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Arts & Sciences welcomes the 39 new faculty members who have joined our community in 2025.
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Humanities<\/h3>
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\"\"<\/strong>Aleisha Barton, Visiting Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architecture,<\/b><\/strong><\/span> has been appointed the 2025-26 Rayand Margaret Horowitz Visiting Professor in American Art at Boston University. In this role, Barton will teach two arthistory courses related to her area of specialization and participate in Boston University’s broader Americanist community. Barton will also continue to pursue her research on postwar psychedelia in the United States, a topic with strong ties to Boston and its surrounding areas.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sophie Hao, Assistant Professor of Linguistics,<\/b> is a specialist in computational linguistics.Professor Hao doe<\/span>s research on issues related to deep neural network models including interpretability, explainability, and bias. You can learn more about her research interests on her website<\/a>. Sophie Hao has a remarkable educational background, including a joint PhD in Computer Science and Linguistics from Yale (2022), where she was advised by Bob Frank and Dana Angluin \u2014 the first joint CS and Linguistics PhD at Yale ever! But this was not *her* first joint degree; she also holds a BA in Mathematics and Linguistics from UChicago. She was most recently a postdoc at NYU, where among other things she collaborated with Tal Linzen on a project showing that statistically trained language models like BERT form representations of morphosyntactic features during training.<\/p>\n

\"\"Rafael Hern\u00e1ndez, Lecturer of English,<\/strong><\/span> considers modernism\u2019s interest in embodiment\u2014notably, how modernism envisioned the body as under regular threat of disease, disability, gender flux, and racial slippage. Throughout his work, Hern\u00e1ndez locates the medical and quasi-medical origins undergirding long-form narratives about health and disability in the early twentieth century. Nineteenth century socio-medical discourses rapidly reached a fever pitch of paranoia in the moment of early modernism and newly framed the body as the site of social and moral deviance, from disease and disability to miscegenation and gender play. In his research, he traces this story as rendered in the literature and popular discourse of the time to show how the political, social, and cultural instability of the modernist moment was attached to disruptions in bodies along with their representations in art and literature.\u00a0Alongside his research, Hern\u00e1ndez teach courses in British and Irish modernism, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglophone literature, and special topics courses on disability studies and the works of James Joyce.<\/p>\n

\"\"Arianna Q. James, Assistant Professor of English, <\/strong>also has<\/span> affiliations in the African American & Black Diaspora Studies Program and the Cinema and Media Studies Program in the College of Arts & Sciences. Professor James specializes in African American and Asian American literature and film studies. Her book project, A Sense of AfroAsia: Blackness, Asianness, and the Speculative<\/em>, collapses the boundaries between African American and Asian American literature and theory to experiment in the expansive field of Afro-Asian studies. Invested in ways of reading and being beyond institutionalized field delineation, A Sense of AfroAsia<\/em> argues that aesthetic markers of AfroAsia beyond bodily encounters speak to a long tradition of crossing and speculative race-making in the U.S. Outside of her primary fields of study, Arianna\u2019s other research and teaching interests include media and fan work, speculative fiction, and digital humanities, as well as constellating theories around queerness, mixedness, and the body.<\/p>\n

\"\"Daniel Munro, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, <\/strong>has main interests in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science. Much of his research is about the imagination. In addition to foundational questions about the imagination\u2019s nature and epistemic value, he\u2019s interested in how theorizing about the imagination can help us better understand domains such as conspiracy theorizing, religious cognition, and artificial intelligence. Daniel received his PhD from the University of Toronto and his BA from the University of British Columbia. Before coming to BU, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at York University.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Miguel Ohnesorge, Assistant Professor of Philosophy,<\/strong> is a philosopher and historian of science. You will often find him busy writing his book (under contract at Oxford University Press), which is tentatively titled “Newton’s Open Problem: Earth’s Figure and Universal Gravitation.”<\/em> In it, he reconstruct how they tested whether Newtonian gravitation is a ‘universal’ force. Ohnesorge’s other research explores the foundations and limits of quantitative measurement in science. You can use this website<\/a> to discover his research and teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Steven D. Smith, Professor of Classical Studies, <\/b><\/span>is the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Boston University. He received his PhD from Boston University in 2004 and is thrilled to be back in his home department. Before returning to Boston, Professor Smith spent two decades at Hofstra University, where he held the John Cranford Adams Endowed Chair in the Humanities (2017-2023), and where he was named Teacher of the Year in 2023. He is the author of Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton<\/em> (Barkhuis, 2007) and Man and Animal in Severan Rome: The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus<\/em> (Cambridge, 2014). In 2020, Professor Smith received the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for his book Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture: Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian (Cambridge, 2019).<\/p>\n

