Emily Sok

The Graduate Reading Exchange

Emily Sok is currently a doctoral student in George Mason University’s Writing and Rhetoric program. Her research interests include composition pedagogy, post-secondary and K-12 reading practices, and reading identity. Her current dissertation work examines identity and inclusion in the treatment of reading in composition, in policy, scholarship, and practice. Drawing from scholarship in her previous education and reading specialist graduate programs, she recognizes identity as an important subfield of reading in composition studies. Her work makes clear the connections between language, institutions, and power, in a way that affirms the reading and literate identities of individuals. Emily is also a current collaborator and site administrator for a community writing project, and her expertise in building collaborative, digital projects is highlighted in the The Graduate Reading Exchange in relation to how to build and run a collaborative digital space.