Please join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Chantelle Warner, Professor of SLAT and German Studies, in being appointed the Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. Dr. Warner's new position will begin on July 1, 2024.
Dr. Warner is currently the College of Humanities Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Since 2014, she has co-directed the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), a Title VI National Language Resource Center supported through the U.S. Department of Education. She has also served as the Language Program Director for German Studies, and the Instructional Dimensions Area Chair for SLAT.
Dr. Warner's research crosses the fields of applied linguistics, stylistics/poetics, and literary studies. She is particularly interested in how individuals engage in creative, playful, and subversive language use as they negotiate complex social and symbolic worlds. This has informed her research in a variety of areas related to language/intercultural education including aesthetic and affective dimensions of language development, multiliteracies pedagogies, literature and intercultural learning, and technology-enhanced second language teaching and learning. Her recent monograph, Multiliteracy Play: Designs and Desires in the Second Language Classroom (2024, Bloomsbury) proposes an expansion of multiliteracies frameworks in second language education, by recognizing that learning a new language and culture involves not only culturally inculcated designs but also desires, the affects and emotions that shape our responses to ways of making meaning. Prof. Warner is the author of two additional books and many peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and pedagogical materials.