Her research investigates the ideological, interactional, and affective aspects of language learning through language socialization and discourse analytic approaches. Wright Fogle is the author of Second language socialization and learner agency: Talk in three adoptive families (Multilingual Matters) and has forthcoming articles in the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education (with Kelly Moser) and the Journal of Language and Sexuality. In 2017 she will be an invited plenary speaker at the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society graduate student conference and keynote speaker at the 2nd Symposium of Language Policy in the Family, the Preschool, and the School at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is a former Fulbright Fellow (Russia) and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ukraine).