Trish Morita-Mullaney

Email:
tmoritam@purdue.edu

Phone:
(765) 496-1622

Address:
Steven C. Beering Hall of
Liberal Arts and Education
100 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2098
BRNG 4126

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Trish Morita-Mullaney

Professor

Literacy and Language Education,
Curriculum and Instruction

Email:
tmoritam@purdue.edu

Phone:
(765) 496-1622

Address:
Steven C. Beering Hall of
Liberal Arts and Education
100 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2098
BRNG 4126

Links:

LinkedIn

About

Trish Morita-Mullaney, Ph.D., is a Professor in English Language Learning (ELL) at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. She also holds a courtesy appointment in Asian American studies program. Trish is a licensed K-12 teacher, coach and administrator from Arizona and Indiana where she taught and led ELL adult education, middle and elementary school. She served as Past President of the Indiana Chapter for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Education
  • Ph.D. — Language, Literacy & Culture, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  • M.S. — Educational Leadership, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
  • M.S. — Language, Literacy & Culture, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  • B.S. — Elementary Education with specialization and certification in English Language Learners, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Career Experience
  • 2025 – Present
    Professor
  • 2021 – 2025
    Associate Professor
  • 2015 – 2021
    Assistant Professor
  • 2013 – 2015
    Visiting Assistant Professor
    Literacy and Language Education
  • 2012 – 2013
    Supervisor of ELL student teachers
    Butler University
  • 2011 – 2012
    Assistant Principal
    Harrison Hill Elementary, MSD Lawrence
    Indianapolis, IN
  • 2006 – 2008
    Visiting ELL Instructor
    Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
  • 2004 – 2005
    ELL Instructor
    Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  • 2003 – 2011
    ELL and World Language Director
    MSD Lawrence, Indianapolis, IN
  • 1998 – 2002
    ELL Teacher
    MSD Lawrence, Indianapolis, IN

Research & Publications

Dr. Morita-Mullaney’s research focuses on the intersections between language learning, gender and race and how this informs the identity acts of educators of bilingual students. Guided by critical and feminist thought, she examines how these overlapping identities inform the logics of educational decision making for bilingual students.

Selected Publications
  • Sherman, B., Morita-Mullaney, T., & Renn, J. (2025). Speaking Up, Pushing Back, Closing the Door: Agency of Open and Covert Teacher Resistance in Dual-Language Bilingual Education. AERA Open, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584241311818
  • Morita-Mullaney, T. (2024). Lau v. Nichols and Chinese American Language Rights: The Sunrise and Sunset of Bilingual Education. Multilingual Matters.
  • Morita-Mullaney, T. (2024). The Chinese Freedom Schools: Historicizing and intersecting Lau with Brown. Language Policy, 23, 365-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-024-09709-3
  • Delavan, M. G., Morita-Mullaney, T., & Freire, J. A. (2024). Demographic silencing, ableism, and racialization in dual language bilingual education: A call for intersectional and program-level data reporting to assess gentrification. Linguistics and Education, 83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2024.101330
  • Chesnut, C., & Morita-Mullaney, T. (2023). Dueling Roles in Dual Language Education: Exploring Leader Identity Development in Dual Language Strands. Educational Administration Quarterly, 60(1), 3-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161X231211869
  • Morita-Mullaney, T., Cushing-Leubner, J., Benegas, M., Greene, M. C. S., & Stolpestad, A. (2023). Clashing Roles and Identities of EL Teachers during Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning. TESOL Quarterly, 57(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3238
  • Morita-Mullaney, T., Gao, F., & Zhang, R. (2023). When literacy ate language: An analysis of a research-based literacy intervention for Designated-English Learners. TESOL Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/TESJ.718
  • Morita-Mullaney, T., & Nguyen, D. (2023). Asian American Teachers as Interlocutors: Racializing Agendas of Ascription and Skill. Asian American Policy Review: A Harvard School Kennedy Publication (33), 55-64. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2808682032?sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals
  • Morita-Mullaney, T. (2020). Multilingual multiliteracies of emergent bilingual families: transforming teacher’s perspectives on the ‘literacies’ of family engagement Theory into Practice, 60(2), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2020.1829382
  • Morita-Mullaney, T., Renn, J., & Chiu, M. (2020). Obscuring Equity in Dual Language Bilingual Education: A Longitudinal Study of Emergent Bilingual Achievement, School Course Placements and Grades. TESOL Quarterly, 54(3), 685-718. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.592

Current Grants & Funded Research
  • U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition; National Professional Development Grant, Parental Inclusion in Language and Research (Project PILAR)
    • Duration of Funding 2021-2026
    • Total Award $2,903,764.00
    • Role Principal Investigator
    • Responsible for $2,323,011.20 (80%)

Courses Typically Taught

  • EDCI 530: English Language Development
  • EDCI 612: Seminar on Language Education
  • EDCI 628: Graduate Seminar