Usree Bhattacharya, PhD candidate

Usree Bhattacharya is a PhD candidate in UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education (Language, Literacy, Society, & Culture program). Her dissertation project explores the language ideological universe of young multilingual boys at an orphanage in a suburb of New Delhi, India, and analyzes the impact of discourses about "globalization" on language policy. She is also the Managing Editor of L2 Journal, and employed part-time as a Graduate Student Researcher for the Berkeley Language Center.