Interview with Anne Charity Hudley

We're really excited to have gotten to interview Anne Charity Hudley at the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January! Dr. Charity Hudley is an associate professor at the College of William and Mary, and the inaugural William and Mary Professor of Community Studies. She's co-authored two books on English language variation in classroom settings, and also wrote the section on language and racialization in the Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. She's a great sociolinguistic researcher who's doing a lot of work on dialectal variation, linguistic justice, and more. You can find out more about her and her work at annecharityhudley.com/
In our interview, we discussed the following topics:
- the importance of attending to language variation in the classroom
- what teachers and students have to learn from linguists, and vice versa
- the role language and linguistics has played in racialization, and how to get away from that
- how to work to convince people of the importance of interacting with language variation and linguistic justice
- why we should do more to get younger people involved in linguistics and research
... and more! Thanks again to Dr. Charity Hudley for speaking with us.
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[@keltic07]

Great to hear about the relationship between the field of linguistics, education and politics! As an English teacher in a cram school in Taiwan, she's a true role model and thought provoking on how to teach and think about language. Thanks for interviewing her! Absolutely love your channel!

[@thelingspace]

Thanks for the kind words! We were really happy to have a chance to talk with her. There's a lot of ways to think about this stuff, and it was definitely thought-provoking for us, too. ^_^

[@hcblue]

Phenomenal interview. Thanks to Dr. Charity Hudley for doing it. :D

[@thelingspace]

Glad you liked it! It was great to get a chance to talk with her. ^_^

[@frantastika]

Thank you for this fantastic interview and she is absolutely fabulous inspiration for many. Wonderful to watch you!

[@zagadkamisteriya]

Ah just want I needed for my paper. Thanks you guys!

[@thelingspace]

Glad to be able to help! ^_^

[@Kenneth_the_Philosopher]

Hidden Figures in Linguistics! Great Video!

[@AnneCharityHudley]

Thanks so much! Your comment made my #InternationalWomensDay!

[@theycallmezeal]

Woah whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. I saw this video and I thought, that name sounds familiar... I have a class in the same building as her office, that's why :O

[@thelingspace]

Great! I hope you take the opportunity to take a class with her, then, she's got a lot of interesting stuff to say. ^_^

[@Fluffydoodly]

Love that t-shirt!! (and the video)!

[@thelingspace]

Glad you like both of them! It's one of my favourite t-shirts, for sure. ^_^

[@mchu5580]

this is an excellent video and it was very cool to learn more about this! professor John Bauch’s ted talk on linguistic profiling is similar to this and was another helpful resource for me in learning about race in linguistics

[@MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee]

This is so Cool I really want to take linguistics I love history geo politics and human geography.

[@thelingspace]

Thanks! There's a lot of good connections through linguistics to those other topics, I think it's definitely worth your attention. ^_^

[@frankharr9466]

Empathy can be SO hard to achieve.