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Center Graduate Students: Kaia Simon Power
Kaia Simon Power is a Ph.D. student in the Center for Writing Studies in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Contact Information
338 English Building | MC-718
simonpo2@illinois.edu
Biographical Statement
Kaia Simon Power recently moved to Illinois from Wisconsin, where she was a student and teacher. She earned a BA in English Education from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire and then taught literature and composition in the Eau Claire public schools for a total of eight years. After teaching middle school, then high school, she followed the next logical step and went on to college: she is pursuing a PhD in English, with an emphasis on Writing Studies. Kaia is currently serving as the Assistant Director for the Undergraduate Rhetoric Program at UIUC.
Research Interests
Composition Theory, Gender and Women's Studies, Literacy Studies, Pedagogy and Teacher Education
Courses Taught
- Rhetoric 105: Principles of Composition