\"\"Carolyn White, Professor of History of Art & Architecture,<\/b> is <\/span>director of the Preservation Studies Program and Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. Her scholarship focuses on cultural heritage, the materiality of daily life, the built environment, active site archaeology, and the intersection of and collaboration between art and archaeology. Her research spans four centuries, focusing on personal adornment and the construction of identity in 18th century England and America, 19th-century ranching in Hawaii, daily life in 1860s Aurora, Nevada, and on the built environment of Black Rock City. Her new research project focuses on squatted buildings and the right to the city in Rome, Italy. Her most recent books are The Archaeology of Burning Man<\/em> (University of New Mexico Press, 2022) and Distant Voices: On Steven Seidenberg\u2019s Architecture of Silence<\/em> (Contrasto Press, 2024), the latter with her frequent collaborator, photographer Steven Seidenberg.<\/p>\n

\"\"Anthony Yacovone, Assistant Professor of Linguistics <\/strong><\/span>uses psycholinguistic methods like neuroimaging, eye-tracking,and computational modeling to better understand how language develops, functions, and adapts in complex, real-world environments.<\/p>\n

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Mathematics & Computational Sciences<\/h3>
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\"\"Gaurab Aryal, Associate Professor of Economics, <\/b><\/span>is an empirical industrial organization economist, who uses game theory and econometrics method to study markets and industries, with and without informational frictions. His current research includes designing auctions for annuities and high-speed internet for schools, measuring market values of pharmaceutical drugs, merger analysis and understanding causal link between competition and productivity.<\/p>\n

\"\"Leonidas Kontothanassis, Professor of the Practice of Computer Science,<\/b> recently served as Senior Engineering Director at Facebook, preceded by his work at Google and Akamai. Notably, Leonidas was recognized by ACM SIGCOMM as having a significant impact on the world of computer networking, as well as being awarded a technical Emmy for building a system that made video consumption on YouTube possible on a large scale. Through his academic and research experience, Leonidas has some words of wisdom to keep in mind this school year and beyond: \u201cLearning is something you should never stop doing,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\"\"Aaron Mueller, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, <\/b>is interested in evaluating and improving the robustness and efficiency of language models. His work spans causal and mechanistic interpretability methods; evaluations of language models inspired by linguistic principles and findings in cognitive science; and the development and analysis of more sample-efficient language models.<\/p>\n

\"\"Roi Orzach, Assistant Professor of Economics,<\/b>is a microeconomic theorist specializing in reputation, repeated games, and social learning. His recent research investigates how the desire to conform results in pluralistic ignorance in groups. He is also researching how groups with diverse interests design collaborative experimentation and the inefficiencies that arise in the process.<\/p>\n

\"\"Alexander Poremba, Assistant Professor of Computer Science,<\/strong> shares a joint affiliation with the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences and the Department of Physics. Previously, he was a postdo<\/span>ctor<\/span>al researcher at MIT hosted by both Vinod Vaikuntanathan and Peter Shor. Poremba received his PhD fromCaltech, where he was fortunate to have been advised by Thomas Vidick.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Chang Xiao, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, <\/b>is a Research Scientist at Adobe Research.Xiao’s research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Generative AI, Visual Computing, and AR\/VR. He is particularly interested in developing human-centered interaction techniques that are intuitive, immersive, and natural.\u00a0His research outcomes have had various impacts beyond academia. At Adobe, he has presented my research twice during Adobe\u2019s annual event, Summit Sneaks (2022, 2024). These features have also been integrated into Adobe\u2019s product. Xiao’s past work has received more than 50 media interviews and coverages, including by CNN, Adweek, CACM, and IEEE Spectrum. He also hold 10+ US patents.<\/p>\n

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Natural Sciences<\/h3>
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\"\"Kelly Aho, Assistant Professor of Biology,<\/b> is an ecosystem ecologist interested in carbon and nitrogen cycling. She aims to understand inland waters as both 1) biogeochemically important ecosystems and 2) connectors of other ecosystem components (e.g., land, ocean, atmosphere). Aho is particularly interested in greenhouse gas production in and emissions from aquatic ecosystems. This research is relevant to aquatic ecology, carbon and nitrogen cycle models, and greenhouse gas budgets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Emily Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, <\/b>studies Milky Way stellar halo. Cunningham is interested in using motions and chemical properties of stars to understand the Milky Way’s formation and evolution. Previously, Cunningham was a Flatiron Research Fellow, at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute. At CCA, she is a member of the Dynamics Group and the Astronomical Data Group. She completed my PhD in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, working with Alis Deason, Raja Guhathakurta and Connie Rockosi.<\/p>\n

