I am an Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University in Chicago, where I teach undergraduate and graduate students in writing, writing and language teacher education, and genre and discourse related issues. My research focuses on second language writing, genre and discourse studies, English language policies and politics (particularly related to writing), and disciplinary writing development.
Articles
"Press 1 for English": Textual and ideological networks in a newspaper debate on U.S. language policy, Discourse & Society (2009)
This article examines 180 texts that together form a newspaper-mediated debate of language policy in...
The construction of author voice by editorial board members (with Paul Kei Matsuda), Written Communication (2009)
Voice in academic writing: The rhetorical construction of author identity in blind manuscript review. (with Paul Kei Matsuda), English for Specific Purposes (2007)
Some researchers have argued that voice is irrelevant to academic writing and that the importance...
Researching first and second language genre learning: A comparative review and a look ahead, Journal of Second Language Writing (2006)
With genre now viewed as a fundamental element of writing, both second language writing and...
Expressions of disciplinarity and individuality in a multimodal genre., Computers and Composition (2005)
Recent research has illuminated some of the ways in which multilingual writers project multiple identities...