Kate Paesani
9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Kate Paesani (Ph.D. Indiana University) is the Director for the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), Associate Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian, and affiliated faculty in the Multilingual Education program in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. At CARLA, her work includes (co-)leading CARLA initiatives, including Social Justice in Language Education.
Dr. Paesani’s research focuses on postsecondary language programs, critical pedagogies, and language teacher cognition and identity construction. She is the (co-)author of numerous books, articles, and book chapters, including Literacies in Language Education: A Guide for Teachers and Teacher Educators (Georgetown University Press, 2023), which grew out of CARLA’s Literacies in Language Education initiative.