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Warner, Chantelle
Professor and Associate Dean

Chantelle Warner is Professor of German and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona, where she currently serves as the Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs in the College of Humanities. 

From 2014 to 2024 co-directed the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), a Title VI National Language Resource Center supported through the U.S. Department of Education. She has also served as the Language Program Director for German Studies.

Dr. Warner's research crosses the fields of applied linguistics, stylistics/poetics, and literary studies. She is particularly interested in how individuals engage in creative, playful, and subversive language use as they negotiate complex social and symbolic worlds. This has informed her research in a variety of areas related to applied linguistics and language/intercultural education including...

  1. aesthetic and experiential dimensions of language teaching and learning
  2. multiliteracies pedagogies
  3. technology-enhanced second language literacy development
  4. literature and intercultural learning

(See a full list of publications below.) 

Her most recent book Multiliteracy Play: Designs and Desires in the Second Language Classroom (Bloomsbury, 2024), builds on current discussions of multiliteracies approaches to language/culture teaching and case studies from university-level language classes, to argue for a framework that recognize both designs, the conventionalized ways of making meaning in a language/culture, and desires, the affects and emotions that feed literacy experiences, by centering poetics and play in learning experiences. 

Her 2013 book, The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony: Authenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies (Routledge) examined how linguistic style contributed to the reception of various, thematically diverse (quasi-) autobiographical literary works published in the late 20th century as authentic expressions of collective set of experiences. The sensationalistic and scandalous German autobiographies, which are the focus of the book, provided a fertile foundation for posing questions about what leads readers to perceive an individual testimony as authentic and what that tells us the symbolic struggles at hand. She also explored this same line of inquiry in a series of articles, including a piece published in the journal Language and Literature, “Speaking from Experience: Deixis and” Point of View in Verena Stefan's Shedding,” which was the winner of the 2009 Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) Prize for best article from a junior scholar in the field of stylistics.

Together with Niko Euba, she is author of the textbook Lesewerkstatt DaF: Literatur Lesen Lernen (Klett Verlag) for advanced German learners.

Until 2019, she was a founding co-editor and a current editorial board member of the journal Critical Multilingualism Studies. She also sits on the editorial boards of the L2 Journal, Intercultural Communication Education, Second Language Research and Practice, and the Bloomsbury Book Series Advances in Stylistics.   

PUBLICATIONS
Books

  • 2024. Multiliteracy Play: Designs and Desires in the Second Language Classroom. Bloomsbury. 
  • 2013. The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony: Authenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies. Routledge. 

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Annual Volumes 

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes

Pedagogical Materials 

Other Publications