My research examines how generative AI reshapes authorship, literacy, rhetorical agency, and belonging in postsecondary writing. I focus particularly on multilingual and first-generation writers, pedagogies that keep human judgment visible, and the cultural systems through which students learn what scholarship should look and sound like.
Examines how generative AI can sponsor literacy or illiteracy by contrasting invisible delegation with visible, bounded collaboration that preserves writerly judgment, agency, and accountability.
A three-phase framework—Anchor, Field, and Filter—for structuring AI-assisted writing so that purpose, boundaries, comparison, selection, attribution, and reflection remain visible and human-governed.
Investigates how multilingual writers use AI feedback and linguistic polishing to negotiate legitimacy, professionalism, shame, and the pressure to sound as though they belong.
Examines Dark Academia not merely as an aesthetic but as a cultural script that shapes how students perform study, discipline, intelligence, labor, burnout, and scholarly legitimacy.
Examines how culturally familiar messages about effort can combine encouragement, care, obligation, warning, and shame in the educational lives of first-generation, immigrant, and multilingual students.
Examines how assignment sequences and visible intellectual checkpoints help students make, articulate, and reflect on rhetorical decisions throughout the writing process.
“Co-author” describes distributed rhetorical labor—not AI personhood, legal authorship, or equal agency. The human writer remains responsible for judgment.
These models describe different arrangements of rhetorical labor, authority, visibility, and responsibility.
AI performs rhetorical labor invisibly while the writer may accept fluent output without sufficiently planning, monitoring, comparing, revising, or evaluating it.
AI performs a bounded and visible role while the writer retains responsibility for the rhetorical situation and the decisions that follow.
Not a prompt formula: a rhetorical cycle for assigning AI a defined role while keeping human monitoring, responsibility, and transfer visible.
Human rhetorical planning
Situation · purpose · audience · criteria · AI role · boundaries · documentationBounded AI optioning
Defined role · multiple options · alternatives · assumptions · no automatic authorityHuman monitoring and judgment
Compare · select · reject · revise · attribute · reflect · transferFull rhetorical loop: Situation → Criteria → Role and Boundaries → Options → Comparison → Selection and Revision → Attribution → Reflection → Transfer
Academic participation can become contingent on performing institutionally recognizable forms of English.
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A conceptual chapter project examining how institutional expectations of fluency, correctness, and academic legitimacy can make AI-generated polish feel like protection from judgment.
A developing project examining how AI-mediated professionalism can standardize voice, flatten rhetorical difference, and reinforce narrow expectations of credible communication.
Dark Academia functions not merely as an aesthetic but as a platformed literacy identity system: a cultural script for how study, intelligence, discipline, exhaustion, and scholarly legitimacy should look.
The meaning of the phrase depends on context; it can carry encouragement, care, obligation, warning, and shame rather than functioning as universally harmful language.
The project is especially interested in how care and coercion may become rhetorically inseparable when educational effort is tied to family sacrifice, migration, mobility, or collective expectation.
This archive gathers selected scholarly publications, presentations, works in progress, and public-facing research projects.
Individual 15-minute presentation and Q&A.
Research manuscript · In development
Research manuscript · Early development
Research program · In development
Video essays and public scholarship on graduate study, rhetoric and composition, writing pedagogy, and academic life.
Interactive research and teaching project · In Development
Private prototype currently in testing.
Assignment-design and teaching-resource project · In Development
Private prototype currently in testing.