Joshua M. Paiz

Biography

Joshua is a lecturer in the writing program at NYU Shanghai, where he joined the faculty in Fall 2015. He also represents contract faculty on the university senate and contract faculty senators’ council. Before coming to NYU Shanghai, he held instructional and administrative positions with Purdue University, and instructional positions with The American Language Institute, the University of Toledo, and Wuhan University. He holds a Ph.D. in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) from Purdue University. Dr. Paiz ’s research interests include second language learning/teaching, identity and critical issues in language teaching, and second language writing. His work has appeared in The Journal of Second Language Writing, TESOL Journal, The Journal of Language and Sexuality, The Asian EFL Journal, and through a variety of other professional outlets. His recent projects include a curriculum support project designed at fostering scientific literacy skills through materials creation for new scientific writers in NYU Shanghai’s first-year science program. He is also currently working on an autoethnographic project examining the use of cognitive affordances in Chinese-as-a-second-language computer-mediated communication exchanges. He and some of his Language, Identity, and World Englishes students recently presented their research on queer identities in China English contact literature at the 2017 meeting of the International Association of World Englishes. He is a member of TESOL International, Inc., the American Association of Applied Linguistics, and the National Council of the Teachers of English.

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