Taylor Lewis centers her research of Black queer geographies of language and education in her Maryland and Pennsylvania genealogies. Through this research, she works to honor the relationships of Piscataway and Susquehannock land, intergenerational knowledge-passing, and Black Language in the words of Black people. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park in the the Department of Teaching & Learning, Policy & Leadership (TLPL – Applied Linguistics & Language Education).
Essential to her decolonial work is the connection between her scholarship and activism. This includes serving as a leadership co-chair for the TLPL Graduate Student Association and advocating for queer BIPOC youth in Anne Arundel County with the Coalition for LGBTQ+ Students.
Taylor holds a B.A. in Journalism and French from the University of Maryland, as well as an M.A. in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She previously worked as a middle school teacher of French and English Language Arts in Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
I’ve forgotten to celebrate myself amidst all the chaos–personal, political, academic. I’m proud of being able to do work in my community and in the scholarly world, which is a difficult balance that I feel like I’m never really balancing.…
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