I am the Associate Director of Composition and an Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University. I research systems and network theory, specializing in how systems and networks shape writing program administration, graduate teaching professional development, students’ transition from high school to college, and academic workaholism.
My current academic endeavor is copyediting my co-edited collection, Navigating the Network: Administration, Systems, and Social Justice, with Aurora Matzke and Bonnie Vidrine-Isbell. It is forthcoming from the WAC Clearinghouse. My first co-edited collection with Bill Thelin, Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class, is available from the University Press of Colorado.
Non-academically, I have a book for incoming first-year students, How to Survive Your First Year of College: Strategies for Academic Success in a Stressed-Out World and Making It Happen: A 16 Week Goal Setting Journal for Your College Success. Both of these student-focused books draw from my years of teaching college and advising students on how to thrive and survive in college. You are also welcome to read my previous blog posts and listen to my 2022-2023 podcast, An Academic’s Life, which were both personal exercises in vulnerability and developing my personal growth mindset.
