I earned a BA in English from SUNY Stony Brook in 2003 and
worked as the local news director for an independent community
radio station in Richmond, VA, before returning to New York City in
2007 to pursue a career in education. I finished an MA in
Language and Literacy at CUNY City College in 2009 and I am
currently working on my DA in English at St. John’s. I have
worked as a writing consultant in the writing centers at Laguardia
Community College and the City College Center for Worker
Education. I also volunteered as an adult literacy tutor at
the New York Public Library’s Aguilar Branch in East Harlem.
While completing my MA, I was the recipient of the 2007 Marilyn
Sternglass Writing Award and the 2009 Stanley B. Jacoff Memorial
Fellowship from the English department at City College.
I currently live in Washington Heights with my husband and two
cats, and we are expecting a baby boy in the summer of 2010.
My interests include composition studies and
critical pedagogy, as well as digital literacy, postcolonial
studies, sociolinguistics, and critical race theory. My
future plans include teaching writing at the first-year college
level in New York City while writing and researching on topics
related to writing studies.
Research:
Evaluating the WAC Faculty
Fellows/Writing Fellows Program 2010:
As co-investigator with Dr. Anne Ellen Geller,
I am collecting data in the form of course work, interviews, and
interpersonal communication from participants in a WAC pilot
program at St. John’s during the spring 2010 semester. In the
future, Dr. Geller and I hope to present the findings of this
research at conferences and publish on this topic.
Examining Authority in Open Source
Writing Environments 2009-2010:
This study is designed to evaluate the
experiences of first-time contributors to the online, open-source
encyclopedia Wikipedia. I am using this information to think
about the ways in which Wikipedia can be used in the composition
classroom. I will be presenting findings of this research at
the IWAC Conference 2010 in Bloomington, Indiana.
Meeting in the Middle
2009:
As co-investigator with Dr. Octavia Davis, our
research focuses on best practices for embedded tutoring. We
specifically looked at what kinds of intervention with an embedded
tutor result in revisions to student writing, visits and continued
use of the Writing Center. During the fall 2009 semester, I
worked as an embedded tutor in three sections of Dr. Davis’ First
Year Writing course.
Conferences:
National Council of Teachers of English 2007,
New York, NY.
National Council of Teachers of English 2009,
Philadelphia PA.
Northeast Writing Centers Association
Conference 2010, Boston MA. “Creating a New Image: Re-imagining the
Undergraduate Writing Consultant as Writing Fellow.”
Northeast Writing Centers Association
Conference 2010, Boston MA. “Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered: When
the Best of Intentions Confront the Ugly Truth, or Inventorying
Privilege in Community-based Writing Center and Academic
Service-Learning”
International Writing Across the Curriculum
Conference 2010, Bloomington IN. "A New Frontier: Teaching with
Wikipedia."
Northeast Writing Centers Association
Conference 2010, Boston, MA. “Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered:
When the Best of Intentions Confront the Ugly Truth, or
Inventorying Privilege in Community-based Writing Center and
Academic Service-Learning”
International Writing Across the Curriculum
Conference 2010, Bloomington IN. "A New Frontier: Teaching with
Wikipedia."