\"\"Robin Francis, Lecturer of Biology, <\/b>is interested in enhancing our understanding of fish population persistence through the framework of marine metapopulation dynamics. Her projects focus on the starting point of these dynamics: variation in mating success and larval dispersal. She uses emerging model systems in marine fish ecology and evolution, the line-snout neon goby, Elacatinus lori, and the orange anemonefish, Amphiprion percula, in a combination of field studies and lab experiments.<\/p>\n

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Hongjian He, Research Assistant Professor of Chemistry, <\/b>is a postdoc at Boston University in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his B.S. degree from Tongji University and Ph.D. degree from Brandeis University. His research focuses on probe design and revealing biological behaviors in living systems by mid-infrared photothermal microscopy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Patrick Keys, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environment, <\/b>\u00a0is focused on a broadrange of global sustainability challenges, including climate change impacts, cross-scale risks, and social-ecological tele-connections. His doctoral work sought to understand the dynamics between sources and sinks of atmospheric moisture, particularly how socially-driven changes in evaporation could be related to downwind, terrestrial precipitation. He has also worked on other topics ranging from the role of science fiction in developing more realistic scenarios for the future of Earth\u2019s oceans, to the importance of recognizing the Anthropocene as a new baseline for global risk analysis.<\/p>\n

Before CSU, Pat founded an environmental consultancy that worked with local and international partners. In collaboration with different partners, he explored food security in the UAE, the link between drought and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa, and climate change adaptation and mitigation in Fort Collins. He has also conducted fieldwork in Alaska (fish biology), Wyoming (burrowing owl behavioral ecology), American Samoa (indigenous perspectives on conservation), Morocco (agricultural water policy), Suriname (small-scale water supply), and Vietnam (climate change impacts).<\/p>\n

\"\"Sasha J. Kramer, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environment, <\/b>researches the characterizations of surface oceanphytoplankton communities using a combination of in-water samples and remote sensing data on local to regional to global scales. From these surface ocean measurements, she then consider the implications of changing phytoplankton community composition (PCC) for broader biogeochemical cycles (e.g., the biological carbon pump and ocean carbon export) and in response to extreme events like coastal wildfires. Her work is highly interdisciplinary and combines oceanographic fieldwork, ocean color remote sensing, and lab work using optical and molecular tools.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sangil Lee, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences,<\/b>Lee is interested in developing novel analysis methods for studying decision-making. His recent work has focused on inferring cognitive states from neuroimaging data through machine-learning algorithms. He also collaborates often to link decision-making traits to clinical diagnosis.<\/p>\n

As a hobby, Lee enjoys designing academic graphs.<\/p>\n

\"\"Laura Long, Research Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences,<\/b> is a Postdoctoral Associate at CARD and is primarily involved in research on resilience and recovery from anxiety and related disorders. She is passionate about integrating protective factors, such as hope and personal strengths, into treatment toenhance well-being and support meaningful, positive change. Her clinical work supports patients in achieving their goals through evidence-based cognitive-behavioral interventions. Laura earned her PhD from the University of Houston and completed her predoctoral internship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she gained extensive experience working with individuals facing anxiety, depression, and trauma-related disorders.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kirit Karkare, Assistant Professor of Physics, <\/b>is an experimental cosmologist. He builds telescopes to observe faint radiation in the millimeter-wave region, including the cosmic microwave background anddistant galaxies, to learn about the Big Bang and fundamental physics in the early universe. Related photonics interest lays in utilizing OPF to fabricate sensitive superconducting photon detectors, as his cameras require detector arrays that must be custom-made.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kate Nussenbaum,\u00a0Assistant Professor of Psychological & <\/strong>Brain Sciences,\u00a0<\/strong>researches in the Computation, Learning, and Development Lab focusing on understanding developmental changes invalue-guided learning, memory, and exploration from childhood to early adulthood. By combining novel behavioral tasks with fMRI and computational modeling, she addresses questions about how, across development, people adapt their learning processes to the demands of varied contexts. How do children, adolescents, and adults learn about the structure of the environment and then use that structured knowledge to guide subsequent learning and decision-making? How do \u2018learning to learn\u2019 processes shape behavior over multiple timescales of experience?<\/p>\n

