Instructor
Jesse Anne Gillispie LinkedIn
JESSE GILLISPIE, Ph.D., a seventh grade head teacher and UC Santa Cruz writing instructor, has a doctorate in education with an emphasis in applied linguistics and language in social interaction. She has worked with English language learners—from elementary students to postdoctoral researchers—and has researched and written on the relationship between language, identity, and learning. She has presented her work at numerous conferences including ethnography forums, the American Anthropological Association, the American Educational Research Association, and the American Association of Applied Linguistics. Gillispie's publications and conference presentations cover identity development and second language learning, teaching and learning in everyday classroom interaction, and the role of classroom management in student success and identity development. A native of Northern California, she lived in Germany and France before settling in the Bay Area.