Education:
- M.A. in English, summa cum laude, emphasis in Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2012.
- Linguistics Institute. University of Colorado at Boulder, 2011.
- B.A. in English, summa cum laude, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2010.
Research and Areas of Expertise in Rhetoric and Composition and Applied Linguistics:
- Electronic Portfolios, e-portfolioing
- Graduate Project, “Let’s Begin (E-)Portfolioing: A Process-Based Approach to Using Portfolios in First-Year Writing Courses.” University of North Carolina at Charlotte. June, 2012.
- Technology, Social Networking, Knotting, and Writing
- Literacy Studies with an emphasis in Digital Literacies
- 1.5 Languages; English as a Second/Additional language
- Alzheimer’s Speech and Gesture
- Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis & Pragmatic Studies
Publications:
- Co-authored with Dr. Boyd Davis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte & Dr. Margaret Maclagan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. “Pragmatics in dementia discourse: Applications and issues,” Advances in pragmatics and discourse analysis,Chapter 3. Cambridge Scholar Publishing. 2014.
- “The Autonomy of Language in Children’s Literature: Three Stages of Metalinguistic Scaffolding.”Linguistic Society of America, 36 (2). 55-65. 2012.
Presentations:
- Co-presenter with Dr. Tony Scott, Syracuse University, NY; and Dr. Nancy Welch, University of Vermont, Burlington. “A land Without a People: How Composition’s Naturalistic Metaphors Leave the Body Behind.” The Public Work of Composition, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 15, 2013.
- Co-presenter with Dr. Boyd Davis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and Margaret Maclagan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. “Ways that Persons with Dementia Keep their Conversational Partner Involved.” Pragmatics Conference of the Americas, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Oct. 21, 2012.
- “Knotlinging: Linguistics from the Network to the Knotwork.” Pragmatics Conference of the Americas, UNC Charlotte, Oct. 20, 2012.
- “Children’s Literature, Autonomy, and Metalinguistic Scaffolding.” Children’s Literature Association, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA. 2011.
- “A Linguistic Approach to Children’s Literature.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. Calloway Gardens, GA, 2011.
- “The Phases, Stages, and Spaces of Kabuki and Shakespeare: An Intercultural Contact Zone.” University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2011.
- “A Discourse Analysis Approach to (Re)Considering and Analyzing the ways Writing Tutors Work: Controlling Power and the Power to Control” English Graduate Student Association, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2010.
Courses Taught:
- UWRT 1101 Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I
- UWRT 1102 Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts II
- UWRT 1103 Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I & II
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