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Amy Shinabarger is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Applied Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University (ASU), affiliated with CISA on the Polytechnic campus. She teaches first-year composition, persuasive writing, and writing for professional contexts to a diverse student body including international learners.
Her educational background is fully rooted at ASU, where she earned her degrees in Journalism and English with specializations in linguistics, rhetoric, and composition.
- Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics), Arizona State University, 2003
- M.A. in English (Linguistics), Arizona State University, 1998
- B.A. in Journalism, Arizona State University, 1996
Shinabarger's research is driven by a Freirian philosophy of education as a tool for social change. Her primary interests include Second Language Writing, Basic Writing, Writing Program Administration, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, and Popular Culture Studies, with a focus on music and body modification. She investigates how language functions as a site of power and identity negotiation.
There are no listed publications or awards in the available text, but her long-standing teaching career and prior faculty appointments at the University of Puerto Rico and California State University, Northridge demonstrate sustained academic engagement.
She advises on writing pedagogy and curriculum development, particularly for multilingual and underprepared writers, though no formal advisees are listed. There is no mention of grants, research labs, or collaborative teams in the provided material.