Announcements

2025: I’ve been invited to author a 2nd edition of the Cultivating CLA book, with a new section on CLA approaches to Generative AI (among other things). I’ll also be joining an EU-funded project called Critical Language Awareness for Democratic Engagement and Sustainability, or CLADES.

2022-2025: I’ve continued to give talks and host “Salon” conversations about Critical Language Awareness. I’ve been adding recordings and other resources to the CLA Collective site.

We are also building Leadership Groups in the Collective, to ensure sustainable and inclusive design for our growing organization.🤩

February 2022- My new book, Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Writing Classroom is out with Routledge!

January 2022-I’ve created an online hub with information, resources and materials, related to Critical Language Awareness (CLA) Pedagogy.  It’s called the “CLA Collective”.

November 2021- I will be co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Second Language Writing with Rebecca Lorimer Leonard! Here is the CFP. Also, here are slides from my presentation with Northern New England TESOL.

October 2021- The Cultivating CLA book is now available for pre-order with Routledge. Also, the companion website, “CLA Collective,” is now in beta version. 

September 2021- I have a new book under contract with Routledge, entitled Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Writing Classroom, forthcoming in February 2022. To learn more, check out my presentations from the (virtual) NCTE 2020 conference and from Northeast CCCC and the BreadLoaf Teachers’ Network.

December 2020- I published an article with the Journal of Academic Writing entitled “Inclusive Pedagogy in the Academic Writing Classroom: Cultivating Communities of Belonging.”

August 2019– published a piece with The Conversation about links between discomfort and sense of belonging.

June 2019– I presented at the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing in Sweden.

May 2019– I published a second piece with Inside Higher Ed on student conceptions of inclusivity.

October 2018: I presented from my research on student conceptions of inclusivity at the Fall Faculty Forum.