Dr. Peggy Semingson is an Associate Professor of TESOL in the Department of Linguistics and TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington and currently serves as the Interim Director of the UTA Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence (CRTLE). She has held the TESOL faculty role since January 2025, following tenure and promotion as an Associate Professor in Curriculum and Instruction in 2014, after beginning her UTA career as an Assistant Professor in 2008. Dr. Semingson earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and an MEd in Reading Education from Texas State University in 2004. Dr. Semingson has received numerous distinctions, including The University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers (2025), the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities’ Racial Justice and Equity Program Award (2021), induction into UTA’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers (2019), the President’s Award for Transformative Online Education (2019), the International Literacy Association’s Jerry Johns Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award (2017), and the UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2013). She also holds multiple professional certifications, including the Quality Matters Teaching Online Certificate, Quality Matters Master Reviewer Certification, Peer Reviewer and Applying the QM Rubric credentials, Texas K-12 Teacher Certifications, and the Online Teaching and Advanced Online Teaching Certificates from the Online Learning Consortium. She has received funding for research from Harvard University and has published in the esteemed Reading Research Quarterly.