This course will introduce students to major themes situated at the
intersection of race, empire, and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of
Other Languages), through an investigation of the works of established
scholars and contemporary theorists in applied linguistics and TESOL.
Using race and empire as our primary analytics, we will interrogate the
ways in which the teaching of English overlaps with racial formations,
colonization, globalization, language minority rights, representations
of English as a lingua franca, the supremacy of native speaker identity,
and constructions of multiculturalism.