Meredith Doran

Meredith Doran is an Associate Teaching Professor of Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Applied Linguistics. She serves as Director of the English for Professional Purposes Intercultural Center (EPPIC), supporting multilingual students in academic and professional English. Her research spans sociolinguistics, language teacher education, and second language pedagogy.

• Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics, Cornell University
• M.A. in Romance Linguistics, Cornell University
• B.A. in Linguistics, Scripps College

Her research focuses on linguistic hybridity, identity in diglossic societies, and discipline-specific communication. She has studied Kreyòl-French literature in Haiti and Verlan sociolect in France. Recent work involves analyzing academic genres in Economics, Medicine, Hospitality Management, and Mechanical Engineering to inform EPPIC's language support services.

Doran's publications reflect a transdisciplinary approach to SLA, integrating cognition and emotion in teacher development. She emphasizes identity negotiation in multilingual contexts and pedagogical frameworks for advanced academic communication.

In EPPIC, she leads outreach and consultation initiatives on multilingual DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) across Penn State's academic community.