About

Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia.

Department of Language and Literacy Education
University of British Columbia
6445 University Blvd
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada
steven.talmy@ubc.ca

• PhD, Second Language Acquisition
  University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
• MAT, TESOL
  University of Washington
• BA, American Studies
  Wesleyan University

I supervise MEd, MA, and PhD students in critical ethnography, second language pedagogy, classroom research, language policy, student and teacher identity, and critical literacies.

• Member, Dean's Advisory Committee on Research (2026-date)
• Faculty Coordinator, Discourse Analysis for Education Research Group (2025-date)
• Member, PhD Admissions Committee (2025-date)
• Member, MA/MEd Admissions Committee (2025-date)
• Member, Online TESL MEd Advisory Committee (2025-date)
• Coordinator, Summative Peer Review of Teaching (2024–2026)
• Graduate Programme Coordinator, ALSED (2022–2025)
• Deputy Head of Department (2013–2015)
• Faculty Lead, LLED Department Self-Study (2013–2014)
• Academic Director, UBC/Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange (2008–2009)
• Convener, LLED Research Seminar Series (2007–2015)