Professional Credentials

Employment History

Boston College — Homepage

2021 – Current | Professor, Teaching, Curriculum, and Society Lynch School of Education and Human Development.

2022 – Current | Affiliated Faculty Member Formative Education Department, Lynch School of Education and Human Development.

2016 – 2021 | Associate Professor, Teaching, Curriculum, and Society Lynch School of Education and Human Development.

Harvard University — Homepage

2022 – 2023 | Visiting Scholar Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Hosted by Drs. Howard Gardner and Wendy Fisher.

Seoul National University — Homepage

Fall 2022 | Visiting Professor English Education Department, College of Education, Seoul, South Korea.

University of South Florida — Homepage

2015 – 2016 | Core Faculty Member Teacher Education Doctoral Program, College of Education.

2015 – 2016 | Affiliated Faculty Member Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.

2012 – 2016 | Associate Professor Foreign Language Education/ESOL/SLA, Department of Teaching and Learning.

2012 – 2013 | Director Second Language Acquisition/Instructional Technology Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program.

2006 – 2012 | Assistant Professor Foreign Language Education/ESOL/SLA/IT, Secondary Education Department.

University of Pennsylvania — Homepage

2014 Spring | Visiting Scholar Graduate School of Education.

University of Cambridge — Homepage

2013 Fall | Visiting Scholar Faculty of Education, United Kingdom. Hosted by Drs. Michael Evans and Linda Fisher.

University of New Mexico — Homepage

2005 – 2006 | Postdoctoral Fellow Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, College of Education.

Entrepreneurship & Founding

1997 – 2000 | Founder and President Tip-Top Kids English School, Seoul, South Korea. Managed professional development for teachers and developed comprehensive EFL programs, storytelling curricula, and musical presentations for a student body of nearly 1,500 students. Also served as Chief EFL Teacher at Kwang-hee Elementary School.

1993 – 1997 | Academic Director Neo English Academy with Lego Dacta, Seoul, South Korea.

Awards and Honors

2025 | Best Paper of the Year Award Korean American Educational Research Association (KAERA).

2021 | Best Paper of the Year Award American Educational Research Association (AERA), Online Teaching and Learning SIG.

2016 | Best Article of the Year Journal of Second Language Writing.

1998 | Letter of Appreciation 15th President of the Republic of Korea, Kim Dae-jung.

Certificates

1996 | International Certificate in Teaching English to Children Heinemann Publishing Co., United Kingdom.

1988 | National Certificate (Level 2) Teaching English in Secondary Education (Grades 7–12), Republic of Korea.