Gail Prasad
Gail Prasad is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in the department of Curriculum & Instruction. Her research investigates plurilingual approaches to teaching and learning in multilingual contexts, and more broadly the role of creative visual and multimodal research methodologies in applied linguistics.
She completed her doctorate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in the department of Languages and Literacies Education. Her doctoral inquiry engaged children in English and French schools in Toronto, Canada, as well as in Montpellier, France, as co-ethnographers of their plurilingual language and literacies practice at school and at home. As a tricultural plurilingual Canadian and as a classroom teacher, Gail is committed to helping educators develop inclusive plurilingual practice to support all learners.