Jennifer Phuong

Jennifer Phuong is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College in Educational Studies after earning her PhD in Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in August 2021. Prior to entering academia, Jennifer was a high school special education English Language Arts teacher in Brooklyn, New York. She has also taught adult English as a second language (ESL) classes and a computer literacy course for recently arrived refugees. Her experiences as a secondary school educator pushed her to pursue research in examining the intersection between race, language, and disability, particularly for students who are dual-identified as English Learners (ELs) with disabilities.

Research Interests And Current Projects

Jennifer is currently working on her dissertation, which examines the intersection of race, language, and disability through teacher collaboration in bilingual special education. She has also worked on the Philadelphia Bilingual Education Project, a research team that examines bilingual education historically and contemporarily in Philadelphia.

Areas Of Expertise

• Race and education
• Sociolinguistics
• Special education

Education

• M.S.Ed. (Teacher of students with disabilities in middle childhood education generalist, grades 5-9) Brooklyn College, 2011.
• B.A. (French Studies, Linguistics) University of Pennsylvania, 2009.

Companies

• Visiting Assistant Professor Swarthmore College (2021)
• Editorial Assistant Research on the Teaching of English (2020)
• Part-Time Lecturer University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (2019 — 2022)
• Part-Time Lecturer Villanova University (2018 — 2021)
• Research Apprentice University of Pennsylvania (2015 — 2019)
• Co-Editor-in-Chief Working Papers in Educational Linguistics (2017 — 2018)
• Secondary Special Education Teacher at Midwood High School NYC Department of Education (2009 — 2015)
• Teacher's Aide Shaw Beacon Center (2008 — 2009)
• Library Assistant Annenberg School for Communication Library at the University of Pennsylvania (2005 — 2009)