My scholarly interests are oriented around two topics: genres and their function in community membership, and language differences in understanding communities. I generally take a rhetorical – i.e. a humanities – approach to studying language and communication – though I am heavily informed by the social scientific approaches of linguistics. I also continue to be interested in examining understanding various forms of literature, especially non-fiction, in the ways they speak to how we use writing to communicate and understand.
at the centers/ at the edges 