SCHOLARSHIP
Book
Racialized identities in second language learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil. Routledge (2017). Winner, 2019 American Association for Applied Linguistics First Book Award recognizing a scholar whose first book represents outstanding work that makes an exceptional contribution to the field.
Articles
Anya, U. (2020). African Americans in world language study: The forged path and future directions, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 40, 97-112. Read Here.
Anya, U., et al. (2020). Improving Spanish language teacher retention and success among Black Spanish-language learners: An HSI-HBCU collaboration. Commissioned paper for the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP). Read Here.
Anya, U. & Randolph, L.J. (Oct/Nov, 2019). Diversifying language educators and learners. The Language
Educator. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Read Here.
Anya, U. (2018). Race and ethnicity in teacher education. In The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language
Teaching. Wiley-Blackwell. Read Here.
Crawford, J. & Anya, U. (2018). English Language Fellows and Fulbright Scholars. In The TESOL Encyclopedia
of English Language Teaching. Wiley-Blackwell. Read Here.
Anya, U. (2011) Connecting with communities of learners and speakers: Integrative ideals, experiences, and motivations of successful Black second language learners. Foreign Language Annals, 44(3), 441-466. Read Here.
Anya, U., et al. (2010). Languages, identities, and accents: Perspectives from the 2010 Linguistic Diversity Conference. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 18(2), 1-13. Read Here.
Book Chapter
When the foreign is very familiar: An Afro-Dominican-American woman’s experience translanguaging race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage learning Portuguese in Brazil. In E. Trentmann & W. Diao (eds.),
INVITED LECTURES AND
CONFERENCE KEYNOTES
2020 “Racismo e ensino de português como língua estrangeira” / Racism and Portuguese language teaching Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (UFSB), Palestra do Dia da Consciência Negra do Grupo de Pesquisa Linguagem e Racismo / Federal University of Southern Bahia Language and Racism Research Group Day of Black Consciousness Lecture
2020 “Social Justice in applied linguistics: Critical perspectives on language teaching, research, engagement” San Diego State University, The Paulo Freire Lecture on Education and Social Transformation at The Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies
2020 “Critical Race Pedagogy for language teaching” Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Conference Keynote for the 2020 Symposium on World Language Education
2020 “Languaging identities in intercultural communication” Penn State Equity Pedagogy Network Speaker Series
2020 “Black Americans in Black Brazil: New language identities in study abroad” American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese, Conference Keynote for the IX-EMEP Encontro Mundial sobre o Ensino de Português / World Meeting on Teaching Portuguese
2020 “Interrogating color-evasive ideas and values in language education” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Conference Keynote for the 2020 ACTFL/Middlebury Research Forum
2020 “Understanding the identities, motivations, investments of minoritized students learning a new language” George Mason University, Annual Jeffery Chamberlain Lecture of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages (Canceled due to COVID-19)
2020 “The role of racialized identities in the Spanish language classroom: Supporting our Black students” Harvard University, Invited lecture and workshop at Instituto Cervantes & The Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States
2019 “Speaking Blackness in Brazil: The experiences of African Americans learning Portuguese in an Afro-Brazilian city” Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (UNILAB) / The University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony, invited lecture on campus in São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, Brazil.
2019 “Analyzing language program materials for equity-minded practices ”Rice University, Invited lecture/workshop at the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication
2019 “Race matters in learning new languages: The case of African Americans in Brazil” Davidson College, Invited lecture at the Department of Educational Studies
2019 “Racialized identities in the learning of a second language” Florida International University, invited Lecture at the Department of Modern Languages, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center.
2018 “Black sojourners in Brazil: Study abroad and transformative socialization” Swarthmore College, invited lecture at the Modern Languages and Literatures Department
2018 “Interrogating notions of ‘colorblind’ language studies” Carnegie Mellon University, invited lecture at the Department of Modern Languages
2014 “Speaking our selves in another language” UC Santa Barbara Applied Linguistics Speaker Series
2011 “Race, gender, sexual, and social class identities in second language learning” UCLA Friends of Applied Linguistics Public Lecture Series