Assistant Professor
LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
Curriculum and Instruction; ESL / ENL / Bilingual; Educator Preparation; Racism and AntiBlackness
Tasha Austin is an assistant professor of teacher education, language education and multilingualism. She is the outgoing Teacher Education Special Interest Group Representative for New Jersey Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages-New Jersey Bilingual Educators (NJTESOL-NJBE) and co-created and hosted their "Critical Conversations" YouTube series. Tasha has been named a 2022-2024 Cultivating New Voices Fellow by the National Council of Teachers of English and was awarded the Anthony J. Papalia Award for outstanding article by the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers. Her research uses critical race theory and Black feminist epistemologies through a raciolinguistic perspective to qualitatively examine language, identity and power, and the ways in which anti-Blackness emerges in language education and (language) teacher preparation. Through her purposeful enactment of critical consciousness and engaged pedagogies, her praxis seeks to effect meaningful change in the field of language education and within teacher education more broadly.