Carmen Durham is a doctoral student and advisee of Melinda Martin-Beltrán in the TLPL Applied Linguistics and Language Education program. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Spanish and received a K-12 teaching certificate from Samford University, and she received her master’s degree in language teaching from Michigan State University. Carmen was born in Romania and studied abroad in Spain and Ecuador. She has taught and tutored Spanish, ESOL, and Romanian in a variety of contexts, including middle and high school, university, and adult education.

Carmen’s research interests include pre-service and in-service teachers’ experiences, positioning, and identity construction and the use of digital tools in classroom discourse. She has conducted research on teacher interculturality and communication with emergent bilingual students using qualitative methodology and discourse analysis. For her dissertation, Carmen is examining the use of digital tools in face-to-face interactions between teachers and emergent bilingual students.

Email: cdurham@terpmail.umd.edu 

Office: EDU2311