Chris Chang-Bacon

Associate Professor · School of Education and Human Development · University of Virginia

⭐ Dr. Chang-Bacon will be recruiting doctoral students to begin in Fall 2027 (applications Due Dec 1st, 2026). Students may apply through the Curriculum & Instruction PhD Program or the Language Education in Multilingual Contexts PhD program.

Research interests

Equity in multilingual and multicultural contexts; language ideologies and policies; teachers of multilingual learners; anti-oppressive pedagogies in teacher education; racial and linguistic discrimination in education.

Selected publications (since 2023)

[2023] From frustration to fascination: Discourse analysis as writing feedback for multilingual learners [2023] ‘I don’t think that’s really their wheelhouse’: governing language policy interpretation in teacher education [2023] Generation Interrupted: Rethinking “Students with Interrupted Formal Education” (SIFE) in the Wake of a Pandemic

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