Elizabeth R. Miller, Ph.D.

My research interests focus on issues surrounding the learning of English as a second/additional language, particularly issues regarding identity construction in and through language learning, power dynamics, and language ideologies. I investigate how these social dynamics are constituted in/as interaction, using fine-grained discourse analysis.

My current research examines the construction of language ideologies in interactions involving minority language speakers, how learner agency is constituted in discourse, and qualitative research methodologies, particularly the co-constructed, mediated nature of interview data.

Education History

Ph.D. English Language and Linguistics, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Dissertation: The Discursive Construction of Subject Positioning, Power, and Language Ideologies among Adult Immigrant Learners of English

M.A. Applied English Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

M.A. Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

M.A. 19^th and 20^th century British and American Literature, Indiana-University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN, 1996

B.A. English Education, major; German, minor; summa cum laude; Grace College, Winona Lake, IN, 1991

Assistant Professor
of Applied Linguistics

University of North
Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
ermiller@uncc.edu

704-687-6566

Fax: 704-687-3961