Sonja Lanehart
Sonja L. Lanehart (PhD, U of Michigan) is Professor and the Brackenridge Endowed Chair in Literature and Humanities at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy (2002) and editor of Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English (2001), as well as several articles and book chapters on African American Language. She has forthcoming books on African American Women's Language (Cambridge Scholars Press), Dialect Diversity in K-12 Classrooms (Corwin Press), and The Handbook of African American Language (Oxford University Press). Her research interests include language use and literacy in African American communities, language and identity, and the educational implications and applications of sociolinguistic research.