Academic Initiatives and Writing Program Administration
In my mentorship and administrative work, as in my scholarship and teaching, I apply feminist and antiracist rhetorical expertise and lived transcultural experience as a white woman to dismantle white supremacist patriarchy and co-construct more equitable systems.
Image, courtesy of Wix, features the ground floor courtyard of a large building where people are working together at round tables from the perspective of someone standing on the top floor looking down.
Administrative Achievements
As Assistant Director of the Academic Writing Program from 2020-2021 and in other roles within the program starting in 2018, I helped redesign the curriculum and train faculty to support core values of antiracist pedagogy and rhetorical instruction for civic good.
I was invited to help found the BookLab at the University of Maryland from its launch in 2018 to 2020. BookLab is the English department’s makerspace, letterpress printing studio, library, and center for the book arts.
Center for Teaching and Scholarship,
Mills College
I was invited to help found the Center for Teaching and Scholarship at Mills College in Oakland, California to support faculty growth in pedagogy and scholarship.
Multilingual Services,
Mills College
After tutoring multilingual students in the program for two years, I was promoted to program coordinator. As program coordinator, I developed academic programming, delivered workshops, and ran tutoring services to support multilingual undergraduate and graduate students at Mills College.
Spotlight
"Reading for the Civic Good"
In 2021, I won a grant from the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland to develop a rhetorical reading curriculum to train students and faculty. The curriculum equips students to use different reading strategies in different rhetorical situations. Two examples include "deep reading," which ensures that readers know how to attend carefully to what is being said and in what context before entering the argument, and "lateral reading online" as a crucial tool for digital literacy that helps students understand the credibility of online sources. Taken altogether, these rhetorical reading strategies equip students to participate ethically in a pluralistic, digitally-mediated public sphere. This curriculum is now recommended to all first-year writing faculty.