Anne Harper Charity Hudley is an American linguist who works on language variation in secondary schools. Since 2021, she has been a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Early life and education

Charity Hudley received her PhD in linguistics from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in 2005. She is from

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, Virginia, where she attended St. Catherine's School for 13 years. Her undergraduate degree is from Harvard University.

Career and research

From 2005 to 2017 Charity Hudley was Associate Professor of

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, and

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and the William and Mary Professor of Community Studies at the

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. She also co-directed the William and Mary Scholars Undergraduate Experience (WMSURE) and was affiliated with the Africana Studies and

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programs. Thereafter, she held the North Hall endowed chair at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

before moving to Stanford in 2021. Since 2021, Charity Hudley is Professor of Education at the

Stanford University Graduate School of Education The Stanford University Graduate School of Education (Stanford GSE or GSE) is one of the top School of Education, education schools in the United States. It offers master's and doctoral programs in more than 25 areas of specialization, along with ...

(GSE). She is additionally a Trustee at the

Center for Applied Linguistics The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1959 and headquartered in Washington, DC. Its mission is to promote language learning and cultural understanding. Its president and chief executive officer i ...

(CAL). Charity Hudley's research focus is the language of the American classroom, its relevance for the study of race and

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, and how language use in the classroom relates to (and affects) educational attainment. This work aims at bringing knowledge of the field of

sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural Norm (sociology), norms, expectations, and context (language use), context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on languag ...

to educators, and helps us understand the ways in which literacy, dialect, and individual variation interact. Charity Hudley has been actively involved in leadership roles in the

Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

. Charity Hudley was the undergraduate program representative and chair of the subcommittee on diversity on the

Committee on Linguistics in Higher Education from 2009 to 2016, and in 2018 she was part of a special session held at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City addressing topics of bias, power dynamics, and harassment in linguistics. She served as a member of the

Executive Committee from 2017-2020.

Honors and distinctions

She is a member of the editorial board for ''

Language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

'', with a focus on the Teaching Linguistics section, for ''

Language and Linguistics Compass ''Language and Linguistics Compass'' is an online peer-reviewed linguistics journal established by Blackwell Publishers (now Wiley-Blackwell) in 2006. One of eight Compass journals, ''Language and Linguistics Compass'' publishes state-of-the-art r ...

'' (Sociolinguistics), and formerly for ''

American Speech ''American Speech'' is a quarterly academic journal of the American Dialect Society, established in 1925 and currently published by Duke University Press. It focuses primarily on the English language used in the Western Hemisphere, but also publis ...

''. She delivered a forum lecture titled "Linguistics and Community Engagement: Keeping it Real," at the

Summer Institute at the

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in 2013. She has discussed her book, ''We Do Language'' co-authored with Christine Mallinson, on several radio shows. She has been interviewed by several major news organizations as an expert on language variation and racial justice. In 2021, Charity Hudley was inducted as a

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) is an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to distinguished persons who are members of the Association. Fellows are elected ...

, and in 2022 as a

Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is an honor accorded by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) to distinguished members of the society. LSA Fellows are "members of the Society who have made distinguished contributions to the dis ...

Select publications

Charity Hudley, Anne H., Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholz. (2020). ''Toward Racial Justice in Linguistics: Interdisciplinary Insights into Theorizing Race in the Discipline and Diversifying the Profession.'' ''Language'' ''96''(4), e200-e235. doi:10.1353/lan.2020.0074. Charity Hudley, Anne H. and Christine Mallinson. (2013.) ''We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom.'' Teachers College Press Multicultural Education Series. Charity Hudley, Anne H. and Christine Mallinson. (2010.) ''Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools.'' Teachers College Press Multicultural Education Series.

References

External links

Anne H. Charity Hudley: academic homepage

"Linguistics and Community Engagement: Keeping it Real," 2013 LSA Summer Institute forum lecture on YouTube

Valuable Voices (Charity Hudley & Mallinson book website)
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