Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Jefferson Community & Technical College
About
Dr. Quanisha Charles is an assistant professor and TESOL program coordinator at Jefferson Community & Technical College in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She has taught the english language in not only the U.S. but also South Korea, China, and Vietnam. She is also a past NCTE scholar for the Dream Awardee, and a past Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Awardee. One of Dr. Charles' prominent works can be found in the joint TESOL Quarterly-TESOL Journal publication on race, identity, and english language teaching.
Current Work:
Dr. Charles' research agenda is largely centered on serving underrepresented populations, especially English language teachers. One of her most prominent scholarly articles, Black teachers of English in South Korea: Constructing identities as a native English speaker and English language teaching professional, used narrative inquiry as a methodological tool and Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a lens to examine how the term native English speaker (NES) is socially constructed when subscribed by Black teachers of English (BTE) in South Korea's secondary educational system. In addition to examining how these two teachers interpret themselves as NESs, this study analyzed how being a NES influences pedagogical approaches in the classroom and their identity as an English language teaching (ELT) professional.
Research Area(s):
- Black teachers of English; narrative inquiry; teacher identity; critical race theory
