Alexis McBride

Alexis McBride is a Ph.D. Candidate in Learning, Teaching, & Diversity, specializing in Language, Literacy, & Culture, in the Department of Teaching & Learning at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College.

Career Announcement: Alexis is thrilled to join Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY as an Assistant Professor of Education.

Research & Experience: Her research interests involve post-secondary English language learners (ELLs) and Spanish heritage language learners, multilingual education strategies, and basic writing instruction. Currently, Alexis is investigating the utility of translanguaging pedagogy in community college writing courses. Her dissertation explores the skills that linguistic minority (LM) learners bring to the task of translanguaging, as well as the ways in which students perceive their own language resources when given the opportunity to engage their complete linguistic repertoires. To view preliminary findings from her pilot study, you can read a Spanish language article that was recently published in the Actas del 8º Congreso Ibero-Americano en Investigación Cualitativa 2019.

Previously, she served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow, and as an instructor, at Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching, facilitating the graduate student certificate program in Humanities Teaching and Learning. She has also served as a Capstone Mentor to M.Ed. students in the Learning and Design program at Vanderbilt.

In addition to her doctoral studies, Alexis is a lifelong language learner. Recently, she studied Irish Gaelic at the Coimín National School in Gleann Fhinne, located in the Blue Stack Mountains of the Donegal Highlands.