Dana Calvet

Dana Calvet

Doctoral Student

dcalvet@qc.cuny.edu
Background

Dana Calvet is a mom, student, and teacher. She is in her fourth year of the EdD program. She has worked as a full-time lecturer and advisor in TESOL teacher education at CUNY Queens College since 2015. For her dissertation, she is studying in what ways transracial adoptees experience subtractive bilingualism and assimilation in the ENL classroom. She hopes this work can help emergent bi/multilingual learners have more equitable and decolonized public schooling experiences.

Related Professional Experience

  • Co-chair of the Anti-Racist Action SIG of NYS TESOL

Conference Presentations

  • Calvet, D., Cavaluzzi, A., Fisher, C., Foran, T., & Gerald, J.P.B. (2024, May 8). “But which one’s right?”: Teaching language variations with a difference model [Webinar].
  • NYS TESOL. Calvet, D., Fisher, C., & Gerald, J.P.B. (2023, May 23-25). Establishing the habit of anti-racist action [Conference session].
  • NJTESOL/NJBE 2023 Spring Conference, New Brunswick, NJ. Calvet, D., Cavaluzzi, A., Fisher, C., Foran, T., & Gerald, J.P.B. (2022, November 3-5). Anti-racist action: We need your help [Conference session].
  • NYS TESOL 52nd Annual Conference, White Plains, NY. Calvet, D., Cavaluzzi, A., Fisher, C., Foran, T., & Gerald, J.P.B. (2021, November 4-6). Anti-racism and deficit thinking in teacher-education certification standards [Conference session].
  • NYS TESOL 51st Annual Conference, White Plains, NY. Calvet, D. (2021, November 12-14). How to be the best mentor to student teachers you can be [Conference session].
  • NYS TESOL 50th Annual Conference, Virtual. Calvet, D., Sherman, B. (2014, July 10). “Assisting multilingual learners” [Webinar]. SUNY Empire State College.
  • Calvet, D., Kwon Dobbs, J., McKinley, C., Herrick, L., & Williams, P. (2011, February 2-5). Finding identity in cultural margins: A reading and discussion on transracial adoption [Reading and panel]. The AWP Conference and Bookfair, Washington D.C.
Education
  • MA Applied Linguistics, CUNY Queens College
  • MFA Poetry, CUNY Queens College
  • BA Writing, Eugene Lang College, The New School
Research
  • Critical adoption studies
  • Multilingual language development
  • Racial capitalism
  • Decolonial and anti-colonial studies
Publications
  • Calvet, D. Cavaluzzi, A., Fisher, C., & Gerald, J.P.B. (2023, May 5). Anti-racist action is an everyday practice. NYS TESOL Blog.