Grappling with Community-Engaged and Collaborative Practice: Love, Knowledge Production, and Anticoloniality

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Suhanthie Motha (she/her) is a teacher educator whose practice is located on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish people past and present, including the Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations and the Duwamish peoples. She centers her research on the complicated workings of race in the context of the English language teaching profession and particularly on ways the English language is implicated in harm against racially minoritized people. She is the Director of the MATESOL Program at the University of Washington and the author of Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching, which won the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critics’ Choice Book Award and the Comparative and International Education Society’s (CIES) Globalization and Education SIG’s Book Award. She is a co-editor (with Alastair Pennycook, Ryuko Kubota, and Brian Morgan) of the Critical Language and Literacy Series published by Multilingual Matters. Her work has been published in journals including TESOL Quarterly, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, and Race Ethnicity and Education, and as chapters in books. She was born in Sri Lanka and raised primarily in Australia and New Caledonia, and she lives in Seattle.