I serve as Director of First-Year Writing in the Writing Program and as a senior instructor in the English Department, where I teach and provide support in courses on writing, rhetoric, and public speaking, as well as writing pedagogy. In addition to my work in the English Department, I coordinate the Foundations of College Writing Program, first-year directed self writing placement, and program assessment. I am fortunate in my work to collaborate with students, teachers, and administrators from all around the campus.

Before coming to CWRU, I was an attorney specializing in representation of injured and disabled workers. In 2011, I decided to change careers and pursue my PhD in English (Rhetoric & Writing) at Bowling Green State University, where I became intensely interested in the ways first-year college students develop as writers. My dissertation, Affective Possibilities for Rhetoric & Writing: How We Might Self-Assess Potentiality in Composition, explored how student writers evaluate their own writing and seeks a useful definition of “potentiality” to help students recognize and consider their capacities for growth and development into future writing projects and writing selves.

At CWRU, I continue to research writing assessment, the growth and potentiality of emerging writers, and the ways in which we use writing to interact as humans in the writing classroom and in our real lives.