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Selected publications include:

Transforming Teaching Through Reflective Writing Experiences, contributor, volumes 1-4.

“Translingual Pedagogy, Rhetorical Listening, and Multimodal Experiences in a First Year Writing Conference that Fosters Intercultural Learning,” contributor, in the Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies and Emerging Pedagogies, vol. 4, no. 3 (February 2018), pp. 714-740.

I serve on the executive board of the Michigan College English Association, and have chaired several annual conferences.

As Associate Professor in the department of Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures at Michigan State University, I seek to develop culturally-sustaining and asset-based pedagogies (Paris and Alim 2014) for first-year writing students, a population which includes many international and first-generation domestic students.

Before returning to MSU, I lived in Paris for 25 years and earned my doctorate at the Sorbonne. My thesis, written in French, was a Russian-American influence study framed by Mikhail Bakhtin‘s concepts of literary polyphony, dialogism and heteroglossia. I am fascinated by linguistic and cultural intersections, and the translingual, transcultural, transnational and translocal student populations in Preparation for College Writing are a limitless field of inquiry, as we explore the students’ diverse “funds of knowledge” (Moll, Amanti, Neff and Ganzalez 1992).

I write and perform poetry, and create art with paint, charcoal and collage. Many of my projects combine visual art and words.