Teaching Spotlight

The Teaching Spotlight series highlights excellence in pedagogy at Swarthmore College.  

Jenn Phuong is featured in our second Teaching Spotlight. Nominated by students, who called her a “fun, engaging and inclusive” teacher, Professor Phuong is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Educational Studies who teaches at the "intersection of disability, race, and language in U.S. educational contexts using interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and methodologies that emerge from applied linguistics, disability studies in education, and critical pedagogies."

Students appreciate her "charismatic and knowledgeable" teaching style, and liberatory approach to pedagogy and mentoring. Senior Karina Flores wrote in, “As a future educator, Professor Phuong has helped shape the way I think about my own teaching philosophy, especially when it comes to teaching students with disabilities and emergent bilingual students.”

Read on to learn about Phuong's teaching philosophy in our March 2025 Teaching Spotlight.