Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor

Melisa “Misha” Cahnmann-Taylor is professor of TESOL and world language education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Mary Francis Early College of Education at the University of Georgia (UGA). She is also affiliate faculty of Art Education in the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art. Her work aims to enhance Americans’ access to world languages, creative literacies, and multicultural humilities. She is the author of six books on topics of education, poetry, and the arts, notably coauthoring Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre and Arts-Based Research in Education. She has also published numerous articles, poems, and essays on language learning, sustainable or fragile states of bilingualism, and teacher education. She judges the annual Anthropology & Humanism poetry contest and is the editor of the journal’s ethnographic poetry section. Cahnmann-Taylor received her MFA in poetry from New England College, her MA in education research from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her PhD in educational linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

updated 2024