I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Rhetoric and Composition. My scholarly interests include reflective pedagogies, teaching with technologies, and qualitative research methods. My dissertation, Practices of Value: A Materialist View of Going Public with Student Writing, is a direct outgrowth of my experiences working with students in the composition [...]

Graduate Courses taken at the University of Massachusetts Boston EN 475 Seminar for Tutors EN 610 Teaching of Composition EN 619 Writing for the Public EN 697B Teachers Researching Literacy EN 697C Perspectives on Composition AP 622* Cross-Cultural Perspectives *Taken in the Applied Linguistics Department Graduate Courses taken at the University of Massachusetts Amherst EN [...]

My scholarship, located in questions of digital literacies, is a move to bring theory to the classroom as much as it is a move to bring the classroom to theory. In an attempt to better understand my pedagogical approaches, my students’ experiences, and the ideological forces that shape academic settings, I use a teacher-research approach [...]

While teaching at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (also in Boston), I worked with many students who were first generation college students and came from ethnically diverse backgrounds. These students, with their dedication to learning and willingness to engage new literacy practices, taught me that teaching is about [...]