Associate Professor
Contact Information
PDL A-413
Office Hours
Tuesdays, 1:00-3:00PM, contact me for location
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. “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).
- 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).
Research Advised
- 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
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Winter 2024
Spring 2021
Affiliations
Home Department