Research Interests
My research interests focus on issues surrounding the learning of English as a second/additional language, particularly issues regarding identity construction in and through language learning, power dynamics, and language ideologies. I investigate how these social dynamics are constituted in/as interaction, using fine-grained discourse analysis
Research Projects
Past
Close analysis of discourse involving adult immigrants to the U.S.
Current
I am creating a searchable database comprised of texts and video-recorded interactions produced by members of the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS). I will then conduct linguistic analysis of how INSS members define social sustainability, focusing on word frequencies, word strings, metaphoric characterizations of social sustainability, nominalizations, clause transitivity, among other linguistic features.
Teaching Projects
Current
ENGL 3162 Language and the Virtual World
In preparation
ENGL 4267 Identity, Social Interaction and Community in Digital Spaces