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 University of Maryland, as well as an M.A. in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi. 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 (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Second Language Studies)
Togafau-Lewis, T. (2025). Re: Diaspora. The American Association for Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Council Newsletter, 10(1), pp. 25-26. https://www.aaal-gsc.org/fall-2025-newsletter
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. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-J.2024.21.2-3.06
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). University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language. College Park, MD