With a background in rhetoric, composition, and applied linguistics, I am interested in how genre systems perpetuate inequalities within academic, professional, and activist communities. My research has investigated how seemingly mundane genres such as academic standards, government regulations, job market materials, publishing guidelines, portfolio rubrics, and technical/industry manuals uphold systems of power across transnational scales.

This interest in genre systems has emerged through collaborative research with technical translators in Central Asia and other transnational contexts. These collaborations have revealed how translators are often uniquely positioned to make anticolonial interventions into taken-for-granted writing systems and language policies. Increasingly, my research has also turned to queer approaches to technical and multimodal translation, through which I draw from my own communities’ rhetorical traditions for genre analysis. My research has appeared in Across the Disciplines, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Technical Communication and Social Justice, and multiple edited collections.

At SU, I teach classes in composition studies, translingual and transnational literacies, queer rhetorics, World Englishes, technical communication, and writing in the disciplines (WID). Across my courses, I invite students to consider how research on writing systems might enhance careers in secondary education, government, civil and foreign service, non-profit work, and myriad other industries and activist communities beyond academia.

Transnational literacies; Translingual orientations to writing studies; Queer rhetorics; Critical applied linguistics/TESOL.

• Chester Boeing Fritz International Research Grant, 2022
• Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Reaching New Publics, 2020-2022
• Hermione & Louis Brown Publication Prize, 2020
• Fulbright – Kazakhstan, 2018-2019
• Council for Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) Research Grant, 2017-18.