Gail Prasad is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of Curriculum & Instruction. Her research investigates plurilingual approaches to teaching and learning in multilingual contexts, and more broadly the role of creative visual and multimodal research methodologies in applied linguistics.
She completed her doctorate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in the department of Languages and Literacies Education. Her doctoral inquiry engaged children in English and French schools in Toronto, Canada, as well as in Montpellier, France, as co-ethnographers of their plurilingual language and literacies practice at school and at home. As a tricultural plurilingual Canadian and as a classroom teacher, Gail is committed to helping educators develop inclusive plurilingual practice to support all learners.
Gail has received a number of awards and fellowships for her academic work and for her leadership in a variety of communities. In 1998, She was selected was a Weston Loran scholar by the Loran Scholars Foundation. As a graduate student, she was awarded the William Pakenham Fellowship in Education from OISE (2007), a Master's level Canada Graduate scholarship (SSRHC, 2007-2008), two Ontario graduate scholarships (2008-2009, 2009-2010), a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC, 2010-2013) and a Garfield Weston Doctoral Fellowship (2013-2014). She has gone on to receive OISE/UT Outstanding Dissertation Award, AERA Second Language Research Award and the Pat Clifford Award for Early Career Research from the Canadian Education Association.
Gail has been involved in a number of research projects at OISE/UT, most notably with the Centre de Recherches en Éducation Franco-Ontarienne (CRÉFO) with Professor Diane Farmer, as well as research interships with Careforce International in Burkina Faso and Kenya, and a MITACS Accelerate industry internship with ArtsSmarts Waterloo Region and Overlap Associates. She is now continuing her research on teaching and learning in multilingual schools at UW-Madison.
To view a list of Gail's presentations and publications, please click on the CV button at the top of the page or click here to view her full curriculum vitae.
To view examples of Gail's personal creative plurilingual production, please visit her gallery.
Gail's doctoral supervisor was Professor Normand Labrie from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her Weston Doctoral Fellowship was held under the supervision of Professor Nathalie Auger , laboratoire PRAXILING at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier.
She completed her doctorate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in the department of Languages and Literacies Education. Her doctoral inquiry engaged children in English and French schools in Toronto, Canada, as well as in Montpellier, France, as co-ethnographers of their plurilingual language and literacies practice at school and at home. As a tricultural plurilingual Canadian and as a classroom teacher, Gail is committed to helping educators develop inclusive plurilingual practice to support all learners.
Gail has received a number of awards and fellowships for her academic work and for her leadership in a variety of communities. In 1998, She was selected was a Weston Loran scholar by the Loran Scholars Foundation. As a graduate student, she was awarded the William Pakenham Fellowship in Education from OISE (2007), a Master's level Canada Graduate scholarship (SSRHC, 2007-2008), two Ontario graduate scholarships (2008-2009, 2009-2010), a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC, 2010-2013) and a Garfield Weston Doctoral Fellowship (2013-2014). She has gone on to receive OISE/UT Outstanding Dissertation Award, AERA Second Language Research Award and the Pat Clifford Award for Early Career Research from the Canadian Education Association.
Gail has been involved in a number of research projects at OISE/UT, most notably with the Centre de Recherches en Éducation Franco-Ontarienne (CRÉFO) with Professor Diane Farmer, as well as research interships with Careforce International in Burkina Faso and Kenya, and a MITACS Accelerate industry internship with ArtsSmarts Waterloo Region and Overlap Associates. She is now continuing her research on teaching and learning in multilingual schools at UW-Madison.
To view a list of Gail's presentations and publications, please click on the CV button at the top of the page or click here to view her full curriculum vitae.
To view examples of Gail's personal creative plurilingual production, please visit her gallery.
Gail's doctoral supervisor was Professor Normand Labrie from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her Weston Doctoral Fellowship was held under the supervision of Professor Nathalie Auger , laboratoire PRAXILING at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier.