Education
Ph.D. in English and Education, University of Michigan, 2021
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership, Calvin University, 2012
B.A. in English and Education, Calvin University, 2006
Academic Employment
Assistant Professor of English, Hope College, 2022-Present
Recent Courses Taught at Hope College
IDS 492: Senior Seminar
Description: This Senior Seminar course asks some of the most enduring questions faced by adults: How should I live? What habits will shape my time and experiences? What are my most important values, and how can I shape my life around the cultivation of those priorities? Where should I live? How should I spend my resources? What kinds of friends, mentors, and colleagues do I need? In this course, students will read, write, reflect, and meditate on the wisdom of others who have thought deeply about these same questions. By the end of the course, students will write their own thoughtful responses to this driving question: How should I live?
English 380: Teaching of Secondary School English
Description: This English education course combines theory and methods with internship experience in local secondary schools. Students will study and practice the teaching of language, literature, and writing.
English 113: Language and Culture
Description: This academic writing course explores the ways that language creates and interprets culture, and in particular, the ways that our attitudes about language shape our realities and mediate our understandings of ourselves and our cultures. Readings and projects will cover a range of topics including the ways that language and culture are mutually sustaining, the rhetoric of social media, and close analyses of cultural phenomena. Students will also develop research projects in areas of personal interest.
English 214: Workplace Writing
Education 288: Writing for Teachers
Other Teaching Experience
High school English teacher, Grand Rapids Christian High School, 2006-2016.
Graduate Student Instructor, First-year Writing, University of Michigan, 2016- 2017.
Recent Conference Presentations
“Change Really Does Sing: Talking about Race and Navigating Complexities in a Community-Wide Reading Program with Homegoing, New Kid, and Door of No Return. NCTE Annual Convention. Boston, MA. November 2024.
“Exploring the Hero’s Journey in a Community-Wide Reading Program: Using Greek Mythology and Marvel Superheroes to Explore Different Definitions of Heroes.” NCTE Annual Convention. Columbus, OH. November 2023.
“Critical Race Theory: What it is, what it isn’t, and why it matters in English Education. MCTE Annual Convention. East Lansing, MI. October 2023.
“Communities of Care and Slow Reading in Desperate Times.” CCC Annual convention. Chicago, IL. March 2023.
“Pulling Roots: Emergent Hospitality from the Soil of Decoloniality.” MLA International Symposium. Glasgow, Scotland. June 2022.
“Shifting Code-Meshing Pedagogies Toward Practices of Rhetorical Agency.” CCCC Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. March 2022.
“Your Voice is Kind of Muffled: Multilingual Student Talk about the Commons of Classroom Discourse.” CCCC Annual Convention. Spokane, WA. April 2021.
“Multilingual Students and the Cultural Commons of Classroom Discourse.” CCCC Annual Convention. Milwaukee, WI. March 2020 (conference cancelled due to COVID 19).
“Listening to Lost Voices: Humanizing Ethnographic Methods.” MLA International Symposium. Lisbon, Portugal. July 2019.
“Translingual Pedagogy and Student-Instructor Negotiated Projects.” Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. October 2018.
“Decolonizing Writing Studies Rhetoric: 50 Years of (De)coloniality in RTE, 1967-2017.” CCCC Annual Convention. Kansas City, MO. March 2018.
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