As a librarian and professor, I spend an increasing amount of time teaching reading skills of text from different types of publications. Oftentimes, undergraduates – both Camino and traditional undergraduates -- find materials but require guidance reading the texts, evaluating the information, and integrating information from authoritative sources into their assignments. IUP’s courses in literacy and composition theory would help me gain a deeper understanding of the challenges undergraduates encounter so that I am prepared to provide them with the appropriate guidance and instruction. I would be amenable to studying both monolingual and bi-/multilingual populations.

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Camino students use academic content to apply political, philosophical, psychological, sociological, and other theories to their writing and presenting assignments.  As bi-/multilingual writers, some express their transnational loyalties and identities to the U.S. and their native country in their essays and journal entries. A few have lived in several countries, developing transnational loyalties and identities to the all the countries where they have resided. Researching and writing about identity, power, and the multilingual writer would be another interesting topic to pursue as a qualitative study examining and analyzing student writing samples.

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As I advance my studies in IUP's doctoral program in Composition and Applied Linguistics, I would like to explore the intersection of composition theory and applied linguistics. I am also interested in researching critical pedagogy, focusing on writing in transnational contexts.