolonizing understandings of identity and knowledge in English language teaching. International Journal of Educational Research, 118, 102118–. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102118
- Sumyat Thu and Suhanthie Motha. “Transnational Agency: Enacting through Intersectionality and Transracialization.” Transnational Identities, Pedagogies, and Practices in English Language Teaching: Critical Inquiries from Diverse Practitioners. Multilingual Matters. 2021.
- Motha, S. (2014). Race and empire in English language teaching. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, Columbia University. Winner, Critic’s Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association (AESA), 2015.Winner, Comparative and International Education Society’s (CIES) Globalization and Education SIG Book Award, 2015.
- Suhanthie Motha. “Accessing Imagined Communities, Reinscribing Regimes of Truth?.” Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 5, 3 (in press).
- Suhanthie Motha. “Decolonizing ESOL: Negotiating Linguistic Power in U.S. Public School Classrooms.” Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 3, 2&3, pp 75-100 (2006).
- Suhanthie Motha. “Out of the Safety Zone.” Color, Race, and English Language Teaching: Shades of Meaning. Eds., A. Curtis and M. Romney. Lawrence Erlbaum. (2006).
- Suhanthie Motha. “Racializing ESOL Teacher Identities in U.S. K-12 Public Schools.” TESOL Quarterly 40, 3 (2006).
Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations
- Lynch, Renee. Decolonizing Collaboration in English Language Teaching: Teacher Identity and Tanzania. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- He-Weatherford, Zhenzhen. What and Whom Are We Teaching? Ideologies, Practices, and Preparation of First-Year Composition Teachers. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
Courses Taught
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Autumn 2017
Autumn 2016
Spring 2016
Winter 2016
Autumn 2015
Spring 2014
Winter 2014
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