Tamara Warhol is an Associate Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. She teaches in the linguistics, TESOL, and Second Language Studies programs.
Research Interests
Dr. Warhol's areas of research expertise include language pedagogy, language teacher education, language program administration, and discourse analysis.
Biography
Dr. Tamara Warhol earned her M.S.Ed. in TESOL (2002) and a Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics (2011) from the University of Pennsylvania. She has dedicated her career to improving language pedagogy, language teacher education, and qualitative research methods.
Dr. Warhol has been a faculty member at the University of Mississippi since 2007, serving in various roles, including Director of the Intensive English Program, Graduate Program Coordinator for Applied Linguistics and TESOL, and Advisor for Undergraduate Linguistics. She has also held visiting scholar positions globally, including as a Fulbright Specialist at Thammasat University. Dr. Warhol’s work reflects her commitment to fostering linguistic and cultural understanding in diverse educational contexts.
Books
Warhol, Tamara. Notes from the Intensive English Underground, in progress.
Burkette, Allison and Tamara Warhol, editors. Crossing Borders, Making Connections: Interdisciplinarity in Linguistics. De Gruyter, 2021.
Articles and Chapters
Warhol, Tamara and Katherine R. Fields. "When Art and English-language Teachers Collaborate." Best Practices for Teaching and Learning in Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, edited by Mihyon Jeon, Maria Figueredo & Fernanda Carra-Salsberg, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
Schaefer, Vance and Tamara Warhol. "There Ain't No Doubt About It: Teaching EALs to Recognize Variation and Switch/Shift Between Varieties and Registers is Crucial to Communicative Competence. TESOL Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, 2020, e504. doi: 10.1002/tesj.504
Warhol, Tamara. “The professional vision of an ESL Writing Teacher.” Southern Journal of Linguistics, vol. 37, no. 1, 2013, pp. 46-81.
Warhol, Tamara and Katherine R. Fields. "Organizing blogs in an ESL/EFL class using the rule of thirds." TESOL Journal, vol. 3, no. 4, 2012, 735-744. doi: 10.1002/tesj.41.
Education
Ph.D. Education, University of Pennsylvania (2011)
M.S. Education, University of Pennsylvania (2002)
B.A. Religious Studies, Princeton University (1995)
Recognitions
- Summer Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi, 2008, 2012, 2018
- CIEE Faculty Development Seminar, Office of the Provost, University of Mississippi , 2008
- Dell H. Hymes-Nessa Wolfson Award for Excellence in Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
- Mary Finocchiaro Award for Excellence in Nonpublished Pedagogical Materials in TESOL, TESOL International Association, 2010
- Urban Education Fellowship, Spencer Foundation, 2003-2007
- China Study Tour Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
- Scholarship for Study of Ukrainian, Social Science Research Council, 2003