William Heidenfeldt is a PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. His research interests include foreign language teacher education, language and identity, and second language acquisition. He has taught French language courses at UC Berkeley since 2008 and has experience teaching middle school. He is expected to receive his PhD in May 2015 with a dissertation on identity work and pedagogical decisions of secondary school L2 teachers.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS
• foreign language teacher education
• language and identity of bi/multilingual speakers
• second language acquisition and socialization
• tense, aspect, and mood selection in Romance languages
• history of Romance languages
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Romance Languages and Literatures, expected May 2015
Dissertation Title: Becoming Language Professionals: Identity Work and
Pedagogical Decisions by Secondary School L2 Teachers of Spanish and
French
Teaching Credential University of San Francisco
California Clear CLAD Multiple Subject, 2000
B.A. University of California, Berkeley
French, Summa cum laude, 1997
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Student Instructor Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Language Courses
• Spring 2015 Continuing Introductory French
• Fall 2014 Advanced Intermediate French
• Summer 2011 Introductory French in Summer Study Abroad, Paris
• Spring 2011 Advanced Intermediate French
• Spring 2010 Intermediate French
• Fall 2009 Continuing Introductory French
• Spring 2009 Continuing Introductory French
• Fall 2008 Introductory French
Reading and Composition Courses (in English)
• Summer 2014 “Speaking, Singing, and Living in a Foreign Accent”
• Summer 2013 “Language and Belonging: Memoirs and The Politics of Belonging”
• Fall 2011 “Multiple Tongues, Multiple Lives”
WILLIAM A. HEIDENFELDT
Curriculum Vitae
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures
University of California at Berkeley
Department of French
4125 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 285-7031

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Heidenfeldt
Curriculum
Vitae
Eighth Grade Teacher Corpus Christi School; Piedmont, California
• 1998-2008 Homeroom instructor of English, social studies, and religion
Coordinator of English program, grades six through eight
• 2003-2008 Member of school administrative team
Substitute Teacher Oakland Unified School District
• 1997-1998 Grades K-8
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Heidenfeldt, W. (2014). “Pride and Prestige: Reflections on the Profession by Northern
California Teachers of French and Spanish.” FLANC Connections. Foreign Language
Association of Northern California.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2011). “Writing as a Social Act: A Genre-based Approach to Writing Pedagogy in
the Foreign Language Classroom”. In Berkeley Language Center Newsletter.
http://blc.berkeley.edu/index.php/blc/post/writing_as_a_social_act_a_genre-
based_approach_to_writing_pedagogy_in_the_f/
Chapters
Heidenfeldt, W. (2015, in press). “Conflict in the Second Language Classroom: A Teacher of
Spanish Facing the Complex Dimensions of Multilingualism.” In Ulrike Jessner & Claire
Kramsch (Eds.) The Multilingual Challenge. Trends in Applied Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton
de Gruyter.
PRESENTATIONS
Conferences
Heidenfeldt, W. (2015). Reading and Composition and Foreign Language Discipline Cluster.
Breakout Session at Teaching Conference for First-Time Graduate Student Instructors,
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2014). Foreign Language Discipline Cluster. Breakout Session at Teaching
Conference for First-Time Graduate Student Instructors, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2014). Who We Are and What We Do: Survey Reflections of California World
Language Teachers. Poster Presentation at American Association of Applied Linguistics
Annual Conference, Portland, OR.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2013 & 2014). Strategies for Effective and Efficient Grading. Breakout Session at
Teaching Conference for First-Time Graduate Student Instructors, UC Berkeley, Berkeley,
CA.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2013). Who We Are and What We Do: Survey Reflections of Northern California
World Language Teachers. Paper at Foreign Language Association of Northern California,
Chabot College, Hayward, CA.

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A.
Heidenfeldt
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Heidenfeldt, W. (2012). Writing as a Social Act: A Genre-based Approach to Writing Pedagogy in
the Foreign Language Classroom. Paper at University of California Consortium for
Language Learning and Teaching, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2010). Fashion (Victims): A Translinguistic/Translingual Discussion of Fashion in
Contemporary Music Videos. Paper at Southwest Association of Language Learning
Technology, Reed University, Portland, OR.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2014). Foreign Language Discipline Cluster. Breakout Session at Teaching
Conference for First-Time Graduate Student Instructors, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2013 & 2014). Strategies for Effective and Efficient Grading. Breakout Session at
Teaching Conference for First-Time Graduate Student Instructors, UC Berkeley, Berkeley,
CA.
INVITED TALKS
Heidenfeldt, W. (2014). Transformations in the World Language Classroom. Salesian High School,
Richmond, CA.
Heidenfeldt W. (2014). [Language] Teaching as a Kind of Performance. Found in Translation
Townsend Center for the Humanities. UC Berkeley.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2013). Who We Are and What We Do: Survey Reflections of California World
Language Teachers. Bishop O’Dowd High School, Oakland, CA.
Heidenfeldt, W. (2012). Comment motiver nos élèves...et leurs profs. Éducation Française Bay
Area/French Education in the Bay Area, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
• Retreat Coordinator and Leader, Faculty and Eighth Grade, Corpus Christi School, Pied-
mont, CA (2012-present)
• Manuscript Reviewer (2011-present): L2 Journal
• Graduate Student Representative, Department of French, (2011-2012)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• Research Assistant, Professor Richard Kern, UC Berkeley (2014)
• Program Assessment Research Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning, UC Berkeley
(2012-2014)
• Research Assistant, Graduate Student Instructor Teaching and Resource Center, UC Berke-
ley (2014)
• Graduate Fellow, Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty, Graduate Division, UC
Berkeley (2013)
• Department of French Librarian, UC Berkeley (2012)
• Language Curriculum Development, Department of French, UC Berkeley (2009, 2010)

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AWARDS
• Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley; Berkeley, CA (2013-2014)
• Mentored Research Award, U.C. Berkeley; Berkeley, CA (2012-2013)
• Instructional Research Fellowship, Berkeley Language Center, U.C. Berkeley (2010)
o Project title: Writing as a Social Act: A Genre-based Approach to Writing Pedagogy in
the Foreign Language Classroom
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• Foreign Language Association of Northern California -- 2013-present
• American Association for Applied Linguistics -- 2010-present
• Modern Language Association – 2009-present
LANGUAGES
• English: native proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speech
• French: near-native proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speech
• Spanish: advanced proficiency in reading, writing, listening; intermediate proficiency in
speech
• Italian: advanced proficiency in reading and writing, intermediate proficiency in listening
and speech
REFERENCES
Richard Kern, Dissertation Chair, Professor of French and Director of Berkeley Language Center,
University of California at Berkeley; rkern@berkeley.edu
Claire Kramsch, Professor of German and Education, University of California at Berkeley;
ckramsch@berkeley.edu
Mairi McLaughlin, Associate Professor of French, University of California at Berkeley;
mclaughlin@berkeley.edu
Katie Murphy, Principal, Corpus Christi School, Piedmont, CA; kmurphy@csdo.org, (510) 530-4056
Seda Chavdarian, Senior Lecturer and Acting Director of the Language Program, Department of
French, University of California at Berkeley; sedac@berkeley.edu