Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst
A.B., Occidental College
ENGL 490: Senior Seminar: Counterstory & Critical Imagination
ENGL 331: The Story of English
ENGL 308: Writing Associate Workshop
ENGL 202: The Personal Essay
ENGL 150: College Writing
My research explores the ways writers in diverse global contexts transform written English in their efforts to describe and change their worlds. Though my published research focuses specifically on Indonesian literacy practices, I am convinced that all writers transform English as they seek to understand and write the world, whether they write from within U.S. borders or beyond. The courses I teach, from 鈥淔irst-year Writing鈥 to 鈥淭he Story of English,鈥 to 鈥淲riting Women,鈥 are firmly grounded in the belief that the local is global and that we, as global citizens, must learn to negotiate diverse voices and audiences as we seek to re-write our world.
Research Specialties: Global Literacies; Feminist Rhetorics; Critical Pedagogies; Writing Across the Curriculum; Writing Center Theory.
Engelson, Amber. CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, 2024.
Engelson, Amber. 鈥溾業 Have No Mother Tongue鈥: (Re)Conceptualizing Rhetorical Voice in Indonesia.鈥 . Ed. Keith Lloyd. July 2020.
Engelson, Amber. 鈥溾楻esources are Power鈥: Writing Across the Global Information Divide.鈥 . Eds. Rich Rice and Kirk St. Amant. Colorado: University of Colorado Press, May 2018.
Engelson, Amber. 鈥 Literacy in Composition Studies: April 2018.
Engelson, Amber. 鈥溾楾he Hands of God at Work鈥: Negotiating Between Western and Religious Sponsorship in Indonesia.鈥 76.4 (March 2014): 292-314.
鈥淟istening for Abundance: Towards a Critical Pedagogy that Dwells in Excess鈥. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spokane, WA. April 2024.
鈥溾楾he Essence, the Soul, is Still Water鈥: Metaphors for Listening Past Colonialist Dualities and Towards Interrelationality.鈥 Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Spelman College, Atlanta. Oct. 2023.
鈥溾楳ubadalah is In-Between鈥: Performing Translingual Praxis, Islamic Gender Justice and Decolonial Meaning-Making in Indonesia.鈥 Sponsored Panel: Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Standing Group. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. Feb. 2022.
鈥溾楽ocial Justice is Not About Language; It鈥檚 About Humanity鈥: Translanguaging to Cultivate One鈥檚 Audiences.鈥 International Researchers Consortium Workshop. Conference on College Composition and Communication. March, 2021.
鈥淲riting with God: Translanguaging Towards Social Justice in Indonesia.鈥 International Researchers Consortium Workshop. Conference on College Composition and Communication. March, 2020.
鈥淔rom Equitable Access to Cosmopolitan Engagement: What U.S.-based Scholars Might Learn from Indonesian Scholars.鈥 Writing Education Across Borders International Conference, Pennsylvania State University, Oct. 2019.
鈥淭ranslanguaging to Serve: Towards Islamic Feminist Social Justice in Indonesia.鈥 Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st Century: Possibilities, Publics, Partnerships. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Oct. 2018.
鈥淩eligion Matters: Translanguaging Towards Muslim-Feminist Ideals in Indonesia.鈥 Thomas R. Watson Conference: Making Future Matters. Oct., 2018.
鈥溾楽ocial Justice is Not About Language; It鈥檚 About Humanity鈥: Cosmopolitan Translanguaging in Indonesia.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO, 2018.
鈥淐ultivating (Her)Story: Teaching Feminist Archival Research and the Politics of Imagining.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR, 2017.
鈥溾業鈥檒l Assimilate鈥or Now鈥: Translingual Agency and the Spaces in Between.鈥 Thomas R. Watson Conference. Mobility Work in Composition: Translation, Migration, Transformation. Louisville, KY 2016.
鈥淟istening Translingually: Towards a Graduate-level Pedagogy of Global Responsivity.鈥
Thomas R. Watson Conference. Responsivity: Defining, Encouraging, Enacting, Louisville, KY 2014.
鈥淥pening Up the First-Year Research Project: Re-framing Academic Inquiry as a Local-Global, Public Endeavor.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN 2014.