Academic Initiatives and Writing Program Administration
In my mentorship and administrative work, as in my scholarship and teaching, I apply feminist and antiracist rhetorical expertise and lived transcultural experience as a white woman to dismantle white supremacist patriarchy and co-construct more equitable systems.
Image, courtesy of Wix, features the ground floor courtyard of a large building where people are working together at round tables from the perspective of someone standing on the top floor looking down.
Administrative Achievements
Spotlight
"Reading for the Civic Good"
In 2021, I won a grant from the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland to develop a rhetorical reading curriculum to train students and faculty. The curriculum equips students to use different reading strategies in different rhetorical situations. Two examples include "deep reading," which ensures that readers know how to attend carefully to what is being said and in what context before entering the argument, and "lateral reading online" as a crucial tool for digital literacy that helps students understand the credibility of online sources. Taken altogether, these rhetorical reading strategies equip students to participate ethically in a pluralistic, digitally-mediated public sphere. This curriculum is now recommended to all first-year writing faculty.