MLA Delegate assembly
I'm the elected representative of the MLA Delegate Assembly for the Mid-Atlantic Region. I'm also serving on the MLA's Committee on Information Technology. Thank you for voting!
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I'm honored to have been nominated for the MLA Delegate Assembly as a Regional Delegate for the Mid-Atlantic Region. I grew up outside of Philadelphia and I have close connections to many of its universities through my graduate work at Temple, post-graduate work at Penn, and the many people I know at local colleges and universities.
I can't wait to join the big-picture conversation about academia and language learning. I'm particularly interested in:
1) Supporting Careers. I've met so many talented, intelligent, and hard-working people in graduate school, who have so much to offer the academy and the world beyond the academy. The MLA takes the lead on how we frame these conversations and support our members. I'm particularly excited to my experience from MLA's Connected Academics Proseminar to the table; the program seeks to broaden knowledge and increase the conversation around a range of fulfilling career options.
2) Shaping Responsible Online Learning. In my personal utopia, everyone gets to keep going to college and learning about what interests them for their whole lives. Online learning might offer this possibility, but we're still figuring out the new medium. We're in a crucial moment right now. What do we want online learning to look like--in our classrooms, in MOOCs, around the globe? How can online learning emerge as a different (but still wonderful) way to learn? As an instructor of an online course and a hybrid right now, these questions feel particularly close to home.
3) Making an Academy that Works Better. The changes in the university system offer us an opportunity to reaffirm our role, rethink our structural inequities, and reimagine the role language learning will play in the future. I know from my own experience that small changes can have big effects--the repurposing of a room into a graduate student lounge can lead to a more vibrant community a few years later, and a shift in policy can help an adjunct find a permanent job. I'm looking forward to working hard, listening carefully, and solving some problems.
What makes me qualified?
As a graduate student at a large public university, I’ve helped run a writing program alongside NTT faculty and adjuncts, worked on a digital center with librarians, designed professionalization workshops for graduate students, and helped at-risk urban undergraduates adjust to college. I’ve seen the academy from both inside and outside its traditional structures. I believe these experiences make me an effective representative of our membership in all of its diversity.
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I'm honored to have been nominated for the MLA Delegate Assembly as a Regional Delegate for the Mid-Atlantic Region. I grew up outside of Philadelphia and I have close connections to many of its universities through my graduate work at Temple, post-graduate work at Penn, and the many people I know at local colleges and universities.
I can't wait to join the big-picture conversation about academia and language learning. I'm particularly interested in:
1) Supporting Careers. I've met so many talented, intelligent, and hard-working people in graduate school, who have so much to offer the academy and the world beyond the academy. The MLA takes the lead on how we frame these conversations and support our members. I'm particularly excited to my experience from MLA's Connected Academics Proseminar to the table; the program seeks to broaden knowledge and increase the conversation around a range of fulfilling career options.
2) Shaping Responsible Online Learning. In my personal utopia, everyone gets to keep going to college and learning about what interests them for their whole lives. Online learning might offer this possibility, but we're still figuring out the new medium. We're in a crucial moment right now. What do we want online learning to look like--in our classrooms, in MOOCs, around the globe? How can online learning emerge as a different (but still wonderful) way to learn? As an instructor of an online course and a hybrid right now, these questions feel particularly close to home.
3) Making an Academy that Works Better. The changes in the university system offer us an opportunity to reaffirm our role, rethink our structural inequities, and reimagine the role language learning will play in the future. I know from my own experience that small changes can have big effects--the repurposing of a room into a graduate student lounge can lead to a more vibrant community a few years later, and a shift in policy can help an adjunct find a permanent job. I'm looking forward to working hard, listening carefully, and solving some problems.
What makes me qualified?
As a graduate student at a large public university, I’ve helped run a writing program alongside NTT faculty and adjuncts, worked on a digital center with librarians, designed professionalization workshops for graduate students, and helped at-risk urban undergraduates adjust to college. I’ve seen the academy from both inside and outside its traditional structures. I believe these experiences make me an effective representative of our membership in all of its diversity.