I currently work as the director of the Graduate Writing Hub at Anderson University in South Carolina. Before that, I worked as a writing coach at several different institutes of higher education in Southern California.

Working in writing centers puts me at the center of campus diversity—I have worked with everyone from traditional undergraduate students to professionals returning to school for additional certifications or advanced degrees. Many of these students have been English Language Learners. In this role, I work one-on-one with clients, demystifying the expectations of academic discourse. You can read about some of my work in this blog post “You Are not a Bad Writer.” My writing center work has always involved supporting faculty as the primary instructors of writing in their discipline. I’ve walked faculty through scaffolding a writing assignment for their students or writing clear assignment prompts to make discourse conventions transparent for their students and to invite them to participate in those conversations.

I have taught undergraduate courses on Introduction to World Music, Music Cultures of the United States, and Writing in Music. I structure my courses around the disciplinary values that drive my research as an ethnomusicologist to show students that music is something people do, not just something people produce.

 My courses for graduate students are discipline driven. I have taught units on Ethnography as Literature as well as History and Theory in Ethnomusicology. Most recently, I co-taught an Introduction to Research Methods course for doctoral students in leadership studies, leveraging my experience and training as an ethnographer to introduce them to qualitative research methods.

As a pianist, I have also taught musicianship, Western music theory, and and beginning piano.