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Research Focus
Dr. Engman's research interests address questions related to Indigenous/heritage language maintenance, revitalisation, and reclamation, materials use, identity, and policy in a variety of language teaching and learning contexts. She draws on her years of experience with Native and settler educators in the Upper Midwest of the United States to examine the intersections of language, sign, and power in the social and material world.
Recent and current work include a linguistic ethnography of bilingual pedagogies in an Ojibwe tribal school, a critical multimodal social semiotic analysis of the social media practices of high-profile Instagram teachers, and a study of intergenerational Indigenous language use on and with the land. Dr. Engman draws on critical and qualitative methods to better understand how expertise, relationships, and meaning emerge in interaction.
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Projects
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R8896SES: Foghlaim thumoideachais idirghlúine: A study of family language development in Northern Ireland
Engman, M. (PI) & MacKenzie, A. (CoI)
05/10/2021 → …
Project: Research
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R3501SES: The Additional Competences and Associated Workloads of the Irish-medium Practitioner
O'Boyle, A. (PI), Engman, M. (CoI), Ortega, Y. (CoI) & Turkan, S. (CoI)
13/03/2023 → …
Project: Research
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Relationality and Ojibwemowin in forest walks: learning from multimodal interaction about land and language
Hermes, M. R., Engman, M. M., Meixi & McKenzie, J., 2023, In: Cognition and Instruction. 41, 1, p. 1-31Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Land as interlocutor: A study of Ojibwe learner language in interaction on and with naturally occurring 'materials'
Engman, M. & Hermes, M., 11 Mar 2021, In: Modern Language Journal . 105, S1, p. 86-105Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile34 Citations (Scopus)210 Downloads (Pure) -
Everyday stories in a forest: Multimodal meaning-making with Ojibwe Elders, young people, language and place
Hermes, M., *, M., Engman, M. M. & McKenzie, J., 24 Sept 2021, In: WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship. 2021, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Co-conspiring with land: What decolonizing with indigenous land and language has to teach us
Engman, M. M., Hermes, M. R. & Schick, A., 25 Aug 2022, The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s. Makoni, S., Kaiper-Marquez, A. & Mokwena, L. (eds.). Routledge, p. 95-109 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Open AccessFile3 Citations (Scopus)60 Downloads (Pure) -
Indigenous and minoritized languages education
Engman, M. M., 29 Nov 2024, International encyclopedia of language and linguistics. ElsevierResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Prizes
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Best of MLJ
Engman, M. (Recipient) & Hermes, M. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Research Article Award
Engman, M. (Recipient) & Hermes, M. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Top Cited Article 2021-2022 (WILEY)
Guerrettaz, A. M. (Recipient), Engman, M. (Recipient) & Matsumoto, Y. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Top Cited Article 2021-2022 (WILEY)
Engman, M. (Recipient) & Hermes, M. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Activities
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University of Glasgow
Engman, M. (Visiting researcher)
15 Jan 2022 → 14 Jan 2023Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
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Indigenous language revitalization and decolonization panel and networking event (AAAL 2021)
McKenzie, J. (Host) & Engman, M. (Host)
22 Mar 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Micromomental Mindset towards Anticolonial Intentionality
Turkan, S. (Presenter) & Engman, M. (Presenter)
Apr 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Human-land relations, colonial academic consciousness, and sensory languaging
Engman, M. (Advisor) & Cushing-Leubner, J. (Contributor)
22 Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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A land-based paradigm in Indigenous language reclamation
Engman, M. (Invited speaker)
19 Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press/Media
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BBC Radio 3 (Arts & Ideas podcast) Language Loss and Revival
13/01/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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BBC Radio 3 (Free Thinking podcast) Language Loss and Revival
12/01/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Interview with Dr. Mel Engman, Queen's University Belfast (08.04.2022)
Chong, S. W. & Engman, M.
08/04/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities