Suhanthie Motha (she/her)

Associate Professor

Suhanthie Motha

Contact Information

PDL A-413

Office Hours

Tuesdays 1:00-3:00PM, contact me for location

Fields of Interest

Applied Linguistics Critical Race Theory Education Global English Language Pedagogy Pedagogy Race and Ethnicity Research Methods TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

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

Research Advised

Courses Taught

Winter 2025

ENGL 572 A: Methods and Materials for Teaching English as a Second Language

Autumn 2024

ENGL 571 A: Theory and Practice on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Winter 2024

ENGL 574 A: Research Methods in Second-Language Acquisition

Spring 2021

ENGL 570 A: Practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language

Autumn 2020

ENGL 571 A: Theory and Practice on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Affiliations

Home Department

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