Emma R. Britton, Ph.D.

I am an applied linguist who focuses on critical language education. I hold a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the Department of Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies at UMass Amherst. As a second language (L2) educator, my research and praxis centers applications of critical linguistic, sociocultural, multimodal, new materialist, and transformative learning theories.

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As an educational researcher, I conduct classroom-situated ethnographies of communication, self-studies, and corpus-based linguistic analyses of learner texts. My contexts of inquiry include second and world language classrooms, virtual language exchange, language teacher education, second language writing processes, and immigrant job training programs.

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I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Study of Deeper Learning with the American Educational Research Association where I conduct corpus- and systemic functional linguistic-based analyses of texts composed by high school English language arts students. I also teach courses for bilingual educators and educational doctoral students at UMass Amherst and University of Missouri-St. Louis.