Heather Willis Allen

Heather Willis Allen (Ph.D., Emory University) is Associate Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a core faculty member of her university’s second language acquisition doctoral program. Her research on language-learning motivation, teacher development, and multiliteracies pedagogy has appeared in the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin, Foreign Language Annals, the French Review, L2 Journal, and the Modern Language Journal. Her collaborative projects have included A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching (2016), Alliages Culturels: La Société Française en Transformation (2013), and the 2011 American Association of University Supervisors, , Coordinators, and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC) volume Educating the Future Foreign Language Professoriate for the 21st Century. Her current project is a monograph tentatively titled Reconceptualizing Foreign Language Writing: A Design Orientation.

University of Wisconsin - Madison