Chantelle Warner, Professor of German and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, has been named Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs.

 

Warner, who has been serving as Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, will start July 1. She takes over for Professor Kim Jones, who served as Associate Dean and then Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and is returning to the faculty as a Professor of East Asian Studies.

 

“I’m excited to continue working with our world class faculty and outstanding students we have in the College of Humanities, in our shared endeavors to better understand the diversity of human languages, cultures, and belief systems,” Warner said.

 

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. 

 

Warner’s research crosses the fields of applied linguistics, stylistics/poetics and literary studies.

 

She is particularly focused on 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, second language literacy, 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 expanded framework for second language education, which recognizes that learning a new language and culture involves not only culturally inculcated ways of communicating (i.e., designs) but also desires, the affects and emotions that shape our responses to particular linguistic choices.