Hala Salem

Professional Bio

Hala Salem is a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Education and a master’s degree in Curriculum and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Instruction from Egypt. She has over ten years of experience teaching EFL courses to pre-service teachers in Egypt. At Penn State, she has taught academic English courses in the Intensive English Communication Program (IECP) within the Department of Applied Linguistics, as well as Arabic courses in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her research interests include language teacher education in multilingual contexts, translanguaging, and identity. More recently, her scholarship has expanded to engage with Southern epistemologies and decolonial discourses.