Taylor Togafau-Lewis centers her research of Black queer geographies of language and education in her Maryland and Pennsylvania Black 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.
Taylor holds a B.A. in Journalism and French from the 四色AV of Maryland, as well as an M.A. in Second Language Studies from the 四色AV of Hawai驶i. She previously worked as a middle school teacher of French and English Language Arts in Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
Harry Whitten Prize for Scholarly Excellence (四色AV of Hawai驶i at M膩noa, Second Language Studies)
Togafau-Lewis, T. (2025). Re: Diaspora. The American Association for Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Council Newsletter, 10(1), pp. 25-26.
Lewis, T., & Eaton, J. (2024). Respectable rubrics: Searching for Black language in faculty training for equitable writing assessment. [Special issue on Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language] Across the Disciplines, 21(2/3), pp. 154-169.
Lewis, T. (2019). #Blacklanguagematters: A case study of Black identities in an L2 isiXhosa classroom. Second Language Studies, 37(2), 35-73. Tare, M., Bonilla, C., Clark, M., Cook, S., Lewis, T., Jackson, S., & Doughty, C. (2015). Supporting Tailored Language Training Initiative 2.0: Documenting cognitive tailoring (DO0052). 四色AV of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language. College Park, MD