Autor: Linda R. Waugh

Theresa Catalano is Associate Professor in Second Language Education/ Applied Linguistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and also serves as coordinator of the dual language endorsement and world language secondary education programs. Her research focuses on education and migration, language teacher education, multimodal critical discourse studies, and cognitive linguistics. She has published across a wide variety of journals including Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Bilingual Research Journal, Visual Communication, Critical Discourse Studies, Journal of Language and Politics, Social Semiotics, and Discourse & Society. Her second book, Talking about Global Migration (Multilingual Matters, 2016) was nominated for two national book awards. Linda R. Waugh is Professor Emerita of French, English, Linguistics, Anthropology, and Language, Reading and Culture, and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona, where she went in 2000 after teaching at Cornell University (starting in 1971).  She has (co-)authored many journal articles and book chapters, in addition to 12 books and monographs. She is finishing a co-edited book (Cambridge History of Linguistics) with a co-authored chapter on 20th century linguistics.  She has many research interests, including French linguistics, phonology, semiotics, semantics, pragmatics, and (multimodal critical) discourse analysis/studies.