You haven't heard from me much nowadays because I'm trying to keep up with the academic rat race. Here's what is going on behind the scenes of my life during my last year of graduate school. at least I find peace in the hotel pools when I am far from home Present & Publish I have been hustling to publish my work for the last three years. Different parties have different understandings of the research to publication pipeline. Some recommend turning seminar papers into conferen

One of my favorite things about academia is attending conferences. Conferences provide me with opportunities to be inspired by the work of others in the field, support my friends and colleagues, and meet scholars I look up to. My favorite conference has been NCTE's Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC). This is one of the largest national conferences in my field, and it has been welcoming to me as a budding scholar and graduate student. Here, I want to shar

For those who don't know, I write opinion articles for my university's newspaper, The Spectrum. I've been doing this for the last 2 years. It's a good gig. I get to write about issues that are important to me and the community and get paid for it. There are limits to what I can write about. I have to suggest my ideas to my editor and they have to approve, usually making sure I'm not covering the same topic someone else is in the same edition. However, I have noticed lately t

I originally created this blog in 2024 with my ideas to share with my community, family, friends, and colleagues. Around the same time, I started writing for the NDSU Spectrum opinions section. I'm a creator and a writer. Teaching and scholarship is often not enough for me. That's why I found new outlets to share my voice through. Fall 2025 was particularly rough on me. I had a severe infection in August and a surgery that followed while I prepared to teach a new online cours

I like to incorporate class check-in surveys, especially when I teach a new class. This semester marks my first time teaching an...

no-show after no-show for research appointments Y'all already know I love doing empirical research. Interviews, observations, surveys, data analysis- I love it all. It's why I do what I do. My dissertation project has been a difficult time for me though, and there aren't many spaces to share my ungratefulness, so here it is! Gathering Participants Gathering participants in research that has little to no incentives is one of the most difficult parts of research. My dissertatio

Dear co-workers and scholars, This is going to be a difficult blog post for me, so I appreciate your patience and willingness to hear me...

Mafruha and I in matching co-designed bucket hats In January 2023, I started my internship at the NDSU Center for Writers along with a...

After my prospectus was approved in May, I moved forward with my dissertation research as best as I could. I've also been preparing for...

What is a Privilege Walk? In my teaching credential program in 2017, one of my classes had me and my classmates perform a privilege walk...

This blog post is about my time as a crip killjoy in Cleveland this last week. For those who don't know what a crip killjoy is, Scholar...

I wrote about the process of becoming a PhD candidate in a previous blog post, which you can read here . I recently passed my written...

Recently, the US Department of Education created a webpage to EndDEI . The site says " this submission form is an outlet for students,...

I often distract myself from the woes of the world by surrounding myself with research and non-fiction reading. Unfortunately, this...

As I come to the end of my PhD Program, I am thinking about my future to prepare for the job market. Part of this prep includes plenty of...

Despite having mental diagnoses during my time in undergraduate school, I didn't formally start using university disability services...

Part vacation, part conference, vaconferences are the closest thing I have to vacations during grad school. As I've recently revealed...

Earlier this month, I attended a summer seminar for publishing research, research I have been working on since Spring of 2022. As a less...

This weekend, I attended a funeral service for my recently passed away friend, Jade. Then, I helped with my other longtime friend's...

I feel that there is no right way to discuss politics without upsetting large portions of audiences, audiences that hold various views...