FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS
Abusalim, Anoud (Senior Instructor)
My research interests include teaching composition for L2 writers, developing L2 instruction, instruction and curriculum design, and excellence in teaching
Aghasi, Maya (Assistant Professor)
My research focuses on postcolonial contexts and conflict situations, and includes historical fiction, immigrant narratives, and representations of trauma. My work encompasses Islamic feminism and foregrounds gender analysis.
Ahmed, Khawlah (Associate Professor)
My research focus is on theories and approaches to teaching and learning, incorporating technology that may facilitate learning and teaching, curriculum development, cultural communication and culturally relevant pedagogy.
Ajšić, Adnan (Assistant Professor)
My research interests include analytical and pedagogical applications of corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, language ideologies, language policy and planning, sociolinguistics, and sociocultural approaches to second language acquisition.
Al-Issa, Ahmad (Professor)
My research examines issues relevant to language and identity, language policy and planning, language and culture, global English, and intercultural pragmatics.
Bahloul, Maher (Associate Professor)
My research addresses issues in theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and pedagogy.
Bilkikozen, Neslihan (Assistant Professor)
My research interests include critical applied linguistics, critical issues in second language writing, culture and curriculum, language and identity, and academic literacy development in ESL/EFL.
Bou Mehdi, Randa (Senior Instructor)
My research interests include plagiarism in the writing classroom, using technology in the classroom and feedback methods.
Buck, Rachel (Assistant Professor)
My research interests include reading and literacy studies, genre pedagogies, professional and technical writing, writing program administration and first-year composition.
Craven, Laurence (Senior Instructor)
My research interests include written corrective feedback, CAF measures and technology in the classroom.
Curabba, Brad (Senior Instructor)
My research interests include evaluating the effectiveness of reflective writing-academic literacy.
El Bakhour, Huda (Instructor)
My research interests include writing centers, academic writing and creative influential writing.
Eleftheriou, Maria (Assistant Professor)
My research interests include traditional, contemporary and alternative tutor training models; writing center assessment; online tutoring and teaching practices; and code-switching in the Writing Center.
El-Sakran, Tharwat M. (Professor)
My research utilizes a discourse analysis approach in examining textual rhetorical structures and their communicative functions, with a view toward implementing findings in English for Specific Purposes teaching materials.
Fedtke, Jana (Assistant Professor)
My research interests include transnational literatures with a focus on South Asia, gender studies and digital cultural productions.
Fredrick, Daniel (Associate Professor)
My research interests include classical rhetoric, Cicero, the art of delivery in public speaking, Latin, orality and literacy, composition (EFL), rhetorical theory and criticism, and literature (classical and world).
Gandhi, Neena (Associate Professor)
My research interests include postcolonial theory and postcolonial literature.
Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan (Professor)
My research is inter- and multidisciplinary. Having specialized in literary and critical theory—an academically vibrant field that draws on numerous disciplines such as anthropology, history, political science, postcolonial theory, as well as linguistics and literary studies—my research expands to studies of narrative theory, women’s writings, gender, colonization, diaspora and ethnicity.
Gregersen, Tammy (Professor)
My research examines individual differences, nonverbal communication and positive psychology—all in second language learning and teaching.
Highland, Kristen Doyle (Assistant Professor)
My research interests focus on eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature, print culture and book history, and digital humanities.
Horger, Christopher (Senior Instructor)
My research interests include rhetoric, pragmatics and cross-cultural communications.
McAllister, Brian J. (Assistant Professor)
My research examines modern and contemporary art and literature, focusing particularly on aesthetic disorientations of space and time.
McCarthy, Philip (Assistant Professor)
My research focuses on designing and applying computation tools, some of which evaluates text and other software functions as intelligent tutoring systems.
Munday, Susan (Assistant Professor)
My research interests include economics of education, cultural studies, and international and corporate communication.
Nunn, Roger (Professor)
My research interests include holistic learning, academic literacy, classroom method-in-use, non-blind journal paper review, text and discourse analysis, intercultural communication, the meaning of objectivity, systemic linguistics and contrapuntal readings of literature.
Reiff, Marija (Assistant Professor)
My research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature and the conflicts between secular and sacred values. In particular, my research focuses on the role of religion in modernizing the late-Victorian stage.
Sayed, Sana (Senior Instructor)
My research interests include Victorian literature, gender and identity, teaching theories in composition at the post-secondary level, contemporary global issues, and women and literature.
Sayidina, Aisha (Assistant Professor)
My research interests include the impact of culture on literacies, thought patterns and discourse organization.
Shim, Ji Young (Assistant Professor)
My research interests include, but are not limited to, bilingualism, code-switching, psycholinguistics, syntax, morpho-syntax and syntax-semantic interface.
VanderPyl, Gregory (Instructor)
My research interests include linguistics, academic discourse and etymology.
Weagle, Christopher (Senior Instructor)
My research interests include higher education research, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), academic writing and creative writing (poetry).