\"\"Yakeel Quiroz-Gaviria, Research Professor of Psychological & <\/strong>Brain Sciences,<\/strong> was an Associate Professor in theDepartments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, MA. She is the Director of the MGH Multicultural Alzheimer\u2019s Prevention Program-MAPP, and Immediate Past Chair of the Diversity and Disparities PIA of ISTAART. She earned her master\u2019s degree in cognitive neuroscience and her PhD in clinical neuropsychology from Boston University. Her research interests include brain imaging, genomics, early detection and preclinical biomarkers of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other dementias.<\/p>\n

\"\"Adrian Thompson, Lecturer of Biology, <\/strong>aims to uncover the molecular and cellular mechanisms that enable neurons and circuits in the developing nervous system to adapt and maintain function in response to changing activity\u2014whether from sensory experience or abnormal conditions such as seizures. While Thompson continues to engage in research collaborations, his primary focus is undergraduate science education. He draws on his background in molecular and cellular neurobiology, along with a strong commitment to evidence-based teaching practices, to design and teach neuroscience courses.<\/p>\n

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Social Sciences<\/h3>
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\"\"Apekshya Prasai, Assistant Professor of Political Science,<\/b> researches the relationship between gender, conflict and social transformation, with a regional focus on South Asia, especially Nepal. Her book project examines the gendered ways in which insurgents organize violence and explains why some rebels conform to patriarchal norms while others radically subvert them. Presenting a novel theory of militant female activism, her work highlights the critical but neglected role women play in shaping the gender strategies rebels adopt. Her book and other related projects draw on extensive data collected through ethnographic fieldwork in Nepal and archival research in the Netherlands and across several digital archives. Combining semi-structured interviews, oral histories and rare primary documents in Nepali, Hindi and English, her research sheds lights on the social, especially, gendered processes of civil wars.<\/p>\n

Her research has been recognized and supported by several awards and fellowships including the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association\u2019s Women, Gender and Politics Section; the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Award; predoctoral fellowship in the International Security Program at Harvard University\u2019s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; the United States Institute of Peace Dissertation Award and the American Political Science Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. Prior to joining Boston University, Prasai was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University\u2019s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.<\/p>\n

\"\"Steven Schmidt, Assistant Professor in Sociology,<\/b> was an NSF SBE Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California. Schmidt’s research appears in the American Sociological Review, Social Problems, City & Community, and the Journal of Marriage and Family<\/em> and has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, USC\u2019s Lusk Center for Real Estate, and the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC-MEXUS).<\/p>\n

\"\"Patrick Sheehan, Assistant Professor of Sociology,<\/b> researches transformations to professional work in contemporary capitalism and examines how workers and organizations respond to technological change, shifting cultural expectations, and the heightened uncertainties that characterize economic life today. His research has been published in American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Work & Occupations, and Contexts and has won awards from the ASA sections on Culture; Organizations, Occupations, and Work; and Economic Sociology.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Brianna Tafolla Riviere, Assistant Professor of History,<\/b> is a historian of Twentieth-Century, North American Indigenous history. Tafolla Rivi\u00e8re will be teaching courses on Indigenous history, popular culture, film studies, and more. She is Chicana and Mexican Indigenous descent and has worked with several inter-tribal and urban Indigenous organizations. Her dissertation, \u201cReel Red Power: Indigenous Activism, Visual Sovereignty, and the Film Industry,\u201d focuses on the effort of Native American activists to remake the representation of Indigenous Peoples and United States history in film. Through the lens of Indigenous futurism, spectacle, urban studies, and visual sovereignty, she centers Red Power activists and expands current scholarship on the Red Power movement beyond political and social spheres, highlighting how Native activists and filmmakers reconceptualized an entire industry. This work contributes to histories of Indigenous North America to show the complexities and evolving strategies of Indigenous activism in an era of mass media production.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Chepchirchir Tirop, Assistant Professor of History, <\/b><\/span>is an historian of Africa interested in the social and cultural histories of East Africa. Her previous research focused on the Indian diaspora in Kenya, examining how memory, identity, and nation-building have evolved in post-independence Kenya. Her scholarship has appeared in publications such as Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies and Africa Is A Country. <\/em>Her dissertation project examines the political role of athletics in Kenya from 1945 to 2000, arguing that sports were central to decolonization, nation-building, and Cold War diplomacy. She demonstrates how both colonial and postcolonial governments leveraged track and field to advance political agendas\u2014from managing racial hierarchies during decolonization to forging national unity and navigating Cold War politics after independence. Her work reframes African histories by highlighting sport as a site of colonial continuity and postcolonial agency, repositions Kenya as an autonomous Cold War actor, and recovers the often-overlooked role of African athletes in global sports history.<\/p>\n

