College of William and Mary

Faculty Member, English

William and Mary Professor of Community Studies

Arts and Sciences

Thesis Title: DIALECT VARIATION IN SCHOOL SETTINGS AMONG AFRICANAMERICAN CHILDREN OF LOW-SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

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Anne Harper Charity Hudley is Associate Professor of Education, English, Linguistics, and Africana Studies and the William and the inaugural William and Mary Professor of Community Studies at the College of William and Mary  in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her research and publications address the relationship between language variation and Pre K-16 educational practices and policies. Her publications appear in journals including Child Development, Language Variation and Change, American Speech, Language and Linguistics Compass, Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, and in several book collections including the Handbook of African-American Psychology, Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Literacy Education and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Her book Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools, co-authored with Christine Mallinson of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, is available from Teachers College Press in the Multicultural Studies Series.

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