Dr. Katherine Christoffersen
Associate Director of B3 Institute
Department of Writing & Language Studies
Email:
katherine.christoffersen@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-8102
Dr. Katherine Christoffersen is an assistant professor in Applied Linguistics in the Department of Writing & Language Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is also Associate Director for the B3 Institute, which facilitates the process through which the university becomes a bilingual, bicultural, and biliterate institution. She holds an MA in English Language & Linguistics and a PhD in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching from the University of Arizona. She is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Writing and Language Studies and teaches courses in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics in the BA English, MA Linguistics, and MA ESL programs, integrating bilingual and translanguaging pedagogies in these classes. Dr. Christoffersen's research examines bilingualism in the community and the classroom using discourse analytic and ethnographic research methods. She has published in journals such as the International Multilingual Research Journal, GiST Education and Learning Research Journal, Studies in Applied Linguistics, and NABE Journal of Research and Practice and contributed a chapter to the edited volume Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities & Dialects. Dr. Christoffersen is also the co-creator of an online accessible database of sociolinguistic interviews entitled Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa), and in 2021, she served as project director and lead principal investigator on the project "Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
