Language Across Difference

Django Paris is an assistant professor of English in the English Education Program and faculty in the Applied Linguistics Ph.D. Program at Arizona State University. He is also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate program at Middlebury College. He received his BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, his MA in Curriculum and Teacher Education from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in English Education/Literacy Studies with a minor in Applied Linguistics from Stanford University. He spent six years as an English language arts teacher in California, Arizona and the Dominican Republic before entering graduate school. Paris' research focuses on language and literacy in multiethnic schools and communities. He is particularly interested in understanding how pluralism works in multiethnic youth communities and in how we can re-vision language and literacy learning to foster understanding within and across difference. His teaching focuses on youth language and literacy practices, the training of teachers to work in multiethnic high schools, and qualitative and social language research methods. His research has appeared in the Harvard Educational Review, the journal English Education, and the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education and is forthcoming in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Dr Paris is also first author of a chapter in the Handbook of Research on Literacy and Diversity and has several other chapters in press. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Spencer Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation. Paris serves on the editorial boards of Research in the Teaching of English and Reading and Writing Quarterly and is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English Standing Committee on Research.