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Writer, editor, analyst, educator-turned-tech worker.
I have 10 years of experience working in higher education paired with hands-on experience in prompt engineering, data annotation, and generative AI. I have led research projects, published scientific manuscripts, analyzed multimodal AI outputs, and edited a wide variety of texts--some written by AI, some written by humans! I've done a lot of other things, too. I was formerly a Research Scientist at Cascade Reading, where I assisted in designing studies that examined the benefits of augmented (cascaded) text for reading comprehension. I have formal training in English linguistics and teaching English to speakers of other languages. My areas of research specialization include linguistic theory, language processing, bi- and multilingualism, and stroke-induced aphasia. I received post-doctoral training as a research fellow in the Aphasia Research Laboratory at Purdue University under the direction of Dr. Jiyeon Lee, where I did experimental research on sentence processing in aphasia and sentence production across the lifespan. I completed a PhD in Linguistics at Purdue University in May of 2021. My dissertation examined the effect of discourse-contextual variables on language processing by monolingual and bilingual English speakers during reading. As a PhD student, I was a member of the Purdue Experimental Linguistics Lab led by Dr. Elaine J. Francis. I completed an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in 2016. My master's thesis examined writing center consultants patterns of response during online sessions. My thesis supervisor was Dr. Tracy S. Davis. From 2013 to 2016, I worked as a Writing Center Consultant in the Central Michigan University Writing Center under the direction of Dr. Daniel Lawson. As a Graduate Assistant in the Writing Center from 2014-2016, I specialized in online writing center theory and praxis and conducting one-on-one sessions with non-native English writers. |