Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Education (Reading/Writing/Literacy)

Dissertation: College Writing, Capitalism, and the Common Good: Adult Students Imagining Civil Capital

A practitioner inquiry into an adult undergraduate Grant Writing course, I studied the literacy trajectories of my students as they carried their grant writing skills into their communities. The classroom-based study was contextualized by a discourse analysis of US workforce education policy and the marketing materials of the college's adult degree program.

M.A., ABD, Washington University in St. Louis, English Literature

B.A., Union College, English