\"\"Chad Williams, Professor of History, <\/strong><\/span>is the Tomorrow Foundation Chair of American Intellectual History and Professor of African American and Black Diaspora Studies at Boston University. He specializes in African American and modern United States History and African American and African diasporic intellectual history. Williams is the author of The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois<\/em> and the First World,<\/em> which was named a best book of 2023 by The Washington Post<\/em>, The New Yorker<\/em> and the Christian Science Monitor<\/em>, longlisted for the PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Weld Award for Biography and a Museum of African American History Stone Book Award finalist. He is also author of the award-winning book Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era<\/em>, recipient of the 2011 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians and 2011 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History, and co-editor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence and Major Problems in African American History, Second Edition<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He has published articles in numerous leading academic journals and collections, as well as op-eds, essays and reviews in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, <\/em>and The Conversation<\/em>. He has earned fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Ford Foundation and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nicolas Wittstock, Assistant Professor of Political Science, <\/b> studies the political economy of advanced industrial societies, with a special focus on the political and economic impact of climate change. Other research has explored the political economy of Populism and democratic backsliding. His work has been published in various outlets, including Cambridge University Press, Energy Policy, and the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, among others.<\/p>\n

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Writing Program<\/h3>
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\"\"Deborah Breen, Master Lecturer in Writing Program, <\/strong>is the Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning. Dr. Deborah\u00a0Breen prioritizes teaching and learning partnerships at BU. She encourages collaborations with faculty, staff, and students in initiatives that support teaching and learning. Deb has a strong interdisciplinary background with undergraduate qualifications in humanities and applied science (specializing in paper conservation), along with an MA in Public History from Monash University, Australia, and a PhD in History from Duke University.<\/p>\n

\"\"Caitlin Dalton, Lecturer in Writing Program<\/strong>, lives with her partner, a 4-year-old son, and achallenging dog. For fun and some peace amidst the chaos of academia, she tries to go running most days, and ran her first marathon in the Fall 2022. Though some of this is her work, she also loves visiting art museums and arts events in and around the city.<\/p>\n

\"\"Francis Issah, Lecturer in Writing Program,\u00a0<\/strong>was born and raised in Tamale, Ghana and considers himself a global citizen. Apart from his native country of Ghana, he has taught English language and literature in Togo and Burkina Faso. Prior to coming to the United States, he was a high school teacher and a university lecturer in Ghana for a combined total of sixteen years. Dr. Issah comes to BU from Wayne State University, where he taught introductory college composition, intermediate writing, technical communication, and rhetorical theory. He is currently working with two other colleagues on an edited collection titled Globalizing Ubuntu in RhetoricalDiscourse and Pedagogy: Theory, Methods, and Practice. This book project will be published by the University of South Carolina Press. Dr. Issah is married to Gifty, and together they have three adorable children: Abigail, Zipporah, and Caleb. He likes to spend a lot of time with his family as well as travel and cook.<\/p>\n

\"\"Shweta Krishnan, Lecturer in Writing Program, <\/strong>loves exploring the world through a critical interdisciplinary lens shaped by her experience as a clinical, feminist activist, anthropologist, and science writer. She comes to BU after completing two years at George Washington University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in their Women\u2019s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. Her courses seekto decolonize science and open up new methods for reimagining our collective futures. She is currently working on a book length project based on her anthropological research as well as some speculative fiction. In her free time, she enjoys good food, art museums, theater, and cinema.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lyana Sun Han Chang, Lecturer in Writing Program,\u00a0<\/strong>was born in Huacho, Per\u00fa and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago where she learned English through ESL classes in school. Lyana has taught first year-writing for multilingual students at the University of New Hampshire and Penn State as well as content courses like Global Englishes and intensive English courses like intermediate writing\/reading and listening\/speaking at Penn State. In her teaching practices, Lyana incorporates evidence-based pedagogy and her lived experiences as a multilingual immigrant student.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Lyana\u2019s experiences growing up with an undocumented status influence her collaborative and action-oriented research with illegalized immigrants. Her current research focuses on the relationships between immigrant intersectional identities, illegalized immigrant reclaimant narratives, and mainstream discourses on immigration. The current project coming out of her research is an \u201cIllegalized Repository,\u201d a virtual space to platform diverse and minoritized illegalized immigrant voices and stories.<\/p>\n

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