Chief Editor

Fernanda Carra-Salsberg is an Assistant Professor at York University’s Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. She has been a postsecondary foreign language educator since 2001. Fernanda teaches English as a Second Language and Spanish for heritage and second language learners at York University, Ontario, Canada. Her areas of interest include second and heritage language pedagogy, child and adolescent migration, language socialization theory, language philosophy, psychoanalysis, and memoir studies.  Examples of her published work include: “Impressions and Transformations: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Effects of Early Linguistic Disruptions, Emotional Trauma, and of Testimony through the Study of Oscar Hijuelos’ Thoughts without Cigarettes.” Journal of Language and Psychoanalysis, and “Aggression and the Telos of Learning: A Psychoanalytic Study of Significant Language Learning.” Journal of Language and Psychoanalysis. Volume 4, No 2 (2015): 34-49. Currently, Fernanda is completing a book titled Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health and Language: Effects of Foreign Language Immersions, with the University of Exeter Press. She is also the co-editor of an upcoming publication titled: Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching: A Globally Informed Approachby the University of Toronto Press.

fcarra@yorku.ca