I am a community-engaged writing and literacy researcher and teacher. I work through ethnographic and participatory research and public arts and humanities projects to study and support students’ movements across contexts of learning and stages of education. I am the co-founder and co-director of the Narratio Fellowship, a storytelling and educational pipeline program for resettled refugee youth, and the founder and director of the College of Arts & Sciences’s Engaged Humanities Network , which seeds, supports, and fosters exchanges across publicly-engaged research, teaching, and creative projects in pursuit of more inclusive, interconnected, and just communities and institutions.

My book, Literacy & Mobility (Routledge), received the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication Advancement of Knowledge Award, presented annually for the empirical research publication in the previous two years that most advances writing studies. The book follows first-generation college students from different tracks of English in a public high school through their first years at research universities, community colleges, and full-time jobs to show how they draw upon multiple literacies and linguistic resources to both accommodate and transform conventions of reading and writing.

I teach public and place-based writing and rhetoric courses that ask students to reflect on and critique ideologies of language and literacy and the ways in which these inform everyday practices, identities, communities, and power relations. I also teach publicly engaged humanities courses that theorize community-engaged scholarship and creative work and that engage participatory, action-based methodologies for research, coalition building, and collective action.

Current and Future Courses:

WRT 105 Introduction to College Writing: Composing College and Career (FA 14)

WRT 255 Advanced Argumentative Writing (FA 16)

WRT 303 Research Writing: Working Literacy in the Archives (SP 16)

WRT 308 Style: Dynamic Elements of Style (SP 16)

WRT 400 Writing, Transportation, Justice (SU 16)

WRT 424 Studies in Writing, Rhetoric and Identity: Writing Self and Space (SP 15)

WRT 424 Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity: Trajectories of Writing (SP 17)

WRT 426 Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology: Rhetorics of Futurity: Utopia, Science Fiction, and City Planning (SP 17)

WRT 428 Studies in Composition, Rhetoric and Literacy: Reading-Writing Networks (FA 14)

WRT 440 Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing: (Un)Doing English (FA 15)

CCR 635 Advanced Research Practices (FA 17)

CCR 651 Language, Literacy, and Mobility (FA 15)

CCR 760 Advanced Studies in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric: Ethnography of Literacy: Mobility, Complexity, Materiality (SP 15)