Identity Work and Affect in the Fostering of Critical Consciousness: The Case of International Graduate Teaching Assistants

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Contents

Introduction

Justification

Rethinking Authority in the Classroom

Challenges

Conclusion and Implications for Graduate Teaching Assistantship

References

About the Author

About the Author

Anselma Widha Prihandita (she/her) holds a Ph.D. in language and rhetoric from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research explores the intersections between writing pedagogy, decoloniality, transnationalism, and cultural translation, looking into how academic knowledge production and modes of discourse are entangled with structures of global coloniality. She currently teaches college composition, graduate-level TESOL classes, and speculative fiction at the University of Washington. Formerly, she was an Assistant Director and Multilingual Language Learning Coordinator at the UW Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Besides her academic work, she is also a Nebula Award-winning speculative fiction writer, with stories published in various literary magazines including Clarkesworld, Uncanny, and The Dark.