Katharine (Katie) Glanbock is a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics and Language Education program. She conducts interdisciplinary research focusing on bilingualism and bilingual education, with research foci spanning various social, political, and cognitive dimensions of language. Her current project uses geospatial methods to investigate how school choice policies shape access to dual language bilingual education programs, which have become increasingly "gentrified" by racially, socioeconomically, and linguistically privileged families. Her other research interests include the cognitive effects of codeswitching on second language acquisition and their implications for language pedagogy.
Additionally, Katie serves as an instructor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, where she teaches courses on second language acquisition and cross-cultural communication. She also periodically teaches in Chinese immersion classrooms for elementary school-age children through STARTALK, a federal grant program managed and funded by the National Security Agency.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Katie did her undergraduate degree in Linguistics and Philosophy at Brandeis University, where she also undertook extensive study of Mandarin Chinese. She subsequently served as a linguist and data manager for a natural language processing software company and later received a Fulbright grant to teach English as a foreign language at a rural elementary school in Kinmen, an island in the Republic of China.
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT)
High Honors for Undergraduate Thesis in Linguistics: "The distribution of null pronominals in Chinese: A Centering analysis of spoken Mandarin"
Publications:
- Glanbock, K. & Polat, N. (2025). Bilingual education research in the U.S.: A critical analysis of school choice and neoliberal ideologies in dual language programs . In C. Shei and D. L. Chao (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context. Routledge.
- MacSwan, J., Auer, P., & Glanbock K. (forthcoming). Codeswitching. In M. Aronoff (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in linguistics. Oxford University Press.
- Glanbock, K. (2023). [Review of book Policy Development in TESOL and Multilingualism: Past, Present and the Way Forward, by K. Raza, C. Coombe, & D. Reynolds]. Language Policy.
- Glanbock, K. (2020). [Review of book Decolonizing Foreign Language Education鈥擳he Misteaching of English and Other Colonial Languages, by D. Macedo]. Language Policy, 20, 135鈥137.
Conference Presentations:
- Zong, J., & Glanbock, K. (2024, April). Enhancing Intercultural Language Education in Chinese Immersion Classrooms: Exploring Teachers' Perspectives and Challenges [Roundtable Presentation]. Transdisciplinary Approaches to Language and Literacy in Educational Research, College Park, MD, United States.
- Glanbock, K., & Durham, C. (2020, October). Affordances and Constraints of Fluid Language Practices in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms [Roundtable presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics.
- Glanbock, K., Durham, C., & Martin-Beltr谩n, M. (2019, October). 鈥淚n your Country鈥: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Pre-service Teachers and Students Discursively Co-constructing Trans-national Identity. Paper accepted by the American Education Research Association, San Francisco, CA, United States.
- Leung, G., Lin, S., Lee, C., Glanbock, K., & Wesselhoff, A. (2018, April). 鈥淚'm not just a performing monkey": Native English-speaking teachers negotiate professional identities in Taiwan. Panel at the International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Yang, J.-K., Leung, G., Glanbock, K. & Wesselhoff, A. (2018, April). Examining adult EFL narrative development: Taiwanese university students' Frog Story narratives and narrative strategies [Paper presentation]. International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching, Taipei, Taiwan.
TLPL662: Second Language Acquisition (Instructor of record)
TLPL443: Understanding Cross-Cultural Communication for Teaching English Language Learners (Instructor of record)
TLPL646: Linguistics in Education (Instructional assistant)
TLPL688G: Linguistic Diversity and English Learners in Secondary Classrooms (Instructional assistant)
TLPL453: Life in Two Languages: Understanding Bilingual Communities and Individuals (Instructional assistant)