Laila ElSerty

Organizing and Humanizing the Teaching Track in Rhetoric and Composition Programs

Laila ElSerty, an Egyptian woman with dark hair smiling at the camera and standing confidently in the bright hallway of the library of the American University in Cairo

Laila ElSerty is an Instructor at the Department of Rhetoric and Composition, the Academy of Liberal Arts, the American University in Cairo (AUC).  ElSerty graduated in 2011 from AUC’s MATESOL program. Currently she is working on her PhD dissertation in corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis.  For over 20 years, ElSerty has been teaching a variety of courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. These include English for academic purposes, linguistics, business writing, and research writing courses. Her academic interests include Rhetoric and composition, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Meta-cognition, Curriculum Design, Global Learning, and Technology-Assisted Language Learning.