119th International English Online Meeting: Translanguaging and Transdisciplinary research-July 21st

Event: 119th International English Online Meeting
Guest Speaker: Dawn Wink(USA)
Date: July 21st, 2024
Time: 9:30 a.m. (PERU/COLOMBIA/ ECUADOR TIME)
Organized by: Jaime Ancajima (PERU)
Biodata:
Dawn Wink, PhD, is a writer and educator whose work explores the beauty and tensions of language, culture, and place. Wink’s latest transdisciplinary work explores language through the lenses of wildness, beauty, and imagination. Wink received her BA in International Relations, Spanish, and German at the University of California/Davis, MA in Crosscultural and Bilingual Leadership from California State University/Sacramento, Trainer of Trainer (TOT) Certification from the School for International Training (SIT), and PhD in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Wink’s dissertation explored stories at the transdisciplinary intersections of language, ecolinguistics, and linguistic human rights.

Wink’s novel Meadowlark (Pronghorn Press) was awarded the Women Writing the West WILLA Award for Historical Fiction/Finalist, High Plains Book Award for Woman Writer/Finalist, and NM/AZ Book Awards for Historical Fiction/Finalist.Her first book, Teaching Passionately: What’s Love Got To Do With It?, co-written with Joan Wink, was published in 2004 by Pearson. Wink has worked with language teachers around the world and presents regularly at international and national language and research conferences.
Wink is Academic Director of the Department of Teacher Education at Santa Fe Community College and lives with her family in Santa Fe.