Melisa Cahnmann‐taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 75847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melisa Cahnmann‐taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Cahnmann‐taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5667-8695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Arts-Based Research in Education
Queer breaches and normative devices
Cisgender and heterosexual norms permeate every level of language classrooms, from textbooks to classroom discourse to teachers’ actions, constraining queer/trans learners’ ability to be themselves. Yet queer/trans and non-queer/trans learners alike may challenge cisheteronormativity within the language classroom and create new possibilities. We investigate the possibilities of queer/trans learners’ agency within these normative structures by bri…
Queer is as Queer Does
What does it mean to queer the L2 classroom and why does it matter? Building on inclusive pedagogical approaches, this paper considers what queering looks like/sounds like/feels like in the context of two case study classrooms where language teachers learned about Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) methods in a novice Mandarin language context. Data include recorded videos and transcriptions, focus groups, fieldnotes, an…
It Takes Time for Language to Change”
The foreign language classroom affords conversations related to heteronormativity, language, and power, but instructional approaches often center upon discrete aspects of grammar and vocabulary. Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) disavows such approaches, instead utilizing personalized questions and co-created stories. Queer Theory and Queer Linguistics interrogate the linguistic manifestation of heteronormativity. This …
Troubling normal in world language education
Queer theory problematizes societal norms related to sex, gender, and sexuality, while resisting normalcy. The authors utilize a queer theoretical approach in analysis of participant observation in adult Spanish and Mandarin classes as well as interviews with world language teachers. Analysis of interview data reveals how educators and adult language learners experience gender/sexuality norms in conventional classroom and school contexts. Classro…
Introducing the 2017 Poetry Prizes
Living the (Im)Perfect American Sueño/[Dream]
When Poetry Became Ethnography and Other Flying Pig Tales in Honor of Dell Hymes
Cahnmann-Taylor remembers her first encounter with Dell Hymes at an open mic event at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. She puzzles his complex stance on the role ethnographic poems might play in one's ethnographic project. In Dell Hymes's honor, she shares a poetic rendering of a speech event from her bilingual education study in urban Philadelphia. [Dell Hymes, ethnography, poetry, arts-based research
Anthropology at the Edge of Words
Anthropology has seen major challenges regarding methods, epistemologies, and how one writes ethnographically. As practicing ethnographers and poets, we focus on one among many vibrant new styles of anthropological scholarship: ethnographic poetry. As poetry appears more regularly in scholarly venues, anthropologists may wonder how to create ethnographic poetry and toward what end. To address this, we begin with definitions of ethnographic poetry…
Festival Cervantino
Ghetto Teachers' Apology
Festival Cervantino
Ghetto Teachers' Apology
Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Understand and Facilitate Identification Processes of Bilingual Adults Becoming Teachers
Our research focuses on bilingual adults enrolled in the Teachers for English Language Learners (TELL) program. TELL is a scholarship program whose goal is to increase the number of critically-minded bilingual educators in the state of Georgia in the United States. In this paper, we use critical discourse analysis to inform theoretical and practical implications in language education research. First, we examine how TELL scholars address linguisti…
Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Understand and Facilitate Identification Processes of Bilingual Adults Becoming Teachers
Our research focuses on bilingual adults enrolled in the Teachers for English Language Learners (TELL) program. TELL is a scholarship program whose goal is to increase the number of critically-minded bilingual educators in the state of Georgia in the United States. In this paper, we use critical discourse analysis to inform theoretical and practical implications in language education research. First, we examine how TELL scholars address linguisti…
Language Lessons
Translating Competence in a Critical Bilingual Classroom
Uncovering Creative Writing in Anthropology
American Defense
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration
Book Review| October 01 2003 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Volume 6, the New Immigrant and Language Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Volume 6, the New Immigrant and Language, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desirée Qin-Hilliard. Melisa Cahnmann Melisa Cahnmann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 104–105. https…
The Craft, Practice, and Possibility of Poetry in Educational Research
Developing a poetic voice prepares scholars to discover and communicate findings in multidimensional, penetrating, and more accessible ways. The author explores the craft, practice, and possibility for a poetic approach to inquiry among teaching and learning communities and encourages all researchers, especially those using qualitative methodologies, to consider what poets do and learn how to incorporate rhythm, form, metaphor, and other poetic t…
What Counts and How
Over Thirty Years of Language-in-Education Policy and Planning
Changes in politics, the economy, demographics, and local leadership all led to the establishment of the Potter Thomas Bilingual School in Philadelphia in 1969. This paper examines the school’s history and how it has created, implemented, and sustained various language policies that have constituted its bilingual program over the last 30 years. Using Kaplan and Baldauf’s (1997) model, I will identify how Potter Thomas reconfigured its language-in…
The Craft, Practice, and Possibility of Poetry in Educational Research
Developing a poetic voice prepares scholars to discover and communicate findings in multidimensional, penetrating, and more accessible ways. The author explores the craft, practice, and possibility for a poetic approach to inquiry among teaching and learning communities and encourages all researchers, especially those using qualitative methodologies, to consider what poets do and learn how to incorporate rhythm, form, metaphor, and other poetic t…
What Counts and How
Queer is as Queer Does
What does it mean to queer the L2 classroom and why does it matter? Building on inclusive pedagogical approaches, this paper considers what queering looks like/sounds like/feels like in the context of two case study classrooms where language teachers learned about Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) methods in a novice Mandarin language context. Data include recorded videos and transcriptions, focus groups, fieldnotes, an…
Over Thirty Years of Language-in-Education Policy and Planning
