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 a qualitative researcher, I conduct self-studies and classroom-situated ethnographies of communication. 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. I also teach courses for bilingual educators and educational doctoral students at UMass Amherst and University of Missouri-St. Louis.