Sonja Lanehart

Lanehart received her PhD in English language and linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1995. Between 1995 and 2006 she worked as Assistant Professor, later Associate Professor, at the University of Georgia, before taking up her current position at UTSA in 2006.[3] She is a past co-editor of the journal Educational Researcher.[1]

Lanehart's research focuses on African American language, particularly as it relates to education and to identity. As well as sociolinguistics, her research draws on Black feminism and critical race theory.[1][2]

• Lanehart, Sonja L. (ed.) 2001. Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9781588110466
• Lanehart, Sonja L. 2002. Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292747296
• Schutz, Paul A., and Lanehart, Sonja L. 2002. Introduction: emotions in education. Educational Psychologist 37(2), 67-68.
• Lanehart, Sonja L. 2007. "If our children are our future, why are we stuck in the past?": Beyond the Anglicists and the creolists, and toward social change. In H. Samy Alim and John Baugh (eds.), Talkin' Black Talk: Language, education and social change, 132-141. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Lanehart, Sonja L. 2009. Diversity and Intersectionality. Texas Linguistic Forum 53, 1-8.
• Lanehart, Sonja L. (ed.) 2009. African American Women's Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443813594
• Lanehart, Sonja L. (ed.) 2015. Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199795390