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M.A., English: Rhetoric, Writing, & Linguistics, University of Tennessee, 2018
B.S. English as a Second Language (ESL) Education, Johnson University, 2016
B.A. English, Johnson University, 2016
B.A. Theology, Johnson University, 2016
In both my teaching and administrative work, I am interested in locating alternative relationships and knowledges writers foster when engaging in translations across genres, modalities, and language representations. My dissertation locates these relationships across trajectories of migration and literacy in contemporary Central Asia, including borderlands regions in Northern Kazakhstan, asking how we might attune our approach to transnational literacies to locate moments of friction and displacement generated via decolonial efforts and by both seismic and micro-moments of sociolinguistic and geopolitical change.
Awards:
Chester Boeing Fritz International Research Grant, 2022
Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Reaching New Publics, 2020-2022
Hermione & Louis Brown Publication Prize, University of Washington, 2020
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, U.S. Department of State, 2018-19, Kazakhstan
Council for Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) Research Grant, 2017-18