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Biography

Meagan Driver is an assistant professor of multilingual education in the Department of Teaching and Curriculum at the Warner School. A Fulbright Global Schola, she completed her doctorate in linguistics from Georgetown University and later held a joint appointment at Michigan State University in the second language studies doctoral program and the Department of Romance and Classical Studies before joining the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. She is an applied linguist specializing in mixed-methods approaches to heritage language education, language learning, multilingualism, and positive psychology. A heritage speaker of Spanish, Driver's attention to the realities and needs of linguistically and socially diverse youth has led her to explore relationships among emotions and emotionality, linguistic and ethnoracial identities, and heritage or second language learning through transdisciplinary lenses. 

She leads and co-hosts a podcast, , which evolved from a participatory action research project with heritage language communities. She has published her ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ in Modern Language Journal, Language Teaching Research Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Driver began her career as a bilingual science teacher and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in applied linguistics and language learning and teaching in both Spanish and English.