Django Paris is Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy in the College of Education at Michigan State University. He was previously on the faculty at Arizona State University. Paris received a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He spent 6 years as an English Language Arts teacher in California, Arizona and the Dominican Republic before entering graduate school. Paris is also Associate Director of the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate program of Middlebury College. He has published research in numberous journals including the Harvard Educational Review, Educational Researcher, and the International… Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. He has recently published a book entitled Language Across Difference with Cambridge University Press (2011).