Untold Autoethnographic Stories of (In)Justice, Teaching and Scholarship

The voices in this book raise questions about the relationalities and entanglements of applied linguists in a troubled world. They are the personal stories that are sometimes hidden behind and within more conventional teaching, research and scholarship, however iconoclastic and unconventional the endeavors themselves.

Ari Sherris (he, him) is a Professor of Bilingual Education at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in the Tejas Borderlands, USA. He collaborates with Palestinian landowners and Bedouin shepherds on the West Bank of the Jordan river to free Palestine from the Israeli apartheid occupation, as well as with an Indigenous tribe in Ghana, the Safaliba, who are decolonizing their schools.

Joy Kreeft Peyton is President of the Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools in the United States, which connects and collaborates with thousands of schools teaching hundreds of languages, mostly on weekends. She has also worked in Ethiopia, Nepal and The Gambia to develop curriculum, materials and student pleasure reading books in students’ mother tongues.