About Me:
A little bit about my research:
My dissertation, titled “(Re)Historicizing the Teaching Practicum: The Impact of Teacher Education on Composition 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 currently teach the First Year Writing Sequence at Baruch College and am a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Bronx Community College where I am developing writing intensive training curricula for teachers-in-training across disciplines. I also co-chair the Graduate Center's Composition Rhetoric Community, a group that hosts readings and workshop by composition-rhetoric scholars for those working in comp-rhet across CUNY. My work is published in The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, the Center for the Humanities, and the Covid-19 Impact Project (forthcoming). I have previously taught writing and literature courses at Brooklyn College and am teaching a course titled "Life Writing for Artists" at the School of Visual Arts in summer 2021.
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 created a weekly book club where we discussed essays, fiction, and poetry from the Civil Rights movement.