About Me:
A little bit about my research:
My dissertation, titled “Who Are Our Teachers? The Impact of the Teaching Practicum on Writing Studies,” is a project that examines the understudied history of the teaching practicum for writing instructors. I am interested in the historiography of the practicum—how this course has been written about and historicized—and how its history continues to perpetuate myths about literacy that still pervade writing studies. Rethinking the scope of the practicum’s history and the often contested purpose of this course, I am interested in reimagining it as a site that can generate institutional and disciplinary critique. Moreover, I see this course as offering possibilities for building historical continuities, political implications, and connections between the past and present work of writing instructors.
A little bit about my work experience:
I am an Assistant Professor at Kingsborough Community College as well as the English Academic Coordinator at the Kingsborough Learning Center. I also am a member of the CUNY Digital History Archive’s Education and Outreach Committee. My work is published in The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, the Center for the Humanities, and the Covid-19 Impact Project. I have previously taught writing and literature courses at Brooklyn College, Baruch College, Barnard College, and the School for Visual Arts.
Before moving to New York City for a master’s in English at Columbia University in 2013, I worked as an administrative assistant at Philadelphia FIGHT’s Institute for Community Justice, a reentry center for formerly incarcerated people in downtown Philadelphia. At FIGHT I taught career and digital literacy workshops, as well as facilitated a weekly book club where we discussed essays, fiction, and poetry from the Civil Rights movement.
You can download my CV here.