Research Interests

PhD - Language, Reading, and Culture

Dissertation - Comprehensibility of Game Rulebooks: Perspectives from a Community of Practice

• New literacies / multi-modalities such as computer, play, music, film, and digital and traditional games

• Psycholinguistics, transactional theory, retrospective miscue analysis, inquiry based literacy, and comprehension

• Sociocultural theory, cultural mediation, situated learning, constructivism, and mentoring

• Cognitive psychology, memory, creativity, and emotional intelligence

• Communities of practice, discourse communities, speech acts, and ethnography

• Social economic status, concerted cultivation, and funds of knowledge

• Content analysis, linguistic landscapes, Gestalt theory, and semiotics

• Qualitative methods, constructivist grounded theory, and Delphi Method

• Curriculum and instruction, gifted education, online education, and technical writing

• Pragmatism, systems thinking, teacher action research, and educational leadership