Ana María Relaño Pastor

I am Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Philology (English Studies), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain. I hold an MA in Applied Linguistics/TESL from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a PhD in English Studies (Applied Linguistics) from the University of Granada. I have been a visiting professor at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, and a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS), University of California, San Diego. I have also been granted visiting fellowships at the University of Berkeley, University of Bristol and University of Glasgow.

My research interests include language socialization practices in multilingual communities, bilingual education, the interplay of language policies, language ideologies and linguistic practices in multilingual schools, and the emotional and moral dimension of narrative and identity in multilingual settings. I integrate a critical and ethnographic perspective in my research to further understand the complexities of language, identity and education in the communities I investigate.

I have participated in different regional (2), national (3), and international projects (4 European, 3 U.S.). I have been Principal Investigator of 3 research projects (2 regional and 1 national sub-project-APINGLO-CLM-). I am Principal Investigator of the UCLM consolidated research group LADIC (Language, Discourse, Interaction and Culture), a research member of the consolidated and interdisciplinary research group MIRCo (Multilingualism, Social Identities, Intercultural Relations and Communication) at UAM and affiliated member of IMEDES-UAM (Instituto Universitario de Investigación sobre Migraciones, Etnicidad y Desarrollo Social).

My latest publications can be found in Language and Education (2020), Qualitative Research (2020), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (2019), Foro de Educación (2019), the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (2018), and the Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning (2018), among others. I am the author of the monograph ‘Shame and Pride in Narrative: Mexican Women’s Experiences at the U.S.-Mexico Border’ (2014), Palgrave MacMillan.