Changes in politics, the economy, demographics, and local leadership all led to the establishment of the Potter Thomas Bilingual School in Philadelphia in 1969. This paper examines the school’s history and how it has created, implemented, and sustained various language policies that have constituted its bilingual program over the last 30 years. Using Kaplan and Baldauf’s (1997) model, I will identify how Potter Thomas reconfigured its language-in…
It Takes Time for Language to Change”
The foreign language classroom affords conversations related to heteronormativity, language, and power, but instructional approaches often center upon discrete aspects of grammar and vocabulary. Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) disavows such approaches, instead utilizing personalized questions and co-created stories. Queer Theory and Queer Linguistics interrogate the linguistic manifestation of heteronormativity. This …
Living the (Im)Perfect American Sueño/[Dream]
Introducing the 2017 Poetry Prizes
When Poetry Became Ethnography and Other Flying Pig Tales in Honor of Dell Hymes
Cahnmann-Taylor remembers her first encounter with Dell Hymes at an open mic event at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. She puzzles his complex stance on the role ethnographic poems might play in one's ethnographic project. In Dell Hymes's honor, she shares a poetic rendering of a speech event from her bilingual education study in urban Philadelphia. [Dell Hymes, ethnography, poetry, arts-based research
Language Lessons
Translating Competence in a Critical Bilingual Classroom
Over Thirty Years of Language-in-Education Policy and Planning
Changes in politics, the economy, demographics, and local leadership all led to the establishment of the Potter Thomas Bilingual School in Philadelphia in 1969. This paper examines the school’s history and how it has created, implemented, and sustained various language policies that have constituted its bilingual program over the last 30 years. Using Kaplan and Baldauf’s (1997) model, I will identify how Potter Thomas reconfigured its language-in…
What Counts and How
American Defense
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration
Book Review| October 01 2003 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Volume 6, the New Immigrant and Language Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Volume 6, the New Immigrant and Language, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desirée Qin-Hilliard. Melisa Cahnmann Melisa Cahnmann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 104–105. https…
The Craft, Practice, and Possibility of Poetry in Educational Research
Developing a poetic voice prepares scholars to discover and communicate findings in multidimensional, penetrating, and more accessible ways. The author explores the craft, practice, and possibility for a poetic approach to inquiry among teaching and learning communities and encourages all researchers, especially those using qualitative methodologies, to consider what poets do and learn how to incorporate rhythm, form, metaphor, and other poetic t…
Uncovering Creative Writing in Anthropology
Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Understand and Facilitate Identification Processes of Bilingual Adults Becoming Teachers
Our research focuses on bilingual adults enrolled in the Teachers for English Language Learners (TELL) program. TELL is a scholarship program whose goal is to increase the number of critically-minded bilingual educators in the state of Georgia in the United States. In this paper, we use critical discourse analysis to inform theoretical and practical implications in language education research. First, we examine how TELL scholars address linguisti…
Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Understand and Facilitate Identification Processes of Bilingual Adults Becoming Teachers
Our research focuses on bilingual adults enrolled in the Teachers for English Language Learners (TELL) program. TELL is a scholarship program whose goal is to increase the number of critically-minded bilingual educators in the state of Georgia in the United States. In this paper, we use critical discourse analysis to inform theoretical and practical implications in language education research. First, we examine how TELL scholars address linguisti…
Language Lessons
Translating Competence in a Critical Bilingual Classroom
Festival Cervantino
Ghetto Teachers' Apology
Festival Cervantino
Ghetto Teachers' Apology
Anthropology at the Edge of Words
Anthropology has seen major challenges regarding methods, epistemologies, and how one writes ethnographically. As practicing ethnographers and poets, we focus on one among many vibrant new styles of anthropological scholarship: ethnographic poetry. As poetry appears more regularly in scholarly venues, anthropologists may wonder how to create ethnographic poetry and toward what end. To address this, we begin with definitions of ethnographic poetry…
When Poetry Became Ethnography and Other Flying Pig Tales in Honor of Dell Hymes
Cahnmann-Taylor remembers her first encounter with Dell Hymes at an open mic event at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. She puzzles his complex stance on the role ethnographic poems might play in one's ethnographic project. In Dell Hymes's honor, she shares a poetic rendering of a speech event from her bilingual education study in urban Philadelphia. [Dell Hymes, ethnography, poetry, arts-based research
Living the (Im)Perfect American Sueño/[Dream]
Introducing the 2017 Poetry Prizes
Troubling normal in world language education
Queer theory problematizes societal norms related to sex, gender, and sexuality, while resisting normalcy. The authors utilize a queer theoretical approach in analysis of participant observation in adult Spanish and Mandarin classes as well as interviews with world language teachers. Analysis of interview data reveals how educators and adult language learners experience gender/sexuality norms in conventional classroom and school contexts. Classro…
It Takes Time for Language to Change”
The foreign language classroom affords conversations related to heteronormativity, language, and power, but instructional approaches often center upon discrete aspects of grammar and vocabulary. Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) disavows such approaches, instead utilizing personalized questions and co-created stories. Queer Theory and Queer Linguistics interrogate the linguistic manifestation of heteronormativity. This …
Queer is as Queer Does
What does it mean to queer the L2 classroom and why does it matter? Building on inclusive pedagogical approaches, this paper considers what queering looks like/sounds like/feels like in the context of two case study classrooms where language teachers learned about Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) methods in a novice Mandarin language context. Data include recorded videos and transcriptions, focus groups, fieldnotes, an…
Queer breaches and normative devices
Cisgender and heterosexual norms permeate every level of language classrooms, from textbooks to classroom discourse to teachers’ actions, constraining queer/trans learners’ ability to be themselves. Yet queer/trans and non-queer/trans learners alike may challenge cisheteronormativity within the language classroom and create new possibilities. We investigate the possibilities of queer/trans learners’ agency within these normative structures by bri…
Arts-Based Research in Education
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies in Language (5 works)