Writing program administration.

Writing centers.

Multimodality.

Ethics of labor.

My main research interests stem from my history of writing center work. Through the guidance of mentors during my undergraduate studies, I first started working as a tutor in the writing center and discovered the field of Rhetoric/Composition. I immediately knew I wanted to pursue a degree within the field of Rhet/Comp in order to serve students. 

In addition to writing center work, research areas I’ve worked in include first-year writing, writing across the curriculum, as well as the primary focus areas of my dissertation: writing program administration, labor, and multimodality.

My dissertation work is centered around exploring the perceptions, views, value, and in turn, implementation, of multimodality by writing program administrators (WPAs) from universities across the U.S. From the beginning, my goal was including voices from WPAs at all types of contexts--doctoral universities, liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, community colleges--in order to understand how context affects curricular choices and guide the use of modes within program decisions.