Part-time Lecturer Contact Information lynchren@uw.edu Office Hours M 4-5; W 12-1 or by appointment Fields of Interest African Applied Linguistics Decolonial Discourse Analysis Drama Language Pedagogy Postcolonial TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Biography M.A. TESOL, University of Washington, 2013 B.A. Anthropology and Theater, Grinnell College, 2008 Research Selected Research Lynch, Renee. Decolonizing Collaboration in English Language Teaching: Teacher Identity and Tanzania. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.Adviser: Suhanthie Motha Lynch, R., Young, J. C., Jowaisas, C., Sam, J., Boakye-Achampong, S., Garrido, M., & Rothschild, C. (2023). “The tears don’t give you funding”: Data neocolonialism in development in the Global South. Third World Quarterly, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2166482 Lynch, R. and Motha, S. (2023). Epistemological entanglements: Decolonizing understandings of identity and knowledge in English language teaching. International Journal of Educational Research, 118, 102118–. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102118 Lynch, R., Young, J.C., Jowaisas, C., Boakye-Achampong, S. & Sam, J. (2022). What makes an ideal partner? African libraries and neoliberal discourses in international development. Applied Linguistics, 43(5), 958–977. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amac014 Lynch, R., Young, J.C., Boakye-Achampong, S., Jowaisas, C., Sam, J, Norlander, B. (2020) Benefits of crowdsourcing for libraries: A case study from Africa. IFLA Journal. doi:10.1177/0340035220944940 Young, J.C., Lynch, R., Boakye-Achampong, S., Jowaisas, C., Sam, J., & Norlander, B. (2020). VGI in the global South: Barriers to local implementation of mapping projects across Africa. GeoJournal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10184-6 Lynch, R., Young, J. C., Jowaisas, C., Rothschild, C., Garrido, M., Sam, J., & Boakye-Achampong, S. (2020). Data challenges for public libraries: African perspectives and the social context of knowledge. Information Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266666920907118 "Advancing Library Visibility in Africa," Information School, Technology and Social Change Group, University of Washington Courses Taught Spring 2024ENGL 131 V: Composition: ExpositionWinter 2024ENGL 131 R: Composition: ExpositionAutumn 2023ENGL 131 O: Composition: ExpositionENGL 563 A: Research Methods in Language and RhetoricSpring 2023ENGL 131 A3: Composition: ExpositionWinter 2023ENGL 575 A: Pedagogy and Grammar in Teaching English as a Second LanguageAutumn 2021ENGL 571 A: Theory and Practice on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
