Dr. Megan Weaver

Dr. Megan Weaver is a collegiate assistant professor and the Director of GTA Education in the Department of English. Her interests center on supporting students’ and teachers’ critical language awareness development as well as their intercultural communication competence. Her research has been published in Linguistics and Education and English Education. Dr. Weaver has presented her work at numerous academic conferences including, the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, and the National Council of Teachers of English. She has also facilitated professional development workshops on multilingualism and writing instruction. Her work on critical language awareness pedagogy was awarded the Council of Writing Program Administrators Dissertation Award in 2021. She teaches courses in discourse analysis, first-year writing, advanced writing and research, and writing pedagogy. She won a College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 2023. Dr. Weaver also serves on PhD and MA committees, and many of her advisees have gone on to careers in secondary and post-secondary education as well as doctoral programs in rhetoric and writing.