In my master’s degree, we began our first semester with a required pedagogy course, meant to orient us to the world of teaching first-year writing: with the understanding that we would serve as instructors of record the following year. As those who know me well can attest, I am quick to admit that I was deeply afraid of the concept of teaching, for two primary reasons. The first was guided by a set of assumptions about the classroom that arose from my prior experience as an undergraduate student––essentially that the instructor was the center, the students were the auxiliary, and…
Author: Molly Ryan
Molly Ryan
Molly Ryan (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech, where she is Chair of the Graduate Honor System and Director of the AOGP. Molly teaches technical writing, first-year writing, and writing and social justice.