
Questioning Ideas of ‘Good’ Languaging in Higher Education
July 19, 2025 2 – 4 pm
, 2025: Maria Rosa Brea-Spahn, Ph.D., Clinical Professor, Director of Bilingual Extension Track, New York University

How do you define ‘good’ language? Where does that definition come from? And how does it breathe and exist in your entanglements with your self- concepts, with the materials you choose to consume, and in relational exchanges with each other, within communities? The presenter describes her own journey through a languaging critical turn, highlighting work within higher education classrooms and community events, such as the Liberating Languaging Museum, a pop up exhibit envisioned and co-organized by a collective of her co-learners at New York University.
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About the Speaker
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María Rosa Brea-Spahn, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. She is a teacher-scholar whose work has been centered at the intersection of multilingualism and disability. Her classroom and community collaborations focus on researching the impact of standardized linguistic ideologies in speech-language practices, sustaining variability in languaging in the classroom, and co-envisioning a path for linguistic liberation through art.