Teaching & Mentoring

Overall, I have a total of 13 years of teaching experience, six full years in linguistics and seven full years in first-year composition. I have taught in public and private universities, including both two- and four-year community college and college settings. I also have six years of student mentoring experience in linguistics.

Teaching: Linguistics

Thus far, in linguistics, I have taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Most recently, I have taught 4 different courses in linguistics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. These courses are:

• Language and Social Interaction
• The Structure of English
  
• English Grammar and Usagee
• Language, Gender, and Sexuality in the US

Previously, I have taught linguistics courses at The Ohio State University, Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Chicago, North Central College, and Rice University. These courses include:

• Introduction to Linguistics (OSU, NIU, Rice)
  
• Language, Race, and Ethnicity (OSU, NCC)
  
• Language, Gender, and Sexuality (OSU)
  
• Language and Social Identity in the USA (OSU)
  
• Dialects of US English (OSU)
  
• Sociolinguistics (UIC, Rice)
  
• Phonetics (Rice)

Each of these courses focuses on fostering an appreciation of regional, social, and ethnic dialect awareness and diversity among students.

In 2010, I received an Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Department of Linguistics for exceptional teaching of these courses during the course of my time as an instructor at the Ohio State University.

Mentoring: Linguistics

In addition, I was actively involved in mentoring undergraduate students via my involvement in the Ohio State University Department of Linguistics Undergraduate Internship Program. Between 2005 and 2010, I mentored 8 undergraduates, 7 of whom have worked with me on my Century of Language Change in Columbus (CLCC) and Central Ohio Dialect Survey projects.

More recently, during academic year 2017-2018, I mentored a group of five undergraduate teaching assistants while teaching a large, 150-seat section of “Introduction to Linguistics” at Rice University. In addition, I mentored a 6th undergraduate teaching assistant, who worked with me as a grader in my “Phonetics” course at Rice.

Teaching: Composition

In regards to Composition, I have taught both Composition I and Composition II, a variety of times at a variety of institutions. Most recently, I taught Rhetoric and Composition, a Composition I course, at Pennsylvania State University.

Previously, the schools for whom I have taught Composition I and II include: Bloomsburg University, College of Dupage, Northern Illinois University, Benedictine University, North Central College, Waubonsee Community College, and Joliet Junior College. I also worked for a semester as a TRIO SSS Writing Specialist at Lock Haven University, where I provided one-on-one composition-writing support to students.