RLL’s 2025 MLK Jr. Lecture: Professor Uju Anya

The invited speaker for RLL’s 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lecture is Professor Uju Anya of Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Anya specializes in Black multilingualism and antiracist, equity-minded approaches to language learning. Her primary fields of scholarship are applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and critical discourse studies examining race, gender, sexual, and social-class identities in the language learning of African American students. Her book, Racialized identities in second language learning: Speaking blackness in Brazil, won the 2019 American Association of Applied Linguistics First Book Award. Professor Anya’s lecture is entitled “Where are the Black students in Language Education? Critical Race Pedagogy for Social Justice in Language Education”. The lecture will take place on Monday, February 3, 2025, from 4:00 – 5:30 pm, in MLB 4314.