Dr. Edwin Dartey

Dr. Edwin Dartey is an Assistant Professor of English at BSU. His research and teaching focus on multilingual writing and writing studies, with additional interests in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, African/Africana studies, and postcolonial studies.

His scholarship examines the intersections of language, writing, identity, and power in multilingual and culturally diverse contexts. His work considers how race, class, coloniality, and Indigenous knowledge systems shape writing practices and language education, as well as how community-based and non-Western epistemologies can inform more equitable writing pedagogies.

Dr. Dartey’s publications have appeared in journals including English for Specific Purposes, Current Issues in Language Planning, International Journal of Multilingualism, and the Journal of Asian and African Studies. He is co-editor of Entanglements: Between Decolonial and Southernizing Linguistics (Multilingual Matters, 2025), and his additional book chapters have appeared with academic presses including Bloomsbury and Routledge. His work has been supported by grants from the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, and his doctoral dissertation received multiple honors, including the inaugural Fox Endowment Award from Penn State’s J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School.

Dr. Dartey teaches courses in first-year writing, rhetoric and composition, multilingual writing, and linguistics. His teaching brings together writing, language, culture, and communication, with particular attention to the diverse linguistic and cultural resources students bring to the classroom. He is committed to creating learning environments that support students as writers and critical thinkers while encouraging them to engage thoughtfully with language, knowledge, and diverse perspectives.