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Charity Hudley, Mallinson AERA 2011
Anne Harper Charity Hudley is an American linguist who works on language variation in secondary schools. Charity Hudley is the incoming North Hall endowed chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a member of the Linguistic Society of America Executive Committee.
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From 2005 to 2017, Charity Hudley was Associate Professor of Education, English, and Linguistics and the William and Mary Professor of Community Studies at the College of William and Mary. She also co-directed the William and Mary Scholars Undergraduate Experience (WMSURE) and was affiliated with the Africana Studies and Women's Studies programs.
Charity Hudley received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. She is from Richmond, Virginia, where she attended St. Catherine's School for 13 years. Her undergraduate degree is from Harvard University
Charity Hudley's research focus is the language of the American classroom, its relevance for the study of race and ethnicity, and how language use in the classroom relates to (and affects) educational attainment. This work aims at bringing knowledge of the field of sociolinguistics to educators, and helps us understand the ways in which literacy, dialect, and individual variation interact.
Charity Hudley delivered a forum lecture titled "Linguistics and Community Engagement: Keeping it Real," at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at the University of Michigan in 2013. She has discussed her book, We Do Language co-authored with Christine Mallinson, on several radio shows. Charity Hudley was the undergraduate program representative and chair of the subcommittee on diversity on the Linguistic Society of America Committee on Linguistics in Higher Education from 2009 to 2016. She is also a member of the editorial board for Language, with a focus on the Teaching Linguistics section, for Language and Linguistics Compass (Sociolinguistics), and formerly for American Speech.
Key Publications
Charity Hudley, Anne H. and Christine Mallinson. (2013.) We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom. Teachers College Press Multicultural Education Series.
Charity Hudley, Anne H. and Christine Mallinson. (2010.) Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools. Teachers College Press Multicultural Education Series.