Malik Stevenson

Malik Stevenson received his PhD in applied linguistics from Georgetown University. Before his PhD, Malik worked as a K-12 Spanish and ESL teacher. His research explores intersections between bilingual education and gentrification, the emotional labor of English language teaching for minoritized English language teachers, and the reproduction of raciolinguisitc ideologies. Malik is passionate about advocacy for education policies that are shaped by the voices of and lived experiences of Black and Brown communities. His teaching interests primarily lie in critical applied linguistics as a means of challenging dominant perspectives about language education, and raciolinguistics to understand how the co-naturalization of race and language impact ideas about language teaching and learning.

Selected Recent Publications
Stevenson, M. (2023). The emotional labor of English language teaching while Black in the US. TESOL Quarterly. doi:10.1002/tesq.3274.

Malone, M., Stevenson, M., Pineault, C. (2024). Survey of K-12 world language program evaluation. Foreign Language doi.org/10.1111/flan.12749.

Selected Recent Presentations
Austin, T., Pannell J., Stevenson, M. (2024). “Descriptive Adequacy” and the Overdetermination of Blackness: A Dilemma and Meditation in Language Education Research. Symposium selected for presentation at the annual American Educational Research Association conference to be held in Philadelphia, PA, April 11-14.

Stevenson, M. (2024). "This isn’t for us": Exploring how dual language immersion is perceived in gentrifying communities. Paper selected for presentation at the annual American Association for Applied Linguistics conference to be held in Houston, TX, March 16-19.