Sophia Sarigianides, Ph.D., associate professor of English, gave the closing keynote address of the Western Mass Writing Project Spring Symposium, held March 28 at the University’s Horace Mann Center.
This year’s Symposium theme is “Instruments in a Common Band: Voice, Identity, and Respectful Dialogue.”
The University’s coordinator of secondary English, Dr. Sarigianides studies the effects of constructs of adolescence in teacher thinking and in representations of “young adults” in young adult literature, as well as the role of race in English teaching. Recent research includes an ongoing examination of white teachers’ efforts at anti-racist pedagogy in middle and high school teaching.