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Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) at McGill University. His work aims to create sociology of literacy providing insights into the cultural, political, and power-relational dimensions of linguistic textual practices. He mobilizes discourse analysis, ethnography, practitioner research, narrative inquiry, and arts-based inquiry to study the sociological dimensions of reading, writing, and language education. He is particularly interested in the learning experiences of minoritized and racialized students in multicultural and multilingual contexts. His research is interdisciplinary, drawing from philosophy, sociology, history, and literary theory to explore non-Western forms of language literacy education. His projects include a critical examination of mainstream linguistics and its role in legitimizing hierarchies, as well as addressing the imbalance in academic knowledge production from a de-Westernization perspective. He investigates organic literacy practices and how they challenge dominant writing cultures and norms.
Department: Department of Medicine. Program: Experimental Medicine.